RHSA-2020:0174: Important: kernel-alt security and bug fix update

First published: Tue Jan 21 2020(Updated: )

The kernel-alt packages provide the Linux kernel version 4.x.<br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> Kernel: speculative bounds check bypass store (CVE-2018-3693)</li> <li> kernel: Use-after-free due to race condition in AF_PACKET implementation (CVE-2018-18559)</li> <li> kernel: Heap overflow in mwifiex_update_bss_desc_with_ie function in marvell/mwifiex/scan.c (CVE-2019-3846)</li> <li> kernel: af_alg_release() in crypto/af_alg.c neglects to set a NULL value for a certain structure member, which leads to a use-after-free in sockfs_setattr (CVE-2019-8912)</li> <li> kernel: Heap overflow in mwifiex_uap_parse_tail_ies function in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/ie.c (CVE-2019-10126)</li> <li> kernel: Count overflow in FUSE request leading to use-after-free issues. (CVE-2019-11487)</li> <li> kernel: heap overflow in mwifiex_update_vs_ie() function of Marvell WiFi driver (CVE-2019-14816)</li> <li> kernel: buffer overflow in cfg80211_mgd_wext_giwessid in net/wireless/wext-sme.c (CVE-2019-17133)</li> <li> kernel: heap overflow in mwifiex_set_uap_rates() function of Marvell Wifi Driver leading to DoS (CVE-2019-14814)</li> <li> kernel: heap-overflow in mwifiex_set_wmm_params() function of Marvell WiFi driver leading to DoS (CVE-2019-14815)</li> <li> kernel: (powerpc) incomplete Spectre-RSB mitigation leads to information exposure (CVE-2019-18660)</li> For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.<br>Bug Fix(es):<br><li> Kernel panic on job cleanup, related to SyS_getdents64 (BZ#1702057)</li> <li> Kernel modules generated incorrectly when system is localized to non-English language (BZ#1705285)</li> <li> RHEL-Alt-7.6 - Fixup tlbie vs store ordering issue on POWER9 (BZ#1756270)</li>

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