RHSA-2020:0834: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

First published: Tue Mar 17 2020(Updated: )

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.<br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> kernel: Count overflow in FUSE request leading to use-after-free issues. (CVE-2019-11487)</li> <li> kernel: rtl_p2p_noa_ie in drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/ps.c in the Linux kernel lacks a certain upper-bound check, leading to a buffer overflow (CVE-2019-17666)</li> <li> Kernel: KVM: export MSR_IA32_TSX_CTRL to guest - incomplete fix for TAA (CVE-2019-11135) (CVE-2019-19338)</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> RHEL7.7 - default idle mishandles lazy irq state (BZ#1767620)</li> <li> Sanitize MM backported code for RHEL7 (BZ#1768386)</li> <li> A bio with a flush and write to an md device can be lost and never complete by the md layer (BZ#1773482)</li> <li> [FJ7.7 Bug]: [REG] Read from /proc/net/if_inet6 never stop. (BZ#1778084)</li> <li> RHEL7.7 - zfcp: fix reaction on bit error threshold notification (BZ#1778691)</li> <li> RHEL7.7 Snapshot3 - Kernel Panic when running LTP mm test on s390x (BZ#1780035)</li> <li> Leak in cachefiles driver (BZ#1780149)</li> <li> VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of loop0 when encountering duplicate directory inodes (BZ#1781159)</li> <li> Allocation failure in md's r10buf_pool_alloc function leads to a crash from accessing uninitialized pointers (BZ#1781584)</li> <li> [Hyper-V][RHEL7.6]Hyper-V guest waiting indefinitely for RCU callback when removing a mem cgroup (BZ#1783177)</li> <li> A bnx2fc abort attempt doesn't timeout from miscalculation causing a huge timeout value (BZ#1784824)</li> <li> scsi: libiscsi: fall back to sendmsg for slab pages (BZ#1784826)</li> <li> RHEL7.7 - kernel: avoid cpu yield in SMT environment (BZ#1787558)</li> <li> RHEL7.6 - kernel: jump label transformation performance (BZ#1787559)</li> <li> drm radeon power management warning on VERDE cards (BZ#1789744)</li> <li> Duplicate enum value in include/linux/blk_types.h (BZ#1791781)</li> <li> [HPE 7.7 Bug] hpsa: bug fix for reset issue (BZ#1791782)</li> <li> System Crash on vport creation (NPIV on FCoE) (BZ#1791825)</li> <li> [Hyper-V][RHEL 7.8] Four Mellanox Patches needed for kernels that have that have SRIOV (BZ#1792371)</li> <li> WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 2049 at mm/slub.c:2296 ___slab_alloc+0x508/0x520 (BZ#1793086)</li> <li> fio with ioengine=pmemblk on fsdax failed (BZ#1793088)</li> <li> [HPE 7.7 Bug] hpsa: bug fixes (BZ#1793579)</li> <li> perf top -p PID does not show anything (BZ#1793581)</li> <li> Delay in RT task scheduled. Incorrect nr_scheduled value. (BZ#1796261)</li> <li> A directory on a gfs2 filesystem appears corrupt on nodeB after nodeA renames the directory (BZ#1796431)</li> <li> ixgbevf interface goes down on hypervisor and causes outage (BZ#1796798)</li> <li> Can't enable virt-ssbd on some AMD hosts (BZ#1797511)</li> <li> [HPEMC 7.8 BUG] x86/boot/64: Avoid mapping reserved ranges in early page tables (BZ#1798163)</li> Enhancement(s):<br><li> scsi: qla2xxx: Fix panic in qla_dfs_tgt_counters_show' (BZ#1791595)</li>

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