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Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security
impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base
score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each
vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which
enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism
requirements.
Security Fix(es) :
* A flaw named SegmentSmack was found in the way the Linux kernel
handled specially crafted TCP packets. A remote attacker could use
this flaw to trigger time and calculation expensive calls to
tcp_collapse_ofo_queue() and tcp_prune_ofo_queue() functions by
sending specially modified packets within ongoing TCP sessions which
could lead to a CPU saturation and hence a denial of service on the
system. Maintaining the denial of service condition requires
continuous two-way TCP sessions to a reachable open port, thus the
attacks cannot be performed using spoofed IP addresses.
(CVE-2018-5390)
Red Hat would like to thank Juha-Matti Tilli (Aalto University -
Department of Communications and Networking and Nokia Bell Labs) for
reporting this issue.
Bug Fix(es) :
* The kernel-rt packages have been upgraded to the 3.10.0-693.39.1
source tree, which provides a number of bug fixes over the previous
version. (BZ# 1616431)
* Previously, preemption was enabled too early after a context switch.
If a task was migrated to another CPU after a context switch, a
mismatch between CPU and runqueue during load balancing sometimes
occurred. Consequently, a runnable task on an idle CPU failed to run,
and the operating system became unresponsive. This update disables
preemption in the schedule_tail() function. As a result, CPU migration
during post-schedule processing no longer occurs, which prevents the
above mismatch. The operating system no longer hangs due to this bug.
(BZ#1618466)
Max CVSS | 0 |
Min CVSS | 0 |
Total Count | 2 |
| ID | CVSS | Summary | Last (major) update | Published |
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