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- CVEs with nessus.description==Updated kernel-rt packages that fix two security issues and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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) :
* kernel: Buffer over-read in keyring subsystem allows exposing potentially sensitive information to local attacker (CVE-2017-13305)
* Kernel: FPU state information leakage via lazy FPU restore (CVE-2018-3665)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Red Hat would like to thank Julian Stecklina (Amazon.de), Thomas Prescher (cyberus-technology.de), and Zdenek Sojka (sysgo.com) for reporting CVE-2018-3665.
Enhancement(s) :
* The kernel-rt packages have been upgraded to version 3.10.0-693.35.1.rt56.623, which provides a number of bug fixes over the previous version. (BZ#1579972)
Users of kernel-rt are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which add this enhancement.
The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
Max CVSS | 0 |
Min CVSS | 0 |
Total Count | 2 |
| ID | CVSS | Summary | Last (major) update | Published |
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