10 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
9.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
0.975 High
EPSS
Percentile
100.0%
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fix(es):
hw: cpu: speculative execution permission faults handling (CVE-2017-5754, x86 32-bit)
Kernel: error in exception handling leads to DoS (CVE-2018-8897)
kernel: nfsd: Incorrect handling of long RPC replies (CVE-2017-7645)
kernel: Use-after-free vulnerability in DCCP socket (CVE-2017-8824)
kernel: v4l2: disabled memory access protection mechanism allowing privilege escalation (CVE-2017-13166)
kernel: netfilter: use-after-free in tcpmss_mangle_packet function in net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c (CVE-2017-18017)
kernel: Stack information leak in the EFS element (CVE-2017-1000410)
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 Google Project Zero for reporting CVE-2017-5754; Nick Peterson (Everdox Tech LLC) and Andy Lutomirski for reporting CVE-2018-8897; Mohamed Ghannam for reporting CVE-2017-8824; and Armis Labs for reporting CVE-2017-1000410.
Bug Fix(es):
These updated kernel packages include also numerous bug fixes. Space precludes documenting all of these bug fixes in this advisory. See the bug fix descriptions in the related Knowledge Article: https://access.redhat.com/articles/3431591
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
RedHat | 6 | i686 | perf-debuginfo | < 2.6.32-696.28.1.el6 | perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.28.1.el6.i686.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | x86_64 | kernel-headers | < 2.6.32-696.28.1.el6 | kernel-headers-2.6.32-696.28.1.el6.x86_64.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | ppc64 | kernel-devel | < 2.6.32-696.28.1.el6 | kernel-devel-2.6.32-696.28.1.el6.ppc64.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | s390x | kernel-headers | < 2.6.32-696.28.1.el6 | kernel-headers-2.6.32-696.28.1.el6.s390x.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | i686 | python-perf | < 2.6.32-696.28.1.el6 | python-perf-2.6.32-696.28.1.el6.i686.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | s390x | kernel-devel | < 2.6.32-696.28.1.el6 | kernel-devel-2.6.32-696.28.1.el6.s390x.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | i686 | kernel-headers | < 2.6.32-696.28.1.el6 | kernel-headers-2.6.32-696.28.1.el6.i686.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | x86_64 | python-perf-debuginfo | < 2.6.32-696.28.1.el6 | python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.28.1.el6.x86_64.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | ppc64 | kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64 | < 2.6.32-696.28.1.el6 | kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64-2.6.32-696.28.1.el6.ppc64.rpm |
RedHat | 6 | i686 | kernel-debug-debuginfo | < 2.6.32-696.28.1.el6 | kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-696.28.1.el6.i686.rpm |
10 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
9.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
0.975 High
EPSS
Percentile
100.0%