RHSA-2017:2437HighCVSS 8.6

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Published
August 8, 2017
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (4)

CVE-2015-8970 →CVE-2016-10200 →CVE-2017-2647 →CVE-2017-8797 →

📋 Description

CVE-2015-8970 — kernel: crypto: GPF in lrw_crypt caused by null-deref CVE-2016-10200 — kernel: l2tp: Race condition in the L2TPv3 IP encapsulation feature CVE-2017-2647 — kernel: Null pointer dereference in search_keyring CVE-2017-8797 — kernel: NFSv4 server does not properly validate layout type when processing NFSv4 pNFS LAYOUTGET operand

🎯 Affected products115

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.3)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.3)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-bootwrapper-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-bootwrapper-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.3)
  • kernel-debug-devel-0:3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

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