RHSA-2018:0151HighCVSS 7.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Published
January 25, 2018
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (6)

CVE-2017-7472 →CVE-2017-12192 →CVE-2017-12193 →CVE-2017-15649 →CVE-2015-8539 →CVE-2017-5753 →

📋 Description

CVE-2015-8539 — kernel: local privesc in key management CVE-2017-5753 — hw: cpu: speculative execution bounds-check bypass CVE-2017-7472 — kernel: keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring() leaks thread keyrings CVE-2017-12192 — kernel: NULL pointer dereference due to KEYCTL_READ on negative key CVE-2017-12193 — kernel: Null pointer dereference due to incorrect node-splitting in assoc_array implementation CVE-2017-15649 — kernel: Use-after-free in the af_packet.c

🎯 Affected products169

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • kernel-bootwrapper-0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-bootwrapper-0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
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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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