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RHSA-2021:0537: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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):

  • kernel: locking issue in drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c can lead to an use-after-free (CVE-2020-29661)
  • kernel: performance counters race condition use-after-free (CVE-2020-14351)
  • kernel: ICMP rate limiting can be used for DNS poisoning attack (CVE-2020-25705) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Bug Fix(es):
  • kernel-rt: update RT source tree to the RHEL-8.3.z2 source tree (BZ#1908433) Related CVEs:
  • CVE-2020-14351: kernel: performance counters race condition use-after-free
  • CVE-2020-25705: kernel: ICMP rate limiting can be used for DNS poisoning attack
  • CVE-2020-29661: kernel: locking issue in drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c can lead to an use-after-free
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