Security Vulnerabilities fixed in kernel-rt RHSA-2021:1070

Description

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: out-of-bounds read in libiscsi module (CVE-2021-27364) kernel: heap buffer overflow in the iSCSI subsystem (CVE-2021-27365) kernel: iscsi: unrestricted access to sessions and handles (CVE-2021-27363) kernel: out-of-bounds read in libiscsi module (CVE-2021-27364) kernel: heap buffer overflow in the iSCSI subsystem (CVE-2021-27365) kernel: iscsi: unrestricted access to sessions and handles (CVE-2021-27363) 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): RHEL7.9 Realtime crashes due to a blocked task detection. The blocked task is stuck in unregister_shrinker() where multiple tasks have taken the shrinker_rwsem and are fighting on a dentry's d_lockref lock rt_mutex. [kernel-rt] (BZ#1935557) kernel-rt: update to the latest RHEL7.9.z5 source tree (BZ#1939220) RHEL7.9 Realtime crashes due to a blocked task detection. The blocked task is stuck in unregister_shrinker() where multiple tasks have taken the shrinker_rwsem and are fighting on a dentry's d_lockref lock rt_mutex. [kernel-rt] (BZ#1935557) kernel-rt: update to the latest RHEL7.9.z5 source tree (BZ#1939220) SolutionFor 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.

Affected Applications

kernel-rt

CVE References

CVE-2021-27365 CVE-2021-27364 CVE-2021-27363

Other References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1070