Synopsis: Important: kernel security and bug fix update Advisory ID: SLSA-2019:1488-1 Issue Date: 2019-06-17 CVE Numbers: CVE-2019-11477 CVE-2019-11478 CVE-2019-11479 CVE-2019-3896 -- Security Fix(es): * An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's networking subsystem processed TCP Selective Acknowledgment (SACK) segments. While processing SACK segments, the Linux kernel's socket buffer (SKB) data structure becomes fragmented. Each fragment is about TCP maximum segment size (MSS) bytes. To efficiently process SACK blocks, the Linux kernel merges multiple fragmented SKBs into one, potentially overflowing the variable holding the number of segments. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the Linux kernel by sending a crafted sequence of SACK segments on a TCP connection with small value of TCP MSS, resulting in a denial of service (DoS). (CVE-2019-11477) * kernel: Double free in lib/idr.c (CVE-2019-3896) * Kernel: tcp: excessive resource consumption while processing SACK blocks allows remote denial of service (CVE-2019-11478) * Kernel: tcp: excessive resource consumption for TCP connections with low MSS allows remote denial of service (CVE-2019-11479) Bug Fix(es): * MDS mitigations not enabled on Intel Skylake CPUs * kernel does not disable SMT with mds=full,nosmt * md_clear flag missing from /proc/cpuinfo -- SL6 x86_64 kernel-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.x86_64.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.x86_64.rpm perf-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.x86_64.rpm perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.i686.rpm perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.x86_64.rpm python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.i686.rpm python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.x86_64.rpm python-perf-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.x86_64.rpm i386 kernel-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.i686.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.i686.rpm perf-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.i686.rpm perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.i686.rpm python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.i686.rpm python-perf-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.i686.rpm noarch kernel-abi-whitelists-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.noarch.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.noarch.rpm kernel-firmware-2.6.32-754.15.3.el6.noarch.rpm - Scientific Linux Development Team