Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Important

A race condition was found in the Linux kernel's watch queue due to a missing lock in the pipe_resize_ring(). The race condition occurs when a thread uses ioctl(IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_SIZE) to resize the pipe buffer and free the old pipe buffer, while another thread uses keyctl() to trigger a notification in the watch queue, calling post_one_notification() and accessing the freed pipe buffer. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system.

CWE-820 - Missing Synchronization

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s driver for the ASIX AX88179_178A-based USB 2.0/3.0 Gigabit Ethernet Devices. The vulnerability contains multiple out-of-bounds reads and possible out-of-bounds writes.

CWE-119 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel Intel’s iSMT SMBus host controller driver in the way it handled the I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_PROC_CALL case (via the ioctl I2C_SMBUS) with malicious input data. In particular, the userspace controllable "data->block[0]" variable was not capped to a number between 0-255 and then used as the size of a memcpy, thus possibly writing beyond the end of dma_buffer. This flaw could allow a privileged local user to crash the system.

CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')