rhsa-2019_2865
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat
Published
2019-09-23 12:18
Modified
2024-11-05 21:25
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: kpatch-patch security update

Notes

Topic
An update for kpatch-patch is now available for RHEL-7.6. 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.
Details
This is a kernel live patch module which can be loaded by the kpatch command line utility to modify the code of a running kernel. Security Fix(es): * A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Linux kernel's vhost functionality that translates virtqueue buffers to IOVs, logged the buffer descriptors during migration. A privileged guest user able to pass descriptors with invalid length to the host when migration is underway, could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the host. (CVE-2019-14835) 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.
Terms of Use
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