Topic: An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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.

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Details: The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fix(es): * kernel: heap overflow in mwifiex_update_vs_ie() function of Marvell WiFi driver (CVE-2019-14816) * kernel: heap-based buffer overflow in mwifiex_process_country_ie() function in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c (CVE-2019-14895) * kernel: heap overflow in marvell/mwifiex/tdls.c (CVE-2019-14901) * kernel: buffer overflow in cfg80211_mgd_wext_giwessid in net/wireless/wext-sme.c (CVE-2019-17133) * kernel: incomplete fix for race condition between mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and core dumping in CVE-2019-11599 (CVE-2019-14898) 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): * [Azure][7.8] Include patch "PCI: hv: Avoid use of hv_pci_dev->pci_slot after freeing it" (BZ#1766089) * [Hyper-V][RHEL7.8] When accelerated networking is enabled on RedHat, network interface(eth0) moved to new network namespace does not obtain IP address. (BZ#1766093) * [Azure][RHEL 7.6] hv_vmbus probe pass-through GPU card failed (BZ#1766097) * SMB3: Do not error out on large file transfers if server responds with STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES (BZ#1767621) * Since RHEL commit 5330f5d09820 high load can cause dm-multipath path failures (BZ#1770113) * Hard lockup in free_one_page()->_raw_spin_lock() because sosreport command is reading from /proc/pagetypeinfo (BZ#1770732) * patchset for x86/atomic: Fix smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic() (BZ#1772812) * fix compat statfs64() returning EOVERFLOW for when _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 (BZ#1775678) * Guest crash after load cpuidle-haltpoll driver (BZ#1776289) * RHEL 7.7 long I/O stalls with bnx2fc from not masking off scope bits of retry delay value (BZ#1776290) * Multiple "mv" processes hung on a gfs2 filesystem (BZ#1777297) * Moving Egress IP will result in conntrack sessions being DESTROYED (BZ#1779564) * core: backports from upstream (BZ#1780033) * kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c:482! (BZ#1780148) * Race between tty_open() and flush_to_ldisc() using the tty_struct->driver_data field. (BZ#1780163)

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