RHSA-2015:0285High

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Published
March 3, 2015
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2014-7841 →

📋 Description

CVE-2014-7841 — kernel: net: sctp: NULL pointer dereference in af->from_addr_param on malformed packet

🎯 Affected products102

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Compute Node Optional EUS (v. 6.4)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node EUS (v. 6.4)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.4)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Compute Node Optional EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-bootwrapper-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Compute Node Optional EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 6.4)
  • kernel-debug-devel-0:2.6.32-358.56.1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.4)
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✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

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