RHSA-2015:0290HighCVSS 6.2

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published
March 5, 2015
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (11)

CVE-2014-3690 →CVE-2014-3940 →CVE-2014-7825 →CVE-2014-7826 →CVE-2014-8086 →CVE-2014-8160 →CVE-2014-8172 →CVE-2014-8173 →CVE-2014-8709 →CVE-2014-8884 →CVE-2015-0274 →

📋 Description

CVE-2014-3690 — kernel: kvm: vmx: invalid host cr4 handling across vm entries CVE-2014-3940 — Kernel: missing check during hugepage migration CVE-2014-7825 — kernel: insufficient syscall number validation in perf and ftrace subsystems CVE-2014-7826 — kernel: insufficient syscall number validation in perf and ftrace subsystems CVE-2014-8086 — Kernel: fs: ext4 race condition CVE-2014-8160 — kernel: iptables restriction bypass if a protocol handler kernel module not loaded CVE-2014-8172 — kernel: soft lockup on aio CVE-2014-8173 — kernel: NULL pointer dereference in madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) support CVE-2014-8709 — kernel: net: mac80211: plain text information leak CVE-2014-8884 — kernel: usb: buffer overflow in ttusb-dec CVE-2015-0274 — kernel: xfs: replacing remote attributes memory corruption

🎯 Affected products152

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-229.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-229.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-229.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-229.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-229.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-229.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:3.10.0-229.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:3.10.0-229.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:3.10.0-229.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:3.10.0-229.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • kernel-bootwrapper-0:3.10.0-229.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-229.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-229.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-229.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
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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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