RHSA-2015:0864High

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Published
April 21, 2015
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (9)

CVE-2014-3215 →CVE-2014-3690 →CVE-2014-7825 →CVE-2014-7826 →CVE-2014-8171 →CVE-2014-8884 →CVE-2014-9529 →CVE-2014-9584 →CVE-2015-1421 →

📋 Description

CVE-2014-3215 — policycoreutils: local privilege escalation via seunshare CVE-2014-3690 — kernel: kvm: vmx: invalid host cr4 handling across vm entries 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-2014-8171 — kernel: memcg: OOM handling DoS CVE-2014-8884 — kernel: usb: buffer overflow in ttusb-dec CVE-2014-9529 — kernel: use-after-free during key garbage collection CVE-2014-9584 — kernel: isofs: unchecked printing of ER records CVE-2015-1421 — kernel: net: slab corruption from use after free on INIT collisions

🎯 Affected products182

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • kernel-bootwrapper-0:2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
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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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