RHSA-2015:1977Medium

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

Published
November 3, 2015
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2014-8559 →CVE-2015-5156 →

📋 Description

CVE-2014-8559 — kernel: fs: deadlock due to incorrect usage of rename_lock CVE-2015-5156 — kernel: buffer overflow with fraglist larger than MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 2 in virtio-net

🎯 Affected products13

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime (v. 7)
  • kernel-rt-0:3.10.0-229.20.1.rt56.141.14.el7_1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime (v. 7)
  • kernel-rt-0:3.10.0-229.20.1.rt56.141.14.el7_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime (v. 7)
  • kernel-rt-debug-0:3.10.0-229.20.1.rt56.141.14.el7_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime (v. 7)
  • kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-229.20.1.rt56.141.14.el7_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime (v. 7)
  • kernel-rt-debug-devel-0:3.10.0-229.20.1.rt56.141.14.el7_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime (v. 7)
  • kernel-rt-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-229.20.1.rt56.141.14.el7_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime (v. 7)
  • kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-0:3.10.0-229.20.1.rt56.141.14.el7_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime (v. 7)
  • kernel-rt-devel-0:3.10.0-229.20.1.rt56.141.14.el7_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime (v. 7)
  • kernel-rt-doc-0:3.10.0-229.20.1.rt56.141.14.el7_1.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime (v. 7)
  • kernel-rt-trace-0:3.10.0-229.20.1.rt56.141.14.el7_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime (v. 7)
  • kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-0:3.10.0-229.20.1.rt56.141.14.el7_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime (v. 7)
  • kernel-rt-trace-devel-0:3.10.0-229.20.1.rt56.141.14.el7_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime (v. 7)

✅ 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

🔗 References (6)