RHSA-2015:2636High

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Published
December 15, 2015
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (5)

CVE-2015-2925 →CVE-2015-5307 →CVE-2015-7613 →CVE-2015-7872 →CVE-2015-8104 →

📋 Description

CVE-2015-2925 — Kernel: vfs: Do not allow escaping from bind mounts CVE-2015-5307 — virt: guest to host DoS by triggering an infinite loop in microcode via #AC exception CVE-2015-7613 — kernel: Unauthorized access to IPC objects with SysV shm CVE-2015-7872 — kernel: Keyrings crash triggerable by unprivileged user CVE-2015-8104 — virt: guest to host DoS by triggering an infinite loop in microcode via #DB exception

🎯 Affected products188

  • 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-0:2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • kernel-0:2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • kernel-bootwrapper-0:2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.32-573.12.1.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

🔗 References (8)