RHSA-2016:1033HighCVSS 5.4

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Published
May 12, 2016
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2016-3044 →CVE-2016-0758 →

📋 Description

CVE-2016-0758 — kernel: tags with indefinite length can corrupt pointers in asn1_find_indefinite_length() CVE-2016-3044 — kernel: Infinite loop vulnerability in KVM

🎯 Affected products169

  • 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-0:3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-0:3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-abi-whitelists-0:3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • kernel-bootwrapper-0:3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-bootwrapper-0:3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • kernel-debug-0:3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

🔗 References (4)