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RHSA-2015:2552-01 -- Redhat kernel, python-perf, perf

ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:501723Date: (C)2015-12-23   (M)2024-02-19
Class: PATCHFamily: unix




The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. * It was found that the x86 ISA is prone to a denial of service attack inside a virtualized environment in the form of an infinite loop in the microcode due to the way delivering of benign exceptions such as #AC and #DB is handled. A privileged user inside a guest could use these flaws to create denial of service conditions on the host kernel. Red Hat would like to thank Ben Serebrin of Google Inc. for reporting the CVE-2015-5307 issue. This update also fixes the following bugs: * On Intel Xeon v5 platforms, the processor frequency was always tied to the highest possible frequency. Switching p-states on these client platforms failed. This update sets the idle frequency, busy frequency, and processor frequency values by determining the range and adjusting the minimal and maximal percent limit values. Now, switching p-states on the aforementioned client platforms proceeds successfully. * Due to a validation error of in-kernel memory-mapped I/O tracing, a VM became previously unresponsive when connected to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor. The provided patch fixes this bug by dropping the check in MMIO handler, and a VM continues running as expected. * Due to retry-able command errors, the NVMe driver previously leaked I/O descriptors and DMA mappings. As a consequence, the kernel could become unresponsive during the hot-unplug operation if a driver was removed. This update fixes the driver memory leak bug on command retries, and the kernel no longer hangs in this situation. * The hybrid_dma_data function was not initialized before use, which caused an invalid memory access when hot-plugging a PCI card. As a consequence, a kernel oops occurred. The provided patch makes sure hybrid_dma_data is initialized before use, and the kernel oops no longer occurs in this situation. * When running PowerPC KVM guests and the host was experiencing a lot of page faults, for example because it was running low on memory, the host sometimes triggered an incorrect kind of interrupt in the guest: a data storage exception instead of a data segment exception. This caused a kernel panic of the PPC KVM guest. With this update, the host kernel synthesizes a segment fault if the corresponding Segment Lookaside Buffer lookup fails, which prevents the kernel panic from occurring. * The kernel accessed an incorrect area of the khugepaged process causing Logical Partitioning to become unresponsive, and an oops occurred in medlp5. The backported upstream patch prevents an LPAR hang, and the oops no longer occurs. * When the sctp module was loaded and a route to an association endpoint was removed after receiving an Out-of-The-Blue chunk but before incrementing the "dropped because of missing route" SNMP statistic, a Null Pointer Dereference kernel panic previously occurred. This update fixes the race condition between OOTB response and route removal. * The cpuscaling test of the certification test suite previously failed due to a rounding bug in the intel-pstate driver. This bug has been fixed and the cpuscaling test now passes. All kernel users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Platform:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Product:
kernel
python-perf
perf
Reference:
RHSA-2015:2552-01
CVE-2015-5307
CVE-2015-8104
CVE    2
CVE-2015-5307
CVE-2015-8104
CPE    5
cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
cpe:/a:perf:perf
cpe:/a:python-perf:python-perf
...

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