[LU-13250] kernel update [RHEL8.1 4.18.0-147.5.1.el8_1]

Related — Tue, 7 Apr 2020 18:43:21 +0000

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1.

Security Fix(es):

kernel: heap overflow in mwifiex_update_vs_ie() function of Marvell WiFi driver (CVE-2019-14816)
kernel: heap-based buffer overflow in mwifiex_process_country_ie() function in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c (CVE-2019-14895)
kernel: heap overflow in marvell/mwifiex/tdls.c (CVE-2019-14901)
kernel: rtl_p2p_noa_ie in drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/ps.c in the Linux kernel lacks a certain upper-bound check, leading to a buffer overflow (CVE-2019-17666)
kernel: heap overflow in mwifiex_set_uap_rates() function of Marvell Wifi Driver leading to DoS (CVE-2019-14814)
kernel: heap-overflow in mwifiex_set_wmm_params() function of Marvell WiFi driver leading to DoS (CVE-2019-14815)
kernel: incomplete fix for race condition between mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and core dumping in CVE-2019-11599 (CVE-2019-14898)
Kernel: KVM: export MSR_IA32_TSX_CTRL to guest - incomplete fix for TAA (CVE-2019-11135) (CVE-2019-19338)

Bug Fix(es):

[Azure][8.1] Include patch "PCI: hv: Avoid use of hv_pci_dev->pci_slot after freeing it" (BZ#1764635)
block layer: update to v5.3 (BZ#1777766)
backport xfs: fix missing ILOCK unlock when xfs_setattr_nonsize fails due to EDQUOT (BZ#1778692)
Backport important bugfixes from upstream post 5.3 (BZ#1778693)
LUN path recovery issue with Emulex LPe32002 HBA in RHEL 8.0 Server during storage side cable pull testing (BZ#1781108)
cifs tasks enter D state and error out with "CIFS VFS: SMB signature verification returned error = -5" (BZ#1781110)
Update CIFS to linux 5.3 (except RDMA and conflicts) (BZ#1781113)
RHEL8.0 - Regression to RHEL7.6 by changing force_latency found during RHEL8.0 validation for SAP HANA on POWER (BZ#1781114)
blk-mq: overwirte performance drops on real MQ device (BZ#1782181)

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