Red Hat Security Advisory

RHSA-2018:2645

kernel security update

Released 2018-09-04 · Red Hat rating Important · View on Red Hat →

Fixed in

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node EUS (v. 6.7) kernel-2.6.32-573.62.1.el6, kernel-abi-whitelists-2.6.32-573.62.1.el6, kernel-debug-2.6.32-573.62.1.el6 +6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional EUS (v. 6.7) python-perf-2.6.32-573.62.1.el6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7) kernel-2.6.32-573.62.1.el6, kernel-abi-whitelists-2.6.32-573.62.1.el6, kernel-bootwrapper-2.6.32-573.62.1.el6 +9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 6.7) python-perf-2.6.32-573.62.1.el6

Fixes 1 record

TI-2018-03923 CVE-2018-5390 · GHSA-grv8-gqh3-fmc9

Uncontrolled resource consumption in Linux Kernel

HIGH 71

Linux kernel versions 4.9+ can be forced to make very expensive calls to tcp_collapse_ofo_queue() and tcp_prune_ofo_queue() for every incoming packet which can lead to a denial of service.

CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5 Network No auth No interaction EPSS 0.71767 Published 2018-08-06 Partial fix CWE-400