The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2014:1281 advisory.

    The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux     operating system.

    * An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel's     system call auditing implementation. On a system with existing audit rules     defined, a local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to leak kernel     memory to user space or, potentially, crash the system. (CVE-2014-3917,     Moderate)

    This update also fixes the following bugs:

    * A bug in the mtip32xx driver could prevent the Micron P420m PCIe SSD     devices with unaligned I/O access from completing the submitted I/O     requests. This resulted in a livelock situation and rendered the Micron     P420m PCIe SSD devices unusable. To fix this problem, mtip32xx now checks     whether an I/O access is unaligned and if so, it uses the correct     semaphore. (BZ#1125776)

    * A series of patches has been backported to improve the functionality of     a touch pad on the latest Lenovo laptops in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
    (BZ#1122559)

    * Due to a bug in the bnx2x driver, a network adapter could be unable to     recover from EEH error injection. The network adapter had to be taken     offline and rebooted in order to function properly again. With this update,     the bnx2x driver has been corrected and network adapters now recover from     EEH errors as expected. (BZ#1107722)

    * Previously, if an hrtimer interrupt was delayed, all future pending     hrtimer events that were queued on the same processor were also delayed     until the initial hrtimer event was handled. This could cause all hrtimer     processing to stop for a significant period of time. To prevent this     problem, the kernel has been modified to handle all expired hrtimer events     when handling the initially delayed hrtimer event. (BZ#1113175)

    * A previous change to the nouveau driver introduced a bit shift error,     which resulted in a wrong display resolution being set with some models     of NVIDIA controllers. With this update, the erroneous code has been     corrected, and the affected NVIDIA controllers can now set the correct     display resolution. (BZ#1114869)

    * Due to a NULL pointer dereference bug in the be2net driver, the system     could experience a kernel oops and reboot when disabling a network adapter     after a permanent failure. This problem has been fixed by introducing a     flag to keep track of the setup state. The failing adapter can now be     disabled successfully without a kernel crash. (BZ#1122558)

    * Previously, the Huge Translation Lookaside Buffer (HugeTLB) allowed     access to huge pages access by default. However, huge pages may be     unsupported in some environments, such as a KVM guest on a PowerPC     architecture, and an attempt to access a huge page in memory would result     in a kernel oops. This update ensures that HugeTLB denies access to huge     pages if the huge pages are not supported on the system. (BZ#1122115)

    * If an NVMe device becomes ready but fails to create I/O queues, the nvme     driver creates a character device handle to manage such a device.
    Previously, a character device could be created before a device reference     counter was initialized, which resulted in a kernel oops. This problem has     been fixed by calling the relevant initialization function earlier in the     code. (BZ#1119720)

    * On some firmware versions of the BladeEngine 3 (BE3) controller,     interrupts remain disabled after a hardware reset. This was a problem for     all Emulex-based network adapters using such a BE3 controller because     these adapters would fail to recover from an EEH error if it occurred. To     resolve this problem, the be2net driver has been modified to enable the     interrupts in the eeh_resume handler explicitly. (BZ#1121712)

    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.

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RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2014:1281)

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