Medium RHSA-2018:1252 2 CVEs

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Published Sep 13, 2024 · Updated Jun 29, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 15

Release	Package	Fixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 5.9 AUS rhel_aus:5.9	kernel	0:2.6.18-348.39.1.el5
Red Hat · RHEL 5.9 AUS rhel_aus:5.9	kernel-debug	0:2.6.18-348.39.1.el5
Red Hat · RHEL 5.9 AUS rhel_aus:5.9	kernel-debug-debuginfo	0:2.6.18-348.39.1.el5
Red Hat · RHEL 5.9 AUS rhel_aus:5.9	kernel-debug-devel	0:2.6.18-348.39.1.el5
Red Hat · RHEL 5.9 AUS rhel_aus:5.9	kernel-debuginfo	0:2.6.18-348.39.1.el5
Red Hat · RHEL 5.9 AUS rhel_aus:5.9	kernel-debuginfo-common	0:2.6.18-348.39.1.el5
Red Hat · RHEL 5.9 AUS rhel_aus:5.9	kernel-devel	0:2.6.18-348.39.1.el5
Red Hat · RHEL 5.9 AUS rhel_aus:5.9	kernel-doc	0:2.6.18-348.39.1.el5
Red Hat · RHEL 5.9 AUS rhel_aus:5.9	kernel-headers	0:2.6.18-348.39.1.el5
Red Hat · RHEL 5.9 AUS rhel_aus:5.9	kernel-PAE	0:2.6.18-348.39.1.el5
Red Hat · RHEL 5.9 AUS rhel_aus:5.9	kernel-PAE-debuginfo	0:2.6.18-348.39.1.el5
Red Hat · RHEL 5.9 AUS rhel_aus:5.9	kernel-PAE-devel	0:2.6.18-348.39.1.el5
Red Hat · RHEL 5.9 AUS rhel_aus:5.9	kernel-xen	0:2.6.18-348.39.1.el5
Red Hat · RHEL 5.9 AUS rhel_aus:5.9	kernel-xen-debuginfo	0:2.6.18-348.39.1.el5
Red Hat · RHEL 5.9 AUS rhel_aus:5.9	kernel-xen-devel	0:2.6.18-348.39.1.el5

Vulnerabilities 2

Medium 5.6

CVE-2017-5715 Public exploit EPSS 73%

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may allow unauthorized disc…

Intel Microprocessors with Speculative Execution linux-raspi2 linux-hwe Debian Ubuntu Alpine

Jan 4, 2018
Unscored —

CVE-2013-2929

The Linux kernel before 3.12.2 does not properly use the get_dumpable function, which allows local users to bypass inte…

linux Debian

Dec 9, 2013

References

article
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
article
https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/speculativeexecution
report
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5715
report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1028148
report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1519780
advisory
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2018/rhsa-2018_1252.json
report
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2929
advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-2929
advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2929
advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5715
advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5715
article
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html
article
https://meltdownattack.com
article
https://spectreattack.com/