The vendor explicitly identifies these products as affected by this CVE.
- kernel as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- kernel-abi-whitelists as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- kernel-bootwrapper as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- kernel-debug as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- kernel-debug-devel as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- kernel-devel as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- kernel-doc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- kernel-firmware as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- kernel-headers as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- kernel-kdump as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- kernel-kdump-devel as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- kernel.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Summary
- A flaw was found in the mlx5e Traffic Control (TC) encapsulation logic in the net/mlx5e driver of the Linux kernel. The code responsible for invalidating encapsulation actions did not use the proper helper function to retrieve the correct encapsulation attribute, instead assuming the default attribute would suffice. When the post-action infrastructure was introduced, most users of the encap attribute were updated to call mlx5e_tc_get_encap_attr() to obtain the correct attribute; however, the invalidation path in mlx5e_invalidate_encap() was not updated accordingly. This could result in improper destruction of header modify actions and generate WARNINGS in the kernel log.
- Remediation
- For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
