The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fix: * kernel: Memory corruption due to incorrect socket cloning * kernel: Unprivileged users able to inspect kernel stacks of arbitrary tasks * kernel: Faulty computation of numberic bounds in the BPF verifier For more details about the security issue, including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page listed in the References section. Bug Fix and Enhancement: * kernel fuse invalidates cached attributes during reads * [NetApp-FC-NVMe] RHEL7.6: nvme reset gets hung indefinitely * Memory reclaim deadlock calling __sock_create after memalloc_noio_save * hardened usercopy is causing crash * Backport: xfrm: policy: init locks early * AWS m5 instance type loses NVMe mounted volumes [was: Unable to Mount StatefulSet PV in AWS EBS] * RHEL 7.6 running on a VirtualBox guest with a GUI has a mouse problem * Kernel bug report in cgroups on heavily contested 3.10 node * [PCIe] SHPC probe crash on Non-ACPI/Non-SHPC ports * [Cavium 7.7 Feat] qla2xxx: Update to latest upstream. * Regression in lpfc and the CNE1000 adapters that no longer initialize * [csiostor] call trace after command: modprobe csiostor * libceph: fall back to sendmsg for slab pages * Deadlock between stop_one_cpu_nowait and stop_two_cpus * Soft lockups occur when the sd driver passes a device size of 1 sector to string_get_size * [RHEL7.7] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffffffffff * RHEL7.6 - powerpc/pseries: Disable CPU hotplug across migrations / powerpc/rtas: Fix a potential race between CPU-Offline amp; Migration * blk-mq: fix corruption with direct issue * [RHEL7][patch] iscsi driver can block reboot/shutdown * [DELL EMC 7.6 BUG] Unable to create-namespace over Dell NVDIMM-N * efi_bgrt_init fails to ioremap error during boot * Unable to mount a share on kernel- 3.10.0-957.el7. The share can be mounted on kernel-3.10.0-862.14.4.el7 * System crash with RIP nfs_readpage_async+0x43 -- BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference Users of kernel are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add this enhancement.