-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 ==================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Important: kernel-rt security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:1630-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1630 Issue date: 2018-05-21 CVE Names: CVE-2018-3639 ==================================================================== 1. Summary: An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64 3. Description: The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements. Security Fix(es): * An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions (a commonly used performance optimization). It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the fact that memory read from address to which a recent memory write has occurred may see an older value and subsequently cause an update into the microprocessor's data cache even for speculatively executed instructions that never actually commit (retire). As a result, an unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to read privileged memory by conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks. (CVE-2018-3639) Note: This issue is present in hardware and cannot be fully fixed via software update. The updated kernel packages provide software side of the mitigation for this hardware issue. To be fully functional, up-to-date CPU microcode applied on the system is required. Please refer to References section for further information about this issue, CPU microcode requirements and the potential performance impact. Red Hat would like to thank Ken Johnson (Microsoft Security Response Center) and Jann Horn (Google Project Zero) for reporting this issue. 4. Solution: 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. 5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 1566890 - CVE-2018-3639 hw: cpu: speculative store bypass 6. Package List: Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV (v. 7): Source: kernel-rt-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.src.rpm noarch: kernel-rt-doc-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.noarch.rpm x86_64: kernel-rt-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-kvm-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-devel-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-kvm-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-kvm-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime (v. 7): Source: kernel-rt-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.src.rpm noarch: kernel-rt-doc-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.noarch.rpm x86_64: kernel-rt-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-devel-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/ 7. References: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3639 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/ssbd 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is. 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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.
The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables
fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.
Security Fix(es):
* An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor
designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions
(a commonly used performance optimization). It relies on the presence of a
precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as
the fact that memory read from address to which a recent memory write has
occurred may see an older value and subsequently cause an update into the
microprocessor's data cache even for speculatively executed instructions
that never actually commit (retire). As a result, an unprivileged attacker
could use this flaw to read privileged memory by conducting targeted cache
side-channel attacks. (CVE-2018-3639)
Note: This issue is present in hardware and cannot be fully fixed via
software update. The updated kernel packages provide software side of the
mitigation for this hardware issue. To be fully functional, up-to-date CPU
microcode applied on the system is required. Please refer to References
section for further information about this issue, CPU microcode
requirements and the potential performance impact.
Red Hat would like to thank Ken Johnson (Microsoft Security Response
Center) and Jann Horn (Google Project Zero) for reporting this issue.
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3639 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/ssbd
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV (v. 7):
Source:
kernel-rt-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.src.rpm
noarch:
kernel-rt-doc-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64:
kernel-rt-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-kvm-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-devel-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-kvm-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-kvm-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime (v. 7):
Source:
kernel-rt-3.10.0-862.3.2.rt56.808.el7.src.rpm
noarch:
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An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64
1566890 - CVE-2018-3639 hw: cpu: speculative store bypass
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