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Red Hat: RHSA-2018:2003-01 Important: Kernel-RT Cache Attack Fix

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Calendar Grey June 26, 2018
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Crucial kernel-rt security and bug resolution patch released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to mitigate significant vulnerabilities.
An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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.

Summary

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, x86 AMD)
* kernel: Out-of-bounds access via an XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE xfrm Netlink message (CVE-2017-11600)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Red Hat would like to thank Ken Johnson (Microsoft Security Response Center) and Jann Horn (Google Project Zero) for reporting CVE-2018-3639.
Bug Fix(es):
* The kernel-rt packages have been upgraded to the 3.10.0-862.6.1 source tree, which provides a number of bug fixes over the previous version. (BZ#1576058)

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11600 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3639 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV (v. 7):
Source: kernel-rt-3.10.0-862.6.3.rt56.811.el7.src.rpm
noarch: kernel-rt-doc-3.10.0-862.6.3.rt56.811.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: kernel-rt-3.10.0-862.6.3.rt56.811.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-3.10.0-862.6.3.rt56.811.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.6.3.rt56.811.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.10.0-862.6.3.rt56.811.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-kvm-3.10.0-862.6.3.rt56.811.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.6.3.rt56.811.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.6.3.rt56.811.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-862.6.3.rt56.811.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-devel-3.10.0-862.6.3.rt56.811.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-kvm-3.10.0-862.6.3.rt56.811.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.6.3.rt56.811.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-3.10.0-862.6.3.rt56.811.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.6.3.rt56.811.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.10.0-862.6.3.rt56.811.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-kvm-3.10.0-862.6.3.rt56.811.el7.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-862.6.3.rt56.811.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime (v. 7):
Source: kernel-rt-3.10.0-862.6.3.rt56.811.el7.src.rpm
noarch:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2003-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2018-06-26

Topic

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.

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

Bugs Fixed

1474928 - CVE-2017-11600 kernel: Out-of-bounds access via an XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE xfrm Netlink message

1566890 - CVE-2018-3639 hw: cpu: speculative store bypass

1576058 - kernel-rt: update to the RHEL7.5.z batch#2 source tree

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