RedHat: RHSA-2018-2396:01 Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update
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):
* Modern operating systems implement virtualization of physical memory to
efficiently use available system resources and provide inter-domain
protection through access control and isolation. The L1TF issue was found
in the way the x86 microprocessor designs have implemented speculative
execution of instructions (a commonly used performance optimisation) in
combination with handling of page-faults caused by terminated virtual to
physical address resolving process. As a result, an unprivileged attacker
could use this flaw to read privileged memory of the kernel or other
processes and/or cross guest/host boundaries to read host memory by
conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks. (CVE-2018-3620,
CVE-2018-3646)
* 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)
Red Hat would like to thank Intel OSSIRT (Intel.com) for reporting
CVE-2018-3620 and CVE-2018-3646 and 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 3.10.0-693.37.1 source
tree, which provides a number of bug fixes over the previous version.
(BZ#1599860)
Summary
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.
References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3620 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3639 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3646 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/L1TF
Package List
Red Hat MRG Realtime for RHEL 6 Server v.2:
Source:
kernel-rt-3.10.0-693.37.4.rt56.629.el6rt.src.rpm
noarch:
kernel-rt-doc-3.10.0-693.37.4.rt56.629.el6rt.noarch.rpm
kernel-rt-firmware-3.10.0-693.37.4.rt56.629.el6rt.noarch.rpm
x86_64:
kernel-rt-3.10.0-693.37.4.rt56.629.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-3.10.0-693.37.4.rt56.629.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.37.4.rt56.629.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.10.0-693.37.4.rt56.629.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.37.4.rt56.629.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-693.37.4.rt56.629.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-devel-3.10.0-693.37.4.rt56.629.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-3.10.0-693.37.4.rt56.629.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.37.4.rt56.629.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.10.0-693.37.4.rt56.629.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-vanilla-3.10.0-693.37.4.rt56.629.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-vanilla-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.37.4.rt56.629.el6rt.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-vanilla-devel-3.10.0-693.37.4.rt56.629.el6rt.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/
Topic
An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.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.
Topic
Relevant Releases Architectures
Red Hat MRG Realtime for RHEL 6 Server v.2 - noarch, x86_64
Bugs Fixed
1566890 - CVE-2018-3639 hw: cpu: speculative store bypass
1585005 - CVE-2018-3646 Kernel: hw: cpu: L1 terminal fault (L1TF)
1599860 - update the MRG 2.5.z 3.10 kernel-rt sources
