RedHat: RHSA-2018-2403:01 Important: redhat-virtualization-host security
Summary
The redhat-virtualization-host packages provide the Red Hat Virtualization
Host. These packages include redhat-release-virtualization-host,
ovirt-node, and rhev-hypervisor. Red Hat Virtualization Hosts (RHVH) are
installed using a special build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with only the
packages required to host virtual machines. RHVH features a Cockpit user
interface for monitoring the host's resources and performing administrative
tasks.
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)
* A flaw named SegmentSmack was found in the way the Linux kernel handled
specially crafted TCP packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to
trigger time and calculation expensive calls to tcp_collapse_ofo_queue()
and tcp_prune_ofo_queue() functions by sending specially modified packets
within ongoing TCP sessions which could lead to a CPU saturation and hence
a denial of service on the system. Maintaining the denial of service
condition requires continuous two-way TCP sessions to a reachable open
port, thus the attacks cannot be performed using spoofed IP addresses.
(CVE-2018-5390)
Red Hat would like to thank Intel OSSIRT (Intel.com) for reporting
CVE-2018-3620 and CVE-2018-3646 and Juha-Matti Tilli (Aalto University,
Department of Communications and Networking and Nokia Bell Labs) for
reporting CVE-2018-5390.
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/2974891
References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3620 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3646 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5390 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/L1TF
Package List
Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 7:
Source:
redhat-virtualization-host-4.2-20180813.0.el7_5.src.rpm
noarch:
redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-4.2-20180813.0.el7_5.noarch.rpm
RHEL 7-based RHEV-H for RHEV 4 (build requirements):
Source:
redhat-release-virtualization-host-4.2-5.2.el7.src.rpm
noarch:
redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-placeholder-4.2-5.2.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64:
redhat-release-virtualization-host-4.2-5.2.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/
Topic
An update for redhat-release-virtualization-host andredhat-virtualization-host is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4for 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.
Topic
Relevant Releases Architectures
RHEL 7-based RHEV-H for RHEV 4 (build requirements) - noarch, x86_64
Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 7 - noarch
Bugs Fixed
1585005 - CVE-2018-3646 CVE-2018-3620 Kernel: hw: cpu: L1 terminal fault (L1TF)
1601704 - CVE-2018-5390 kernel: TCP segments with random offsets allow a remote denial of service (SegmentSmack)
1614067 - [Tracker] Tracker for RHV-H for 4.2.5-2
