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Red Hat 5 ELS RHSA-2018-2602 Important: Kernel Memory Protection Issue

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Calendar Grey August 29, 2018
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Critical kernel security patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, targeting substantial vulnerabilities and necessitating a system restart.
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Extended Lifecycle Support

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 packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
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 optimization) 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)
Red Hat would like to thank Intel OSSIRT (Intel.com) for reporting these issues.

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3620 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3646 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 5 ELS):
Source: kernel-2.6.18-434.el5.src.rpm
i386: kernel-2.6.18-434.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-2.6.18-434.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-debuginfo-2.6.18-434.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-434.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-434.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-434.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-434.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-434.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-434.el5.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-434.el5.i686.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-434.el5.i386.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-434.el5.i686.rpm kernel-xen-debuginfo-2.6.18-434.el5.i686.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-434.el5.i686.rpm
noarch: kernel-doc-2.6.18-434.el5.noarch.rpm
s390x: kernel-2.6.18-434.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-434.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-434.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-434.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-434.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-434.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-434.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-434.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-kdump-2.6.18-434.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-kdump-debuginfo-2.6.18-434.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.18-434.el5.s390x.rpm
x86_64: kernel-2.6.18-434.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-434.el5.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2602-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2602
Issue date: 2018-08-29

Topic

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Extended Lifecycle Support.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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat update kernel memory protection Important

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 5 ELS) - i386, noarch, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1585005 - CVE-2018-3620 CVE-2018-3646 Kernel: hw: cpu: L1 terminal fault (L1TF)

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