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Red Hat: RHSA-2020-0026-01 Important: kpatch-patch Security Update

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Calendar Grey January 6, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial kpatch-patch security enhancement released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6. Addresses severe vulnerabilities.
An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Extended Update Support

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel.
Security Fix(es):
* hw: Machine Check Error on Page Size Change (IFU) (CVE-2018-12207)
* hw: TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA) (CVE-2019-11135)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgements, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12207 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11135 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/ifu-page-mce https://access.redhat.com/articles/tsx-asynchronousabort

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6):
Source: kpatch-patch-3_10_0-957_35_1-1-5.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-957_35_2-1-4.el7.src.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-957_38_1-1-3.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: kpatch-patch-3_10_0-957_35_1-1-5.el7.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-957_35_1-debuginfo-1-5.el7.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-957_35_2-1-4.el7.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-957_35_2-debuginfo-1-4.el7.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-957_38_1-1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm kpatch-patch-3_10_0-957_38_1-debuginfo-1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
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Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:0026-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2020-01-06

Topic

An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux7.6 Extended Update 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.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1646768 - CVE-2018-12207 hw: Machine Check Error on Page Size Change (IFU)

1753062 - CVE-2019-11135 hw: TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA)

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