Synopsis
Important: kernel security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
Topic
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 Extended Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
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 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)
- kernel: kvm: vmx: host GDT limit corruption (CVE-2018-10901)
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 Intel OSSIRT (Intel.com) for reporting CVE-2018-3620 and CVE-2018-3646 and Vegard Nossum (Oracle Corporation) for reporting CVE-2018-10901.
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.
Affected Products
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 6.7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 6.7 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 6.7 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 6.7 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 6.7 x86_64
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RHEL for SAP HANA - Extended Update Support 6.7 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 1585005 - CVE-2018-3646 Kernel: hw: cpu: L1 terminal fault (L1TF)
- BZ - 1601849 - CVE-2018-10901 kernel: kvm: vmx: host GDT limit corruption
CVEs
References
Vulmon