Important: kernel-rt security update

Synopsis

Important: kernel-rt security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: broken permission and object lifetime handling for PTRACE_TRACEME (CVE-2019-13272)
  
• kernel: hw: Spectre SWAPGS gadget vulnerability (CVE-2019-1125)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1724389 - CVE-2019-1125 kernel: hw: Spectre SWAPGS gadget vulnerability
• BZ - 1730895 - CVE-2019-13272 kernel: broken permission and object lifetime handling for PTRACE_TRACEME

CVEs

• CVE-2019-1125
• CVE-2019-13272

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/articles/4329821