Important: kpatch-patch security update

Synopsis

Important: kpatch-patch security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for kpatch-patch 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

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)

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1646768 - CVE-2018-12207 hw: Machine Check Error on Page Size Change (IFU)
• BZ - 1753062 - CVE-2019-11135 hw: TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA)

CVEs

• CVE-2018-12207
• CVE-2019-11135

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/ifu-page-mce
• https://access.redhat.com/solutions/tsx-asynchronousabort