Moderate: virt:8.1 and virt-devel:8.1 security update

Synopsis

Moderate: virt:8.1 and virt-devel:8.1 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for the virt:8.1 and virt-devel:8.1 modules is now available for Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.1.0.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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 Advanced Virtualization module provides the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM hypervisor in environments managed by Red Hat products.

Security Fix(es):

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

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Virtualization 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Virtualization (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Virtualization (for RHEL Server for ARM 64) 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Virtualization (for RHEL Server for IBM System Z) 8 s390x

Fixes

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

CVEs

• CVE-2019-11135

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/solutions/tsx-asynchronousabort