Moderate: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

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

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: lockdown: bypass through ACPI write via efivar_ssdt (CVE-2019-20908)
  
• kernel: lockdown: bypass through ACPI write via acpi_configfs (CVE-2020-15780)
  

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.

Bug Fix(es):

• kernel-rt: provide infrastructure to support dual-signing of the kernel (foundation to help address CVE-2020-10713) (BZ#1837441)
  
• kernel-rt: update RT source tree to the RHEL-8.2.z3 source tree (BZ#1856816)

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 - 1852942 - CVE-2019-20908 kernel: lockdown: bypass through ACPI write via efivar_ssdt
• BZ - 1852962 - CVE-2020-15780 kernel: lockdown: bypass through ACPI write via acpi_configfs

CVEs

• CVE-2019-20908
• CVE-2020-15780

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/grub2bootloader