Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Topic

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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):

• A use-after-free in cls_route filter implementation may lead to privilege escalation (CVE-2022-2588)
• RetBleed Arbitrary Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions (CVE-2022-23816, CVE-2022-29900)
• Branch Type Confusion (non-retbleed) (CVE-2022-23825)
• Intel: Post-barrier Return Stack Buffer Predictions (CVE-2022-26373)
• Intel: RetBleed Arbitrary Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions (CVE-2022-29901)

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):

• Update to the latest RHEL7.9.z18 source tree (BZ#2117337)

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 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2090226 - CVE-2022-23816 CVE-2022-29900 hw: cpu: AMD: RetBleed Arbitrary Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions
• BZ - 2103148 - CVE-2022-29901 hw: cpu: Intel: RetBleed Arbitrary Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions
• BZ - 2103153 - CVE-2022-23825 hw: cpu: AMD: Branch Type Confusion (non-retbleed)
• BZ - 2114849 - CVE-2022-2588 kernel: a use-after-free in cls_route filter implementation may lead to privilege escalation
• BZ - 2115065 - CVE-2022-26373 hw: cpu: Intel: Post-barrier Return Stack Buffer Predictions

CVEs

• CVE-2022-2588
• CVE-2022-23816
• CVE-2022-23825
• CVE-2022-26373
• CVE-2022-29900
• CVE-2022-29901

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/solutions/6971358