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Red Hat Security Advisory 2012-0676-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2012-0676-01
Posted May 22, 2012
Authored by Red Hat | Site access.redhat.com

Red Hat Security Advisory 2012-0676-01 - KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. KVM is a Linux kernel module built for the standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel. A flaw was found in the way the KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP ioctl was handled. Calling this ioctl when at least one virtual CPU already existed could lead to a NULL pointer dereference later when the VCPU is scheduled to run. A malicious user in the kvm group on the host could use this flaw to crash the host. A flaw was found in the way device memory was handled during guest device removal. Upon successful device removal, memory used by the device was not properly unmapped from the corresponding IOMMU or properly released from the kernel, leading to a memory leak. A malicious user in the kvm group on the host who has the ability to assign a device to a guest could use this flaw to crash the host.

tags | advisory, kernel, memory leak
systems | linux, redhat
advisories | CVE-2012-1601, CVE-2012-2121
SHA-256 | 5ec712624114bd7a62ded7e3e13e0b431d5a90f25d887258c19bd6583197a38e

Red Hat Security Advisory 2012-0676-01

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: kvm security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2012:0676-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0676.html
Issue date: 2012-05-21
CVE Names: CVE-2012-1601 CVE-2012-2121
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1. Summary:

Updated kvm packages that fix two security issues and one bug are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate
security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,
which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability
from the CVE links in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

RHEL Desktop Multi OS (v. 5 client) - x86_64
RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server) - x86_64

3. Description:

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for
Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. KVM is a Linux kernel module built for
the standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel.

A flaw was found in the way the KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP ioctl was handled.
Calling this ioctl when at least one virtual CPU (VCPU) already existed
could lead to a NULL pointer dereference later when the VCPU is scheduled
to run. A malicious user in the kvm group on the host could use this flaw
to crash the host. (CVE-2012-1601)

A flaw was found in the way device memory was handled during guest device
removal. Upon successful device removal, memory used by the device was not
properly unmapped from the corresponding IOMMU or properly released from
the kernel, leading to a memory leak. A malicious user in the kvm group on
the host who has the ability to assign a device to a guest could use this
flaw to crash the host. (CVE-2012-2121)

This update also fixes the following bug:

* An off-by-one error in the QEMU guest's memory management could, in rare
cases, cause QEMU-KVM to crash due to a segmentation fault in
tb_invalidate_phys_page_range() if a device initiated DMA into a specific
guest address. In a reported case, this issue presented on a system that
had a guest using the 8139cp network driver. (BZ#816207)

All users of kvm are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain backported patches to correct these issues. Note that the procedure
in the Solution section must be performed before this update will take
effect.

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

The following procedure must be performed before this update will take
effect:

1) Stop all KVM guest virtual machines.

2) Either reboot the hypervisor machine or, as the root user, remove (using
"modprobe -r [module]") and reload (using "modprobe [module]") all of the
following modules which are currently running (determined using "lsmod"):
kvm, ksm, kvm-intel or kvm-amd.

3) Restart the KVM guest virtual machines.

5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

808199 - CVE-2012-1601 kernel: kvm: irqchip_in_kernel() and vcpu->arch.apic inconsistency
814149 - CVE-2012-2121 kvm: device assignment page leak

6. Package List:

RHEL Desktop Multi OS (v. 5 client):

Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Client/en/os/SRPMS/kvm-83-249.el5_8.4.src.rpm

x86_64:
kmod-kvm-83-249.el5_8.4.x86_64.rpm
kmod-kvm-debug-83-249.el5_8.4.x86_64.rpm
kvm-83-249.el5_8.4.x86_64.rpm
kvm-debuginfo-83-249.el5_8.4.x86_64.rpm
kvm-qemu-img-83-249.el5_8.4.x86_64.rpm
kvm-tools-83-249.el5_8.4.x86_64.rpm

RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server):

Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/kvm-83-249.el5_8.4.src.rpm

x86_64:
kmod-kvm-83-249.el5_8.4.x86_64.rpm
kmod-kvm-debug-83-249.el5_8.4.x86_64.rpm
kvm-83-249.el5_8.4.x86_64.rpm
kvm-debuginfo-83-249.el5_8.4.x86_64.rpm
kvm-qemu-img-83-249.el5_8.4.x86_64.rpm
kvm-tools-83-249.el5_8.4.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package

7. References:

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2012-1601.html
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2012-2121.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
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