Red Hat Security Advisory 2018-0412-01 - The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements. Security Fix: Kernel: KVM: MMU potential stack buffer overrun during page walks Kernel: KVM: debug exception via syscall emulation.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:0412-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0412
Issue date: 2018-03-06
CVE Names: CVE-2017-7518 CVE-2017-12188
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1. Summary:
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.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64
3. 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: KVM: MMU potential stack buffer overrun during page walks
(CVE-2017-12188, Important)
* Kernel: KVM: debug exception via syscall emulation (CVE-2017-7518,
Moderate)
Bug Fix(es):
* The kernel-rt packages have been upgraded to the 3.10.0-693.21.1 source
tree, which provides a number of bug fixes over the previous version.
(BZ#1537671)
4. 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.
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1464473 - CVE-2017-7518 Kernel: KVM: debug exception via syscall emulation
1500380 - CVE-2017-12188 Kernel: KVM: MMU potential stack buffer overrun during page walks
1537671 - kernel-rt: update to the RHEL7.4.z batch#5 source tree
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV (v. 7):
Source:
kernel-rt-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.src.rpm
noarch:
kernel-rt-doc-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64:
kernel-rt-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-kvm-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-devel-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-kvm-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-kvm-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime (v. 7):
Source:
kernel-rt-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.src.rpm
noarch:
kernel-rt-doc-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64:
kernel-rt-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-devel-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.10.0-693.21.1.rt56.639.el7.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/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7518
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12188
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2018 Red Hat, Inc.
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