RedHat: RHSA-2019-2830:01 Important: kernel-rt security update
Summary
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 buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Linux kernel's vhost
functionality that translates virtqueue buffers to IOVs, logged the buffer
descriptors during migration. A privileged guest user able to pass
descriptors with invalid length to the host when migration is underway,
could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the host.
(CVE-2019-14835)
Summary
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.
References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14835 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/kernel-vhost
Package List
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV (v. 7):
Source:
kernel-rt-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.src.rpm
noarch:
kernel-rt-doc-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64:
kernel-rt-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-kvm-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-devel-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-kvm-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-kvm-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime (v. 7):
Source:
kernel-rt-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.src.rpm
noarch:
kernel-rt-doc-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64:
kernel-rt-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-devel-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.10.0-1062.1.2.rt56.1025.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/
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 impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Topic
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
Bugs Fixed
1750727 - CVE-2019-14835 kernel: vhost-net: guest to host kernel escape during migration