-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update Advisory ID: RHSA-2015:0751-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG for RHEL-6 Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0751.html Issue date: 2015-03-30 CVE Names: CVE-2014-8159 CVE-2015-1421 ===================================================================== 1. Summary: Updated kernel-rt packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important 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: MRG Realtime for RHEL 6 Server v.2 - noarch, x86_64 3. Description: The kernel-rt packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. * It was found that the Linux kernel's Infiniband subsystem did not properly sanitize input parameters while registering memory regions from user space via the (u)verbs API. A local user with access to a /dev/infiniband/uverbsX device could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2014-8159, Important) * A use-after-free flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's SCTP implementation handled authentication key reference counting during INIT collisions. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2015-1421, Important) Red Hat would like to thank Mellanox for reporting the CVE-2014-8159 issue. The CVE-2015-1421 issue was discovered by Sun Baoliang of Red Hat. The MRG-Realtime 3.10 kernel-rt sources have been updated to include the following bug fixes: * The kdump service could become unresponsive due to a deadlock in the kernel call ioapic_lock. * Attempt to make metadata changes such as creating a thin device or snapshot thin device did not error out cleanly. (BZ#1201384) This update also fixes the following bug: * The MRG kernel scheduler code was missing checks for the PREEMPT_LAZY flag allowing tasks to be preempted more times than necessary causing latency spikes on the system. Additional checks for the PREEMPT_LAZY flag were added to the check_preempt_wakeup() and check_preempt_curr() functions in the scheduler code so that preempt wakeups were reduced and these latency spikes were removed. (BZ#1157949) All kernel-rt users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect. 4. Solution: Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 1181166 - CVE-2014-8159 kernel: infiniband: uverbs: unprotected physical memory access 1196581 - CVE-2015-1421 kernel: net: slab corruption from use after free on INIT collisions 1201384 - RFE: rebase the 3.10 kernel-rt 6. Package List: MRG Realtime for RHEL 6 Server v.2: Source: kernel-rt-3.10.0-229.rt56.147.el6rt.src.rpm noarch: kernel-rt-doc-3.10.0-229.rt56.147.el6rt.noarch.rpm kernel-rt-firmware-3.10.0-229.rt56.147.el6rt.noarch.rpm x86_64: kernel-rt-3.10.0-229.rt56.147.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-3.10.0-229.rt56.147.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-229.rt56.147.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.10.0-229.rt56.147.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.10.0-229.rt56.147.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-229.rt56.147.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-devel-3.10.0-229.rt56.147.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-3.10.0-229.rt56.147.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.10.0-229.rt56.147.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.10.0-229.rt56.147.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-vanilla-3.10.0-229.rt56.147.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-vanilla-debuginfo-3.10.0-229.rt56.147.el6rt.x86_64.rpm kernel-rt-vanilla-devel-3.10.0-229.rt56.147.el6rt.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-2014-8159 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1421 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/ Copyright 2015 Red Hat, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iD4DBQFVGTpPXlSAg2UNWIIRAj3nAJ0bkzOcBkoYuJ8J4FiJU/MA7/2goQCYsoFV tkOfQk/WbCWhoNUVmkM2Vg== =KEGs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- RHSA-announce mailing list RHSA-announce@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhsa-announce