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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2018.0072 Important: redhat-virtualization-host security update 8 January 2018 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: redhat-virtualization-host Publisher: Red Hat Operating System: Red Hat Impact/Access: Access Privileged Data -- Existing Account Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2017-5754 CVE-2017-5753 CVE-2017-5715 Reference: ASB-2018.0002.4 ESB-2018.0065 ESB-2018.0064 ESB-2018.0046 ESB-2018.0044 ESB-2018.0042 Original Bulletin: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0044 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Important: redhat-virtualization-host security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:0044-01 Product: Red Hat Virtualization Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0044 Issue date: 2018-01-05 ===================================================================== 1. Summary: An update for redhat-virtualization-host is now available for RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-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: RHEL 7-based RHEV-H - noarch 3. Description: The ovirt-node-ng packages provide the Red Hat Virtualization Host. These packages include redhat-release-virtualization-host, ovirt-node, and rhev-hypervisor. Red Hat Virtualization Hosts (RHVH) are installed using a special build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with only the packages required to host virtual machines. RHVH features a Cockpit user interface for monitoring the host's resources and performing administrative tasks. Security Fix(es): An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions (a commonly used performance optimization). There are three primary variants of the issue which differ in the way the speculative execution can be exploited. Note: This issue is present in hardware and cannot be fully fixed via software update. The updated kernel packages provide software mitigation for this hardware issue at a cost of potential performance penalty. Please refer to References section for further information about this issue and the performance impact. Variant CVE-2017-5753 triggers the speculative execution by performing a bounds-check bypass. It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the fact that memory accesses may cause allocation into the microprocessor's data cache even for speculatively executed instructions that never actually commit (retire). As a result, an unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to cross the syscall boundary and read privileged memory by conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks. (CVE-2017-5753, Important) Variant CVE-2017-5715 triggers the speculative execution by utilizing branch target injection. It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the fact that memory accesses may cause allocation into the microprocessor's data cache even for speculatively executed instructions that never actually commit (retire). As a result, an unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to cross the syscall and guest/host boundaries and read privileged memory by conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks. (CVE-2017-5715, Important) Variant CVE-2017-5754 relies on the fact that, on impacted microprocessors, during speculative execution of instruction permission faults, exception generation triggered by a faulting access is suppressed until the retirement of the whole instruction block. In a combination with the fact that memory accesses may populate the cache even when the block is being dropped and never committed (executed), an unprivileged local attacker could use this flaw to read privileged (kernel space) memory by conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks. (CVE-2017-5754, Important) Note: CVE-2017-5754 affects Intel x86-64 microprocessors. AMD x86-64 microprocessors are not affected by this issue. Red Hat would like to thank Google Project Zero for reporting these issues. 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 5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 1519778 - CVE-2017-5753 hw: cpu: speculative execution bounds-check bypass 1519780 - CVE-2017-5715 hw: cpu: speculative execution branch target injection 1519781 - CVE-2017-5754 hw: cpu: speculative execution permission faults handling 6. Package List: RHEL 7-based RHEV-H: Source: redhat-virtualization-host-3.6-20180103.0.el7_3.src.rpm noarch: redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-3.6-20180103.0.el7_3.noarch.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/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/speculativeexecution https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3307851 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5753 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5715 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5754 8. 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