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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2018.0074
Important: rhev-hypervisor7 security update
8 January 2018
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: rhev-hypervisor7
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-2018:0046
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: rhev-hypervisor7 security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:0046-01
Product: Red Hat Virtualization
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0046
Issue date: 2018-01-05
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1. Summary:
An update for rhev-hypervisor7 is now available for RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and
Agents for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ELS.
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 ELS - noarch
RHEV Hypervisor for RHEL-6 ELS - noarch
3. Description:
The rhev-hypervisor7 package provides a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Hypervisor ISO disk image. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor
is a dedicated Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor. It includes
everything necessary to run and manage virtual machines: A subset of the
Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating environment and the Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Agent.
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:
RHEV Hypervisor for RHEL-6 ELS:
Source:
rhev-hypervisor7-7.3-20180102.1.el6ev.src.rpm
noarch:
rhev-hypervisor7-7.3-20180102.1.el6ev.noarch.rpm
RHEL 7-based RHEV-H ELS:
Source:
rhev-hypervisor7-7.3-20180102.1.el7ev.src.rpm
noarch:
rhev-hypervisor7-7.3-20180102.1.el7ev.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. 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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