-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Important: kernel security and bug fix update Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:1196-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1196 Issue date: 2018-04-23 ===================================================================== 1. Summary: An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Extended Lifecycle Support. 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 Server (v. 5 ELS) - i386, noarch, s390x, x86_64 3. Description: The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. 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. 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, x86-64) Red Hat would like to thank Google Project Zero for reporting this issue. Bug Fix(es): * The Return Trampolines (Retpolines) mechanism is a software construct that leverages specific knowledge of the underlying hardware to mitigate the branch target injection, also known as Spectre variant 2 vulnerability described in CVE-2017-5715. With this update, the support for Retpolines has been implemented into the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel. (BZ#1535650) 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/): 1519780 - CVE-2017-5715 hw: cpu: speculative execution branch target injection 6. Package List: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 5 ELS): Source: kernel-2.6.18-430.el5.src.rpm i386: kernel-2.6.18-430.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-2.6.18-430.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-debuginfo-2.6.18-430.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-430.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-430.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-430.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-430.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-430.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-430.el5.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-430.el5.i686.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-430.el5.i386.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-430.el5.i686.rpm kernel-xen-debuginfo-2.6.18-430.el5.i686.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-430.el5.i686.rpm noarch: kernel-doc-2.6.18-430.el5.noarch.rpm s390x: kernel-2.6.18-430.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-430.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-430.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-430.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-430.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-430.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-430.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-430.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-kdump-2.6.18-430.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-kdump-debuginfo-2.6.18-430.el5.s390x.rpm kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.18-430.el5.s390x.rpm x86_64: kernel-2.6.18-430.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-430.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-430.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-430.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-430.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-430.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-430.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-430.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-430.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-xen-debuginfo-2.6.18-430.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-430.el5.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/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/speculativeexecution https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5715 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/ Copyright 2018 Red Hat, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iD8DBQFa3diYXlSAg2UNWIIRAnhWAJ9opNY+30BvfMhP0Do53kZ8IIrcswCeILeI iZ7xSHUxGx0i8+Qz6b9Y6zc= =F706 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- RHSA-announce mailing list RHSA-announce@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhsa-announce