Synopsis

tboot bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated tboot packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are
now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The tboot packages provide the Trusted Boot (tboot) open source pre-kernel/VMM
module. This module uses Intel Trusted Execution Technology (Intel TXT) to
initialize the launch of operating system kernels and virtual machines.

The tboot packages have been upgraded to upstream version 1.7.4, which provides
a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#916046,
BZ#957158)

Users of tboot are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these
bugs and add these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
tboot-1.7.4-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 991d0a3f85db53c2a3e59e0769769582422439158f83a3bb9a22d872381f6c12
x86_64
tboot-1.7.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: d90182e22de8a64795a67bd8adfd4a444807d95b692bfd7931c5a38afe805ad7
tboot-debuginfo-1.7.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: c96f6ec2909bdf47d13ff9f429e19b84956104391cc29945b41c8b82189dc380

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
tboot-1.7.4-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 991d0a3f85db53c2a3e59e0769769582422439158f83a3bb9a22d872381f6c12
x86_64
tboot-1.7.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: d90182e22de8a64795a67bd8adfd4a444807d95b692bfd7931c5a38afe805ad7
tboot-debuginfo-1.7.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: c96f6ec2909bdf47d13ff9f429e19b84956104391cc29945b41c8b82189dc380

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
tboot-1.7.4-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 991d0a3f85db53c2a3e59e0769769582422439158f83a3bb9a22d872381f6c12
x86_64
tboot-1.7.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: d90182e22de8a64795a67bd8adfd4a444807d95b692bfd7931c5a38afe805ad7
tboot-debuginfo-1.7.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: c96f6ec2909bdf47d13ff9f429e19b84956104391cc29945b41c8b82189dc380

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
tboot-1.7.4-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 991d0a3f85db53c2a3e59e0769769582422439158f83a3bb9a22d872381f6c12
x86_64
tboot-1.7.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: d90182e22de8a64795a67bd8adfd4a444807d95b692bfd7931c5a38afe805ad7
tboot-debuginfo-1.7.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: c96f6ec2909bdf47d13ff9f429e19b84956104391cc29945b41c8b82189dc380

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6

SRPM
tboot-1.7.4-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 991d0a3f85db53c2a3e59e0769769582422439158f83a3bb9a22d872381f6c12
x86_64
tboot-1.7.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: d90182e22de8a64795a67bd8adfd4a444807d95b692bfd7931c5a38afe805ad7
tboot-debuginfo-1.7.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: c96f6ec2909bdf47d13ff9f429e19b84956104391cc29945b41c8b82189dc380