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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2010:0126 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2010-03-01
Updated:
2010-03-01

RHSA-2010:0126 - Security Advisory

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  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

Important: kvm security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

Updated kvm packages that fix two security issues and two bugs are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red
Hat Security Response Team.

Description

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for
Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. KVM is a Linux kernel module built for
the standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel.

A flaw was found in the way the x86 emulator loaded segment selectors (used
for memory segmentation and protection) into segment registers. In some
guest system configurations, an unprivileged guest user could leverage this
flaw to crash the guest or possibly escalate their privileges within the
guest. (CVE-2010-0419)

The x86 emulator implementation was missing a check for the Current
Privilege Level (CPL) while accessing debug registers. An unprivileged
user in a guest could leverage this flaw to crash the guest.
(CVE-2009-3722)

This update also fixes the following bugs:

With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, the virtio_blk_dma_restart_bh()
function was previously used to handle write errors; however, a bug fix
provided by the RHSA-2009:1659 update meant that read errors would also
have to be handled by this function. The function was not updated for this,
causing read errors to be resubmitted as writes. This caused guest image
corruption in some cases.

Additionally, the return values of the bdrv_aio_write() and bdrv_aio_read()
functions were ignored. If an immediate failure occurred in one of these
functions, errors would be missed and the guest could hang or read
corrupted data. (BZ#562776)

All KVM users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
backported patches to resolve these issues. Note: The procedure in the
Solution section must be performed before this update will take effect.

Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

The following procedure must be performed before this update will take
effect:

1) Stop all KVM guest virtual machines.

2) Either reboot the hypervisor machine or, as the root user, remove (using
"modprobe -r [module]") and reload (using "modprobe [module]") all of the
following modules which are currently running (determined using "lsmod"):
kvm, ksm, kvm-intel or kvm-amd.

3) Restart the KVM guest virtual machines.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 531660 - CVE-2009-3722 KVM: Check cpl before emulating debug register access
  • BZ - 562776 - Guest image corruption after RHEV-H update to 5.4-2.1.3.el5_4rhev2_1 using virtio-blk
  • BZ - 563463 - CVE-2010-0419 kvm: emulator privilege escalation segment selector check

CVEs

  • CVE-2009-3722
  • CVE-2010-0419

References

  • http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

SRPM
kvm-83-105.el5_4.27.src.rpm SHA-256: 767bd7b5ab5d8553ca76ea7c2f9bda652117a614df5565150a10848dfbb8d823
x86_64
kmod-kvm-83-105.el5_4.27.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 4ad779269b764ffecce988bdc61005bdfcec4d5a1996e35054e26dc7c8529b13
kvm-83-105.el5_4.27.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 29c5b830f95ced3f1509061bb7c41c56aca0b7c77e1f3b9d1d9f1bc83c69ce9c
kvm-qemu-img-83-105.el5_4.27.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 94048961af37b5b25cb5d75f678c1c9b332db3b024a49ee0ac3a2fab2d7f6445
kvm-tools-83-105.el5_4.27.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: bf8e471c680ed035d0385505b7b5e0f4ffb7b8377af3d40e4bc2f253d82b818f

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.4

SRPM
x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5

SRPM
kvm-83-105.el5_4.27.src.rpm SHA-256: 767bd7b5ab5d8553ca76ea7c2f9bda652117a614df5565150a10848dfbb8d823
x86_64
kmod-kvm-83-105.el5_4.27.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 4ad779269b764ffecce988bdc61005bdfcec4d5a1996e35054e26dc7c8529b13
kvm-83-105.el5_4.27.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 29c5b830f95ced3f1509061bb7c41c56aca0b7c77e1f3b9d1d9f1bc83c69ce9c
kvm-qemu-img-83-105.el5_4.27.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 94048961af37b5b25cb5d75f678c1c9b332db3b024a49ee0ac3a2fab2d7f6445
kvm-tools-83-105.el5_4.27.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: bf8e471c680ed035d0385505b7b5e0f4ffb7b8377af3d40e4bc2f253d82b818f

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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