Synopsis

Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix two security issues and various bugs
are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.1.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having
important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base
scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each
vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

The kernel-rt packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux
operating system.

This update fixes the following security issues:

• When a set user ID (setuid) application is executed, certain personality
  flags for controlling the application's behavior are cleared (that is, a
  privileged application will not be affected by those flags). It was found
  that those flags were not cleared if the application was made privileged
  via file system capabilities. A local, unprivileged user could use this
  flaw to change the behavior of such applications, allowing them to bypass
  intended restrictions. Note that for default installations, no application
  shipped by Red Hat for Red Hat Enterprise MRG is made privileged via file
  system capabilities. (CVE-2012-2123, Important)
  
• A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's journal_unmap_buffer()
  function handled buffer head states. On systems that have an ext4 file
  system with a journal mounted, a local, unprivileged user could use this
  flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4086, Moderate)
  

This update also fixes the following bugs:

• The CAP_SYS_ADMIN check was missing from the dmesg_restrict feature.
  Consequently, an unprivileged and jailed root user could bypass the
  dmesg_restrict protection. This update adds CAP_SYS_ADMIN to both
  dmesg_restrict and kptr_restrict, which only allows writing to
  dmesg_restrict when root has CAP_SYS_ADMIN. (BZ#808271)
  
• Previously, the _copy_from_pages() function, which is used to copy data
  from the temporary buffer to the user-passed buffer, was passed the wrong
  size parameter when copying data. Consequently, if the user provided a
  buffer greater than PAGE_SIZE, the getxattr() syscalls were handled
  incorrectly. This update fixes _copy_from_pages() to use the ACL length,
  which uses a correctly-sized buffer. (BZ#753230)
  
• Some older versions of hardware or their software could not recognize
  certain commands and would log messages for illegal or unsupported errors
  the driver could not properly handle. This bug has been fixed and no bogus
  error messages are now returned in the described scenario. (BZ#813892)
  
• Previously, the qla2x00_poll() function did the local_irq_save() call
  before calling qla24xx_intr_handler(), which had a spinlock. Since
  spinlocks are sleepable in the real-time kernel, it is not allowed to call
  them with interrupts disabled. This scenario produced error messages and
  could cause a system deadlock. With this update, the
  local_irq_save_nort(flags) function is used to save flags without disabling
  interrupts, which prevents potential deadlocks and removes the error
  messages. (BZ#818220)
  

Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues.
The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

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/knowledge/articles/11258

To install kernel packages manually, use "rpm -ivh [package]". Do not
use "rpm -Uvh" as that will remove the running kernel binaries from
your system. You may use "rpm -e" to remove old kernels after
determining that the new kernel functions properly on your system.

Affected Products

• MRG Realtime 2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 749143 - CVE-2011-4086 kernel: jbd2: unmapped buffer with _Unwritten or _Delay flags set can lead to DoS
• BZ - 806722 - CVE-2012-2123 kernel: fcaps: clear the same personality flags as suid when fcaps are used
• BZ - 818220 - qla2xxx does a spinlock with interrupts disabled

CVEs

• CVE-2011-4086
• CVE-2012-2123

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

MRG Realtime 2

SRPM
kernel-rt-3.0.30-rt50.62.el6rt.src.rpm	SHA-256: d62a77b9dea211bc2d0793ed56f26f0a3b0448ec743047af9fcae9686cdfe8fa
x86_64
kernel-rt-3.0.30-rt50.62.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 623514220be72d71316e8f5c5d7adfd79e5fd083fbd2005ef27a55ad778f65f8
kernel-rt-debug-3.0.30-rt50.62.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 74773fc1cd67d215e6911be41f96095f1495451e69f5d9036ef7faab6092facc
kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.0.30-rt50.62.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: bce76f1147a760ac69b4a3be62df44c4f36d40451dd26ffc684404b2be97efb8
kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.0.30-rt50.62.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: f13354474def3a4d56bbd8fb3908eb408aa8faaf04a26f23be3a63410ddff9fc
kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.0.30-rt50.62.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 626617c1389ca1d1de683ee7015420c050a0b674d3b17d73f3b18dc99998d597
kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.0.30-rt50.62.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 4c7c3315451e837235c2cb86672594bffa4e3321d95d8bd947bdb0857e886ae9
kernel-rt-devel-3.0.30-rt50.62.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 5890fc77e2e0e5d2ce7e6a07fe7d92734133bb4d6391cb5e86e64976bf8e66bb
kernel-rt-doc-3.0.30-rt50.62.el6rt.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 0f2dcb7ee2c16929b84ccf3f7d90dec85bb3621d82829d414229057e4987d54f
kernel-rt-firmware-3.0.30-rt50.62.el6rt.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: d1e842476123c0ba1bea2ae6a425a7be1f11368ef86e420812771c78e850587b
kernel-rt-trace-3.0.30-rt50.62.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 64a610daf8d6242fcf620d2c9106eb15468ffbee8cec6d9349aed2b8015f1c8d
kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.0.30-rt50.62.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 8b1884c3caafa7059bc37532198b372d9ea82b13d760fef770b479e4f9ce6b6a
kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.0.30-rt50.62.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 63b861e58b1a5cbb11204ea02865684e442c258741c49963d59e41c711b4b757
kernel-rt-vanilla-3.0.30-rt50.62.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 83e1fd0435b04658044b337223dd9028214bfca1ca3feed7b9bfbcfaa1fed505
kernel-rt-vanilla-debuginfo-3.0.30-rt50.62.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 7a6bc79167a0a21e04d0b4ff21c8d111885cc7261683e066cff7f1cf7dff1e81
kernel-rt-vanilla-devel-3.0.30-rt50.62.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 59feb9c7acef26d481017ac1c4994c577bf020bf9c4855a559025d206f1ac9cc