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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0622 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2013-03-11
Updated:
2013-03-11

RHSA-2013:0622 - Security Advisory

  • Overview
  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

Important: kernel-rt 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 kernel-rt packages that fix several security issues and three bugs
are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.3.

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:

  • A flaw was found in the way file permission checks for the

"/dev/cpu/[x]/msr" files were performed in restricted root environments
(for example, when using a capability-based security model). A local user
with the ability to write to these files could use this flaw to escalate
their privileges to kernel level, for example, by writing to the
SYSENTER_EIP_MSR register. (CVE-2013-0268, Important)

  • A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's ptrace

implementation handled PTRACE_SETREGS requests when the debuggee was woken
due to a SIGKILL signal instead of being stopped. A local, unprivileged
user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges. (CVE-2013-0871,
Important)

  • An out-of-bounds access flaw was found in the way SOCK_DIAG_BY_FAMILY

Netlink messages were processed in the Linux kernel. A local, unprivileged
user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges. (CVE-2013-1763,
Important)

  • It was found that the default SCSI command filter does not accommodate

commands that overlap across device classes. A privileged guest user could
potentially use this flaw to write arbitrary data to a LUN that is
passed-through as read-only. (CVE-2012-4542, Moderate)

  • A flaw was found in the way the __skb_recv_datagram() function in the

Linux kernel processed payload-less socket buffers (skb) when the MSG_PEEK
option was requested. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to
cause a denial of service (infinite loop). (CVE-2013-0290, Moderate)

The CVE-2012-4542 issue was discovered by Paolo Bonzini of Red Hat.

This update also fixes the following bugs:

  • There was high contention on run-queue lock when load balancing before

idling, causing latency spikes on high CPU core count systems. With this
update, IPI is used to send notification to cores with pending work, and
the cores push the work rather than trying to pull it, resolving this
issue. (BZ#858396)

  • Previously, ACPI lock was converted to an rt_mutex, leading to a

traceback when scheduling while atomic. With this update, ACPI lock has
been converted back to a raw spinlock. (BZ#909965)

  • Fibre Channel (FC)/iSCSI device state was set to off-line and after a

timeout, not set back to running. Such a device would not come back online
after a fast_io_fail or timeout. With this update, an explicit check for
the device being offline has been added, and the device is set back to
running when re-initializing, allowing devices to recover after a failure
or timeout. (BZ#912942)

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 - 858396 - latency issues on four-socket systems
  • BZ - 875360 - CVE-2012-4542 kernel: block: default SCSI command filter does not accomodate commands overlap across device classes
  • BZ - 908693 - CVE-2013-0268 kernel: x86/msr: /dev/cpu/*/msr local privilege escalation
  • BZ - 911473 - CVE-2013-0290 kernel: net: infinite loop in __skb_recv_datagram()
  • BZ - 911937 - CVE-2013-0871 kernel: race condition with PTRACE_SETREGS
  • BZ - 915052 - CVE-2013-1763 kernel: sock_diag: out-of-bounds access to sock_diag_handlers[]

CVEs

  • CVE-2013-0871
  • CVE-2012-4542
  • CVE-2013-0290
  • CVE-2013-1763
  • CVE-2013-0268

References

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

MRG Realtime 2

SRPM
kernel-rt-3.6.11-rt30.25.el6rt.src.rpm SHA-256: c340f4f186c912a0095ec537dc07159de7d9d9e39565766fc527ee1c38f636ae
x86_64
kernel-rt-3.6.11-rt30.25.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b67662ef478791560613fe988367ec7382c6a8caca257827699a473c8965fc4a
kernel-rt-debug-3.6.11-rt30.25.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c8e127e009f9f16d304ecff612526e099b0605c87dad7e726e5bc117d256cf9c
kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.6.11-rt30.25.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 481d9d9da6ce09efa0e95b207101c9603579abc825ce582e5531ed74beae6cf9
kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.6.11-rt30.25.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: f773b1ffca3881d8c8ad1f0de28d97a57cd7ae06de735d633f4eed5801592cfe
kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.6.11-rt30.25.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e56a5163a1c2f177b7a28b1321d9589d7e26dbe15624878ab7b586a04b61376c
kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.6.11-rt30.25.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: bcf335c5e18df8c6f93e54beea5c9b1394637f9b43242e34db23d1121338928a
kernel-rt-devel-3.6.11-rt30.25.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 7b12bb159693c36bd20694d282118522a791daff33be0e9b72c51661792ac46a
kernel-rt-doc-3.6.11-rt30.25.el6rt.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 907cb1af86f83799da9ec144e8c01e7c91842ce5d6592f79928b18bfccb29d0b
kernel-rt-firmware-3.6.11-rt30.25.el6rt.noarch.rpm SHA-256: d9c8acbeafccfa587e4f54bcbc887fdfda5d0405e5af19e353875c996760f860
kernel-rt-trace-3.6.11-rt30.25.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 13d4b41f59b108df7f4c87cdeb65ccc21a5b48c8cd003725db820e88670d58d1
kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.6.11-rt30.25.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a61e86c2a700e8a16d928b8118c5fc23c1b5b74caa5615dec06de7dc02483101
kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.6.11-rt30.25.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: bfb0001f3e3b5ff013f140ac40d03f248075684c0a449b8606dc1a728f17bd1d
kernel-rt-vanilla-3.6.11-rt30.25.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 36b008dbc7d96e8acb732c5d8752fa24943ecd56d909dae8498f7be75881624a
kernel-rt-vanilla-debuginfo-3.6.11-rt30.25.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ea92a5f2d2f1b8c8d6e9de38874fbcc62187f836adf7f954a5623606ed10f9cf
kernel-rt-vanilla-devel-3.6.11-rt30.25.el6rt.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: aa9fc2008ae8f5400a5cbd455ce8ceba1de3bf79fd8a9ddf86e00a27da2c64ff
mrg-rt-release-3.6.11-rt30.25.el6rt.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 94bc98784c20bdcd3bca6e4a3a0bf38dc2145180fed9c41ca60f6b41f61b4a8d

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

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