Synopsis

Important: kernel-rt security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix multiple security issues are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5.

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.

• A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's futex subsystem handled
  the requeuing of certain Priority Inheritance (PI) futexes. A local,
  unprivileged user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the
  system. (CVE-2014-3153, Important)
  
• It was found that the Linux kernel's ptrace subsystem allowed a traced
  process' instruction pointer to be set to a non-canonical memory address
  without forcing the non-sysret code path when returning to user space.
  A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system or,
  potentially, escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2014-4699,
  Important)
  

Note: The CVE-2014-4699 issue only affected systems using an Intel CPU.

• It was found that the permission checks performed by the Linux kernel
  when a netlink message was received were not sufficient. A local,
  unprivileged user could potentially bypass these restrictions by passing a
  netlink socket as stdout or stderr to a more privileged process and
  altering the output of this process. (CVE-2014-0181, Moderate)
  
• It was found that the aio_read_events_ring() function of the Linux
  kernel's Asynchronous I/O (AIO) subsystem did not properly sanitize the AIO
  ring head received from user space. A local, unprivileged user could use
  this flaw to disclose random parts of the (physical) memory belonging to
  the kernel and/or other processes. (CVE-2014-0206, Moderate)
  
• An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Netlink Attribute
  extension of the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) interpreter functionality in
  the Linux kernel's networking implementation. A local, unprivileged user
  could use this flaw to crash the system or leak kernel memory to user space
  via a specially crafted socket filter. (CVE-2014-3144, CVE-2014-3145,
  Moderate)
  
• An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel's
  system call auditing implementation. On a system with existing audit rules
  defined, a local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to leak kernel
  memory to user space or, potentially, crash the system. (CVE-2014-3917,
  Moderate)
  
• A flaw was found in the way Linux kernel's Transparent Huge Pages (THP)
  implementation handled non-huge page migration. A local, unprivileged user
  could use this flaw to crash the kernel by migrating transparent hugepages.
  (CVE-2014-3940, Moderate)
  
• An integer underflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Stream
  Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation processed certain
  COOKIE_ECHO packets. By sending a specially crafted SCTP packet, a remote
  attacker could use this flaw to prevent legitimate connections to a
  particular SCTP server socket to be made. (CVE-2014-4667, Moderate)
  
• An information leak flaw was found in the RAM Disks Memory Copy (rd_mcp)
  backend driver of the iSCSI Target subsystem of the Linux kernel.
  A privileged user could use this flaw to leak the contents of kernel memory
  to an iSCSI initiator remote client. (CVE-2014-4027, Low)
  

Red Hat would like to thank Kees Cook of Google for reporting
CVE-2014-3153, Andy Lutomirski for reporting CVE-2014-4699 and
CVE-2014-0181, and Gopal Reddy Kodudula of Nokia Siemens Networks for
reporting CVE-2014-4667. Google acknowledges Pinkie Pie as the original
reporter of CVE-2014-3153. The CVE-2014-0206 issue was discovered by
Mateusz Guzik of Red Hat.

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which upgrade the
kernel-rt kernel to version kernel-rt-3.10.33-rt32.43 and 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/site/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 - 1094265 - CVE-2014-0181 kernel: net: insufficient permision checks of netlink messages
• BZ - 1094602 - CVE-2014-0206 kernel: aio: insufficient sanitization of head in aio_read_events_ring()
• BZ - 1096775 - CVE-2014-3144 CVE-2014-3145 Kernel: filter: prevent nla extensions to peek beyond the end of the message
• BZ - 1102571 - CVE-2014-3917 kernel: DoS with syscall auditing
• BZ - 1103626 - CVE-2014-3153 kernel: futex: pi futexes requeue issue
• BZ - 1104097 - CVE-2014-3940 Kernel: missing check during hugepage migration
• BZ - 1108744 - CVE-2014-4027 Kernel: target/rd: imformation leakage
• BZ - 1113967 - CVE-2014-4667 kernel: sctp: sk_ack_backlog wrap-around problem
• BZ - 1115927 - CVE-2014-4699 kernel: x86_64: ptrace: sysret to non-canonical address

CVEs

• CVE-2014-3153
• CVE-2014-3144
• CVE-2014-0206
• CVE-2014-3145
• CVE-2014-4699
• CVE-2014-3940
• CVE-2014-0181
• CVE-2014-4667
• CVE-2014-4027
• CVE-2014-3917

References

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

MRG Realtime 2

SRPM
kernel-rt-3.10.33-rt32.43.el6rt.src.rpm	SHA-256: 6a9d9032c854371eb1c5c3249fd57fa8d00f1992cd7cb5f9aad9e707f671d901
x86_64
kernel-rt-3.10.33-rt32.43.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: f44f5505d5bf66953a3e3d58449acc3d6db9fa7a62f160be0d1c8754d35e4ed0
kernel-rt-debug-3.10.33-rt32.43.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: c4fc4c0918bdc3886fe194cd6aeab94726918a23e841a8cd37f251a949e1468a
kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.10.33-rt32.43.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 62adf147b741d06ee895345f35571fb174441a534310716aad55125722825e5e
kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.10.33-rt32.43.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 1019ca60c9d04a887b70c351dad92bf9224372bb75e00b447a9893493ffe3ee0
kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.10.33-rt32.43.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 8103322db7aeaed0aacac40784e40ec7f49fd35cf2fc00b5acdb11075f645bda
kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.33-rt32.43.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 3e173325145d917d736c071c64755c339c6c9c048310a796d6624ceaed1ef87d
kernel-rt-devel-3.10.33-rt32.43.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: a320c279dce38924a85dd6b5d2dc47854f1b304ce7f07b311071d8a8006e1327
kernel-rt-doc-3.10.33-rt32.43.el6rt.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 7657c855f099e63f17b855696bed327394ec63252d556a51f6b2558423356473
kernel-rt-firmware-3.10.33-rt32.43.el6rt.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 056273e79617b1603a82c5ef96f1986d35a2c22098e42dc056d90776e1110986
kernel-rt-trace-3.10.33-rt32.43.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 4b870184c39803b3d9a6f7f588cb69dc86bc1f6458a5d68fccbd5fad5391a286
kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.10.33-rt32.43.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 77087204dee6f1fa31184c91061376fa95cb9c78bcf2f7dbe0bcf760991f19b0
kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.10.33-rt32.43.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 5191059d269479dc86c64f4dc5ffbedec397b5d6356984b5c9489c9e7178fdfd
kernel-rt-vanilla-3.10.33-rt32.43.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: f013cb48060674d2f3fe73cc720c78aabda374f36a4f209c07ca4e22aecef020
kernel-rt-vanilla-debuginfo-3.10.33-rt32.43.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: ea67350dfbe475c7847a246d41eed688f4bd4f2a24cdadba466df15ef6651253
kernel-rt-vanilla-devel-3.10.33-rt32.43.el6rt.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 0f5adde53818d8caa20b4f0f1be925cc6c622aa8a5f09a2350de6a7972735ae1