RedHat: RHSA-2018-1696:01 Important: redhat-virtualization-host security
Summary
The ovirt-node-ng packages provide the Red Hat Virtualization Host. These
packages include redhat-release-virtualization-host, ovirt-node, and
rhev-hypervisor. Red Hat Virtualization Hosts (RHVH) are installed using a
special build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with only the packages required
to host virtual machines. RHVH features a Cockpit user interface for
monitoring the host's resources and performing administrative tasks.
Security Fix(es):
* An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor
designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions
(a commonly used performance optimization). It relies on the presence of a
precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as
the fact that memory read from address to which a recent memory write has
occurred may see an older value and subsequently cause an update into the
microprocessor's data cache even for speculatively executed instructions
that never actually commit (retire). As a result, an unprivileged attacker
could use this flaw to read privileged memory by conducting targeted cache
side-channel attacks. (CVE-2018-3639)
Note: This is the redhat-virtualization-host side of the CVE-2018-3639
mitigation.
Red Hat would like to thank Ken Johnson (Microsoft Security Response
Center) and Jann Horn (Google Project Zero) for reporting this issue.
Summary
Solution
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3639 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/ssbd
Package List
Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 7:
Source:
redhat-virtualization-host-4.2-20180518.2.el7_5.src.rpm
noarch:
redhat-virtualization-host-image-update-4.2-20180518.2.el7_5.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
Topic
An update for redhat-virtualization-host is now available for Red HatVirtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Topic
Relevant Releases Architectures
Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 7 - noarch
Bugs Fixed
1566890 - CVE-2018-3639 hw: cpu: speculative store bypass
