Issued:
2022-08-09
Updated:
2022-08-09

RHSA-2022:5939 - Moderate: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

Security Fix(es):

  • Incomplete cleanup of multi-core shared buffers (aka SBDR) (CVE-2022-21123)

  • Incomplete cleanup of microarchitectural fill buffers (aka SBDS) (CVE-2022-21125)

  • Incomplete cleanup in specific special register write operations (aka DRPW) (CVE-2022-21166)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

  • The kernel-rt crashes where one task is indefinitely looping in __start_cfs_bandwidth() with the cfs_b->lock spinlock being held (BZ#2079976)

  • update to the latest RHEL7.9.z16 source tree (BZ#2100182)

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

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time for NFV7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • kernel-rt-3.10.0-1160.76.1.rt56.1220.el7.src.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-kvm-3.10.0-1160.76.1.rt56.1220.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-devel-3.10.0-1160.76.1.rt56.1220.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-kvm-3.10.0-1160.76.1.rt56.1220.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.76.1.rt56.1220.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-1160.76.1.rt56.1220.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.76.1.rt56.1220.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.76.1.rt56.1220.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.76.1.rt56.1220.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-trace-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.76.1.rt56.1220.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-3.10.0-1160.76.1.rt56.1220.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.10.0-1160.76.1.rt56.1220.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.10.0-1160.76.1.rt56.1220.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-debug-3.10.0-1160.76.1.rt56.1220.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-doc-3.10.0-1160.76.1.rt56.1220.el7.noarch.rpm
  • kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.10.0-1160.76.1.rt56.1220.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-trace-kvm-3.10.0-1160.76.1.rt56.1220.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • kernel-rt-trace-3.10.0-1160.76.1.rt56.1220.el7.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

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References

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