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Posted on 21 September 2019
RedHat===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: kpatch-patch security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:2854-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2854
Issue date: 2019-09-21
CVE Names: CVE-2019-14835
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1. Summary:
An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. 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.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64le, x86_64
3. Description:
This is a kernel live patch module which can be loaded by the kpatch
command line utility to modify the code of a running kernel.
Security Fix(es):
* A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Linux kernel's vhost
functionality that translates virtqueue buffers to IOVs, logged the buffer
descriptors during migration. A privileged guest user able to pass
descriptors with invalid length to the host when migration is underway,
could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the host.
(CVE-2019-14835)
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.
4. 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
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1750727 - CVE-2019-14835 kernel: vhost-net: guest to host kernel escape during migration
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source:
kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062-1-1.el7.src.rpm
kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_1_1-1-1.el7.src.rpm
ppc64le:
kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062-1-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062-debuginfo-1-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_1_1-1-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_1_1-debuginfo-1-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64:
kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062-1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062-debuginfo-1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_1_1-1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_1_1-debuginfo-1-1.el7.x86_64.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/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14835
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/kernel-vhost
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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