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add advisory for kernel-4.14.119-1.mga6
1 type: security
2 subject: Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerability
3 CVE:
4 - CVE-2018-12126
5 - CVE-2018-12127
6 - CVE-2018-12130
7 - CVE-2019-11091
8 src:
9 6:
10 core:
11 - kernel-4.14.119-1.mga6
12 - kernel-userspace-headers-4.14.119-1.mga6
13 - kmod-vboxadditions-6.0.6-3.mga6
14 - kmod-virtualbox-6.0.6-3.mga6
15 - kmod-xtables-addons-2.13-85.mga6
16 description: |
17 This kernel update provides the upstream 4.14.119 that adds the kernel side
18 mitigations for the Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS, also called
19 ZombieLoad attack) vulnerabilities in Intel processors that can allow
20 attackers to retrieve data being processed inside a CPU. To complete the
21 mitigations new microcode is also needed, either by installing the
22 microcode-0.20190514-1.mga6 package, or get an updated bios / uefi
23 firmware from the motherboard vendor.
24
25 The fixed / mitigated issues are:
26
27 Modern Intel microprocessors implement hardware-level micro-optimizations
28 to improve the performance of writing data back to CPU caches. The write
29 operation is split into STA (STore Address) and STD (STore Data)
30 sub-operations. These sub-operations allow the processor to hand-off
31 address generation logic into these sub-operations for optimized writes.
32 Both of these sub-operations write to a shared distributed processor
33 structure called the 'processor store buffer'. As a result, an
34 unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to read private data resident
35 within the CPU's processor store buffer. (CVE-2018-12126)
36
37 Microprocessors use a ‘load port’ subcomponent to perform load operations
38 from memory or IO. During a load operation, the load port receives data
39 from the memory or IO subsystem and then provides the data to the CPU
40 registers and operations in the CPU’s pipelines. Stale load operations
41 results are stored in the 'load port' table until overwritten by newer
42 operations. Certain load-port operations triggered by an attacker can be
43 used to reveal data about previous stale requests leaking data back to the
44 attacker via a timing side-channel. (CVE-2018-12127)
45
46 A flaw was found in the implementation of the "fill buffer", a mechanism
47 used by modern CPUs when a cache-miss is made on L1 CPU cache. If an
48 attacker can generate a load operation that would create a page fault,
49 the execution will continue speculatively with incorrect data from the
50 fill buffer while the data is fetched from higher level caches. This
51 response time can be measured to infer data in the fill buffer.
52 (CVE-2018-12130)
53
54 Uncacheable memory on some microprocessors utilizing speculative execution
55 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure
56 via a side channel with local access. (CVE-2019-11091)
57 references:
58 - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24820
59 - https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.html
60 - https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.117
61 - https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.118
62 - https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.119

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