rhsa-2019_3916
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat
Published
2019-11-19 15:56
Modified
2024-11-15 04:12
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.2.5 machine-os-content-container security update

Notes

Topic
An update for machine-os-content-container is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2. 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.
Details
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. This is a text-only advisory for the machine-os-content container image, which includes RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS. Security Fix(es): * A flaw was found in the way Intel CPUs handled inconsistency between virtual to physical memory address translations in the CPU's local cache and the system software's Paging structure entries. A privileged guest user can exploit this flaw to induce a hardware Machine Check Error (MCE) on the host processor, resulting in a severe DoS scenario by halting the processor. System software like the OS OR Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) use the virtual memory system for storing program instructions and data in memory. The virtual memory system uses Paging structures like Page Tables and Page Directories to manage system memory. The processor's Memory Management Unit (MMU) uses Paging structure entries to translate a program's virtual memory addresses to physical memory addresses. The processor stores these address translations into its local cache buffer, called the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB). TLB has two parts, one for instructions and the other for data addresses. System software can modify its Paging structure entries to change address mappings or certain attributes like page size, etc. Upon such Paging structure alterations in memory, system software must invalidate the corresponding address translations in the processor's TLB cache. Before this TLB invalidation takes place, however, a privileged guest user could trigger an instruction fetch operation, which could use an already cached, but now invalid, virtual to physical address translation from Instruction TLB (ITLB). This would access an invalid physical memory address, resulting in halting the processor due to the MCE on Page Size Change. (CVE-2018-12207) * A flaw was found in the way sudo implemented running commands with an arbitrary user ID. If a sudoers entry is written to allow users to run a command as any user except root, this flaw can be used by an attacker to bypass that restriction. (CVE-2019-14287) 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.
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          "text": "This flaw only affects specific, non-default configurations of sudo, in which sudoers configuration entry allows a user to run a command as any user except root, for example:\n\nsomeuser myhost = (ALL, !root) /usr/bin/somecommand\n\nThis configuration allows user \"someuser\" to run somecommand as any other user except root. However, this flaw also allows someuser to run somecommand as root by specifying the target user using the numeric id of -1. Only the specified command can be run, this flaw does NOT allow user to run other commands that those specified in the sudoers configuration.\n\nAny other configurations of sudo (including configurations that allow user to run commands as any user including root and configurations that allow user to run command as a specific other user)  are NOT affected by this flaw.\n\nRed Hat Virtualization Hypervisor includes an affected version of sudo, however the default configuration is not vulnerable to this flaw.",
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          "summary": "https://www.sudo.ws/alerts/minus_1_uid.html",
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          "details": "This vulnerability only affects configurations of sudo that have a runas user list that includes an exclusion of root.  The most simple example is:\n\n~~~\nsomeuser ALL=(ALL, !root) /usr/bin/somecommand\n~~~\n\nThe exclusion is specified using an excalamation mark (!).  In this example, the \"root\" user is specified by name.  The root user may also be identified in other ways, such as by user id:\n\n~~~\nsomeuser ALL=(ALL, !#0) /usr/bin/somecommand\n~~~\n\nor by reference to a runas alias:\n\n~~~\nRunas_Alias MYGROUP = root, adminuser\nsomeuser ALL=(ALL, !MYGROUP) /usr/bin/somecommand\n~~~\n\nTo ensure your sudoers configuration is not affected by this vulnerability, we recommend examining each sudoers entry that includes the `!` character in the runas specification, to ensure that the root user is not among the exclusions.  These can be found in the /etc/sudoers file or files under /etc/sudoers.d.",
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}


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