Bug 187911

Summary:	CVE-2006-1056 FPU Information leak on i386/x86-64 on AMD CPUs
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Marcel Holtmann <holtmann>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Jim Paradis <jparadis>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.0	CC:	lwang, peterm, petrides, security-response-team, vanhoof
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	impact=important,source=vendorsec,reported=20060404,embargo=20060419,public=20060419
Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2006-0437	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Comment 3 Marcel Holtmann 2006-04-19 12:02:46 UTC

An information leak has been reported that affects the Linux kernel running on
certain AMD processors (CVE-2006-1056). This issue is due to the behavior of
FXSAVE and FXRSTOR instructions on AMD processors is different from the behavior
on Intel processors. The difference is documented in "AMD64 Architecture
Programmer's Manual Volume 5: 64-Bit Media and x87 Floating-Point Instructions
Rev 3.06". This difference was not widely known and therefore Linux kernels
assumed these instructions would have same behavior as on Intel processors.

Under specific conditions this may allow a local user to observe the x87
exception pointers of another process. Although this is a minor information
leak, if the floating point unit is being used for a cryptographic algorithm
this could potentially leak some or all of key data.

According to AMD, this will affect processors with "AuthenticAMD" in the CPUID
vendor string. This includes the 7th generation (Family=06h) and 8th generation
(Family=0Fh) of AMD processors.

This issue has been rated as having important security severity and it affects
all Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4 versions running on AMD processors of
the 7th and 8th generation.

Comment 5 Marcel Holtmann 2006-04-19 23:10:00 UTC

Response from AMD:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114548768214478&w=2

Comment 6 Ernie Petrides 2006-04-22 09:04:09 UTC

A fix for this problem has just been committed to the RHEL3 U8
patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-40.9.EL).

Comment 7 Marcel Holtmann 2006-04-29 20:41:40 UTC

The patch introduced a bug in FP exception handling:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114633448824132&w=2

Comment 8 Ernie Petrides 2006-05-01 18:34:59 UTC

Thanks, Marcel.  As it turns out, the patch committed to RHEL3 uses
a "C" statement to perform the test, and the compiler generated the
correct code.  Thus, no regression was caused in RHEL3.

Comment 11 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-07-20 14:02:37 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0437.html