Mitigate Foreshadow aka. L1 Terminal Fault vulnerabilities

A recent and very severe vulnerability has been revealed that allows arbitrary memory reads. The mitigations (both for userspace and hypervisors) were submitted to the Linux kernel in commit 958f338e96f874a0d29442396d6adf9c1e17aa2d. For non-hypervisors, the fix is simple and has no performance impact. It is important that Tails upgrade its kernel to mitigate this nasty vulnerability.

• https://foreshadowattack.eu/
• https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/software-guidance/l1-terminal-fault
• https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/08/14/ubuntu-updates-for-l1-terminal-fault-vulnerabilities

Debian status:

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-3615 (only affects Intel SGX, which we don’t use)
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-3620
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-3646 (only affects virtualization, which we don’t use)

Feature Branch: bugfix/15796-foreshadow+force-all-tests

Related issues

• Blocks #15334 (closed)
• Blocks #15852 (closed)
• Blocks #15846 (closed)

Original created by @cypherpunks on 15796 (Redmine)