The befs_follow_link function in fs/befs/linuxvfs.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1-rc3 does not validate the length attribute of long symlinks, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (incorrect pointer dereference and OOPS) by accessing a long symlink on a malformed Be filesystem.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 LTSS kernel received a roll up update to fix lots of moderate security issues and several bugs.

The Following security issues have been fixed :

CVE-2012-4530: The load_script function in fs/binfmt_script.c in the Linux kernel did not properly handle recursion, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application.

CVE-2011-2494: kernel/taskstats.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to obtain sensitive I/O statistics by sending taskstats commands to a netlink socket, as demonstrated by discovering the length of another users password.

CVE-2013-2234: The (1) key_notify_sa_flush and (2) key_notify_policy_flush functions in net/key/af_key.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize certain structure members, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by reading a broadcast message from the notify interface of an IPSec key_socket.

CVE-2013-2237: The key_notify_policy_flush function in net/key/af_key.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain structure member, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by reading a broadcast message from the notify_policy interface of an IPSec key_socket.

CVE-2013-2147: The HP Smart Array controller disk-array driver and Compaq SMART2 controller disk-array driver in the Linux kernel did not initialize certain data structures, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via (1) a crafted IDAGETPCIINFO command for a /dev/ida device, related to the ida_locked_ioctl function in drivers/block/cpqarray.c or (2) a crafted CCISS_PASSTHRU32 command for a /dev/cciss device, related to the cciss_ioctl32_passthru function in drivers/block/cciss.c.

CVE-2013-2141: The do_tkill function in kernel/signal.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain data structure, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted application that makes a (1) tkill or (2) tgkill system call.

CVE-2013-0160: The Linux kernel allowed local users to obtain sensitive information about keystroke timing by using the inotify API on the /dev/ptmx device.

CVE-2012-6537: net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize certain structures, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.

CVE-2013-3222: The vcc_recvmsg function in net/atm/common.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain length variable, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.

CVE-2013-3223: The ax25_recvmsg function in net/ax25/af_ax25.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain data structure, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.

CVE-2013-3224: The bt_sock_recvmsg function in net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize a certain length variable, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.

CVE-2013-3228: The irda_recvmsg_dgram function in net/irda/af_irda.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain length variable, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.

CVE-2013-3229: The iucv_sock_recvmsg function in net/iucv/af_iucv.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain length variable, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.

CVE-2013-3231: The llc_ui_recvmsg function in net/llc/af_llc.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain length variable, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.

CVE-2013-3232: The nr_recvmsg function in net/netrom/af_netrom.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain data structure, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.

CVE-2013-3234: The rose_recvmsg function in net/rose/af_rose.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain data structure, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.

CVE-2013-3235: net/tipc/socket.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain data structure and a certain length variable, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.

CVE-2013-1827: net/dccp/ccid.h in the Linux kernel allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for a certain (1) sender or (2) receiver getsockopt call.

CVE-2012-6549: The isofs_export_encode_fh function in fs/isofs/export.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain structure member, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory via a crafted application.

CVE-2012-6547: The __tun_chr_ioctl function in drivers/net/tun.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain structure, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application.

CVE-2012-6546: The ATM implementation in the Linux kernel did not initialize certain structures, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application.

CVE-2012-6544: The Bluetooth protocol stack in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize certain structures, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application that targets the (1) L2CAP or (2) HCI implementation.

CVE-2012-6545: The Bluetooth RFCOMM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize certain structures, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted application.

CVE-2012-6542: The llc_ui_getname function in net/llc/af_llc.c in the Linux kernel had an incorrect return value in certain circumstances, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application that leverages an uninitialized pointer argument.

CVE-2012-6541: The ccid3_hc_tx_getsockopt function in net/dccp/ccids/ccid3.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain structure, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application.

CVE-2012-6540: The do_ip_vs_get_ctl function in net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain structure for IP_VS_SO_GET_TIMEOUT commands, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application.

CVE-2013-0914: The flush_signal_handlers function in kernel/signal.c in the Linux kernel preserved the value of the sa_restorer field across an exec operation, which made it easier for local users to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted application containing a sigaction system call.

CVE-2011-2492: The bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize certain data structures, which allowed local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted getsockopt system call, related to (1) the l2cap_sock_getsockopt_old function in net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c and (2) the rfcomm_sock_getsockopt_old function in net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c.

CVE-2013-2206: The sctp_sf_do_5_2_4_dupcook function in net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c in the SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle associations during the processing of a duplicate COOKIE ECHO chunk, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted SCTP traffic.

CVE-2012-6539: The dev_ifconf function in net/socket.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain structure, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application.

CVE-2013-2232: The ip6_sk_dst_check function in net/ipv6/ip6_output.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by using an AF_INET6 socket for a connection to an IPv4 interface.

CVE-2013-2164: The mmc_ioctl_cdrom_read_data function in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a read operation on a malfunctioning CD-ROM drive.

CVE-2012-4444: The ip6_frag_queue function in net/ipv6/reassembly.c in the Linux kernel allowed remote attackers to bypass intended network restrictions via overlapping IPv6 fragments.

CVE-2013-1928: The do_video_set_spu_palette function in fs/compat_ioctl.c in the Linux kernel on unspecified architectures lacked a certain error check, which might have allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted VIDEO_SET_SPU_PALETTE ioctl call on a /dev/dvb device.

CVE-2013-0871: Race condition in the ptrace functionality in the Linux kernel allowed local users to gain privileges via a PTRACE_SETREGS ptrace system call in a crafted application, as demonstrated by ptrace_death.

CVE-2013-0268: The msr_open function in arch/x86/kernel/msr.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to bypass intended capability restrictions by executing a crafted application as root, as demonstrated by msr32.c.

CVE-2012-3510: Use-after-free vulnerability in the xacct_add_tsk function in kernel/tsacct.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (system crash) via a taskstats TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_PID command.

CVE-2011-4110: The user_update function in security/keys/user_defined.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and kernel oops) via vectors related to a user-defined key and 'updating a negative key into a fully instantiated key.'

CVE-2012-2136: The sock_alloc_send_pskb function in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel did not properly validate a certain length value, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and system crash) or possibly gain privileges by leveraging access to a TUN/TAP device.

CVE-2009-4020: Stack-based buffer overflow in the hfs subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a crafted Hierarchical File System (HFS) filesystem, related to the hfs_readdir function in fs/hfs/dir.c.

CVE-2011-2928: The befs_follow_link function in fs/befs/linuxvfs.c in the Linux kernel did not validate the length attribute of long symlinks, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (incorrect pointer dereference and OOPS) by accessing a long symlink on a malformed Be filesystem.

CVE-2011-4077: Buffer overflow in the xfs_readlink function in fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c in XFS in the Linux kernel, when CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG is disabled, allowed local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an XFS image containing a symbolic link with a long pathname.

CVE-2011-4324: The encode_share_access function in fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash) by using the mknod system call with a pathname on an NFSv4 filesystem.

CVE-2011-4330: Stack-based buffer overflow in the hfs_mac2asc function in fs/hfs/trans.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an HFS image with a crafted len field.

CVE-2011-1172: net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c in the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel did not place the expected 0 character at the end of string data in the values of certain structure members, which allowed local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to issue a crafted request, and then reading the argument to the resulting modprobe process.

CVE-2011-2525: The qdisc_notify function in net/sched/sch_api.c in the Linux kernel did not prevent tc_fill_qdisc function calls referencing builtin (aka CQ_F_BUILTIN) Qdisc structures, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted call.

CVE-2011-2699: The IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel did not generate Fragment Identification values separately for each destination, which made it easier for remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disrupted networking) by predicting these values and sending crafted packets.

CVE-2011-1171: net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c in the IPv4 implementation in the Linux kernel did not place the expected 0 character at the end of string data in the values of certain structure members, which allowed local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to issue a crafted request, and then reading the argument to the resulting modprobe process.

CVE-2011-1170: net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c in the IPv4 implementation in the Linux kernel did not place the expected 0 character at the end of string data in the values of certain structure members, which allowed local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to issue a crafted request, and then reading the argument to the resulting modprobe process.

CVE-2011-3209: The div_long_long_rem implementation in include/asm-x86/div64.h in the Linux kernel on the x86 platform allowed local users to cause a denial of service (Divide Error Fault and panic) via a clock_gettime system call.

CVE-2011-2213: The inet_diag_bc_audit function in net/ipv4/inet_diag.c in the Linux kernel did not properly audit INET_DIAG bytecode, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (kernel infinite loop) via crafted INET_DIAG_REQ_BYTECODE instructions in a netlink message, as demonstrated by an INET_DIAG_BC_JMP instruction with a zero yes value, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3880.

CVE-2011-2534: Buffer overflow in the clusterip_proc_write function in net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_CLUSTERIP.c in the Linux kernel might have allowed local users to cause a denial of service or have unspecified other impact via a crafted write operation, related to string data that lacks a terminating 0 character.

CVE-2011-2699: The IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel did not generate Fragment Identification values separately for each destination, which made it easier for remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disrupted networking) by predicting these values and sending crafted packets.

CVE-2011-2203: The hfs_find_init function in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and Oops) by mounting an HFS file system with a malformed MDB extent record.

CVE-2009-4067: A USB string descriptor overflow in the auerwald USB driver was fixed, which could be used by physically proximate attackers to cause a kernel crash.

CVE-2011-3363: The setup_cifs_sb function in fs/cifs/connect.c in the Linux kernel did not properly handle DFS referrals, which allowed remote CIFS servers to cause a denial of service (system crash) by placing a referral at the root of a share.

CVE-2011-2484: The add_del_listener function in kernel/taskstats.c in the Linux kernel did not prevent multiple registrations of exit handlers, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption), and bypass the OOM Killer, via a crafted application.

CVE-2011-4132: The cleanup_journal_tail function in the Journaling Block Device (JBD) functionality in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (assertion error and kernel oops) via an ext3 or ext4 image with an 'invalid log first block value.'

CVE-2010-4249: The wait_for_unix_gc function in net/unix/garbage.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc3-next-20101125 does not properly select times for garbage collection of inflight sockets, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via crafted use of the socketpair and sendmsg system calls for SOCK_SEQPACKET sockets.

The following bugs have been fixed :

patches.fixes/allow-executables-larger-than-2GB.patch: Allow executables larger than 2GB (bnc#836856).

cio: prevent kernel panic after unexpected I/O interrupt (bnc#649868,LTC#67975).

  - cio: Add timeouts for internal IO     (bnc#701550,LTC#72691). kernel: first time swap use     results in heavy swapping (bnc#701550,LTC#73132).

    qla2xxx: Do not be so verbose on underrun detected

    patches.arch/i386-run-tsc-calibration-5-times.patch: Fix     the patch, the logic was wrong (bnc#537165, bnc#826551).

    xfs: Do not reclaim new inodes in xfs_sync_inodes()     (bnc#770980 bnc#811752).

    kbuild: Fix gcc -x syntax (bnc#773831).

    e1000e: stop cleaning when we reach tx_ring->next_to_use     (bnc#762825).

    Fix race condition about network device name allocation     (bnc#747576).

    kdump: bootmem map over crash reserved region     (bnc#749168, bnc#722400, bnc#742881).

    tcp: fix race condition leading to premature termination     of sockets in FIN_WAIT2 state and connection being reset     (bnc#745760)

    tcp: drop SYN+FIN messages (bnc#765102).

    net/linkwatch: Handle jiffies wrap-around (bnc#740131).

    patches.fixes/vm-dirty-bytes: Provide     /proc/sys/vm/dirty_{background_,}bytes for tuning     (bnc#727597).

    ipmi: Fix deadlock in start_next_msg() (bnc#730749).

    cpu-hotplug: release workqueue_mutex properly on CPU     hot-remove (bnc#733407).

    libiscsi: handle init task failures (bnc#721351).

    NFS/sunrpc: do not use a credential with extra groups     (bnc#725878).

    x86_64: fix reboot hang when 'reboot=b' is passed to the     kernel (bnc#721267).

    nf_nat: do not add NAT extension for confirmed     conntracks (bnc#709213).

    xfs: fix memory reclaim recursion deadlock on locked     inode buffer (bnc#699355 bnc#699354 bnc#721830).

    ipmi: do not grab locks in run-to-completion mode     (bnc#717421).

    cciss: do not attempt to read from a write-only register     (bnc#683101).

    qla2xxx: Disable MSI-X initialization (bnc#693513).

    Allow balance_dirty_pages to help other filesystems     (bnc#709369).

  - nfs: fix congestion control (bnc#709369).

  - NFS: Separate metadata and page cache revalidation     mechanisms (bnc#709369). knfsd: nfsd4: fix laundromat     shutdown race (bnc#752556).

    x87: Do not synchronize TSCs across cores if they     already should be synchronized by HW (bnc#615418     bnc#609220).

    reiserfs: Fix int overflow while calculating free space     (bnc#795075).

    af_unix: limit recursion level (bnc#656153).

    bcm43xx: netlink deadlock fix (bnc#850241).

    jbd: Issue cache flush after checkpointing (bnc#731770).

    cfq: Fix infinite loop in cfq_preempt_queue()     (bnc#724692).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The openSUSE 11.4 kernel was updated to fix various bugs and security issues.

This is the final update of the 2.6.37 kernel of openSUSE 11.4.

This kernel update of the openSUSE 12.1 kernel fixes lots of bugs and security issues.

Following issues were fixed :

  - tcp: drop SYN+FIN messages (bnc#765102).

  - net: sock: validate data_len before allocating skb in     sock_alloc_send_pskb() (bnc#765320, CVE-2012-2136).

  - fcaps: clear the same personality flags as suid when     fcaps are used (bnc#758260 CVE-2012-2123).

  - macvtap: zerocopy: validate vectors before building skb     (bnc#758243 CVE-2012-2119).

  - hfsplus: Fix potential buffer overflows (bnc#760902     CVE-2009-4020).

  - xfrm: take net hdr len into account for esp payload size     calculation (bnc#759545).

  - ext4: fix undefined behavior in ext4_fill_flex_info()     (bnc#757278).

  - igb: fix rtnl race in PM resume path (bnc#748859).

  - ixgbe: add missing rtnl_lock in PM resume path     (bnc#748859).

  - b43: allocate receive buffers big enough for max frame     len + offset (bnc#717749).

  - xenbus: Reject replies with payload >     XENSTORE_PAYLOAD_MAX.

  - xenbus_dev: add missing error checks to watch handling.

  - hwmon: (coretemp-xen) Fix TjMax detection for older     CPUs.

  - hwmon: (coretemp-xen) Relax target temperature range     check.

  - Refresh other Xen patches.

  - tlan: add cast needed for proper 64 bit operation     (bnc#756840).

  - dl2k: Tighten ioctl permissions (bnc#758813).

  - [media] cx22702: Fix signal strength.

  - fs: cachefiles: Add support for large files in     filesystem caching (bnc#747038).

  - bridge: correct IPv6 checksum after pull (bnc#738644).

  - bridge: fix a possible use after free (bnc#738644).

  - bridge: Pseudo-header required for the checksum of     ICMPv6 (bnc#738644).

  - bridge: mcast snooping, fix length check of snooped     MLDv1/2 (bnc#738644).

  - PCI/ACPI: Report ASPM support to BIOS if not disabled     from command line (bnc#714455).

  - ipc/sem.c: fix race with concurrent semtimedop()     timeouts and IPC_RMID (bnc#756203).

  - drm/i915/crt: Remove 0xa0 probe for VGA.

  - tty_audit: fix tty_audit_add_data live lock on audit     disabled (bnc#721366).

  - drm/i915: suspend fbdev device around suspend/hibernate     (bnc#732908).

  - dlm: Do not allocate a fd for peeloff (bnc#729247).

  - sctp: Export sctp_do_peeloff (bnc#729247).

  - i2c-algo-bit: Fix spurious SCL timeouts under heavy     load.

  - patches.fixes/epoll-dont-limit-non-nested.patch: Don't     limit non-nested epoll paths (bnc#676204).

  - Update patches.suse/sd_init.mark_majors_busy.patch     (bnc#744658).

  - igb: Fix for Alt MAC Address feature on 82580 and later     devices (bnc#746980).

  - mark busy sd majors as allocated (bug#744658).

  - regset: Return -EFAULT, not -EIO, on host-side memory     fault (bnc# 750079 CVE-2012-1097).

  - regset: Prevent NULL pointer reference on readonly     regsets (bnc#750079 CVE-2012-1097).

  - mm: memcg: Correct unregistring of events attached to     the same eventfd (CVE-2012-1146 bnc#750959).

  - befs: Validate length of long symbolic links     (CVE-2011-2928 bnc#713430).

  - si4713-i2c: avoid potential buffer overflow on si4713     (CVE-2011-2700 bnc#707332).

  - staging: comedi: fix infoleak to userspace     (CVE-2011-2909 bnc#711941).

  - hfs: add sanity check for file name length     (CVE-2011-4330 bnc#731673).

  - cifs: fix dentry refcount leak when opening a FIFO on     lookup (CVE-2012-1090 bnc#749569).

  - drm: integer overflow in drm_mode_dirtyfb_ioctl()     (CVE-2012-0044 bnc#740745).

  - xfs: fix acl count validation in xfs_acl_from_disk()     (CVE-2012-0038 bnc#740703).

  - xfs: validate acl count (CVE-2012-0038 bnc#740703).

  -     patches.fixes/xfs-fix-possible-memory-corruption-in-xfs_     readlink: Work around missing xfs_alert().

  - xfs: Fix missing xfs_iunlock() on error recovery path in     xfs_readlink() (CVE-2011-4077 bnc#726600).

  - xfs: Fix possible memory corruption in xfs_readlink     (CVE-2011-4077 bnc#726600).

  - ext4: make ext4_split_extent() handle error correctly.

  - ext4: ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized bug found in     extended FSX testing.

  - ext4: add ext4_split_extent_at() and     ext4_split_extent().

  - ext4: reimplement convert and split_unwritten     (CVE-2011-3638 bnc#726045).

  - patches.fixes/epoll-limit-paths.patch: epoll: limit     paths (bnc#676204 CVE-2011-1083).

  - patches.kabi/epoll-kabi-fix.patch: epoll: hide kabi     change in struct file (bnc#676204 CVE-2011-1083).

  - NAT/FTP: Fix broken conntrack (bnc#681639 bnc#466279     bnc#747660).

  - igmp: Avoid zero delay when receiving odd mixture of     IGMP queries (bnc#740448 CVE-2012-0207).

  - jbd2: clear BH_Delay & BH_Unwritten in     journal_unmap_buffer (bnc#745832 CVE-2011-4086).

  - AppArmor: fix oops in apparmor_setprocattr (bnc#717209     CVE-2011-3619).

  - Refresh patches.suse/SoN-22-netvm.patch. Clean and
    *working* patches.

  - Refresh patches.suse/SoN-22-netvm.patch. (bnc#683671)     Fix an rcu locking imbalance in the receive path     triggered when using vlans.

  - Fix mangled patch (invalid date) Although accepted by     `patch`, this is rejected by `git apply`

  - Fix mangled diff lines (leading space tab vs tab)     Although accepted by `patch`, these are rejected by `git     apply`

  - jbd/jbd2: validate sb->s_first in     journal_get_superblock() (bnc#730118).

  - fsnotify: don't BUG in fsnotify_destroy_mark()     (bnc#689860).

  - Fix     patches.fixes/x25-Handle-undersized-fragmented-skbs.patc     h (CVE-2010-3873 bnc#651219).

  - Fix     patches.fixes/x25-Prevent-skb-overreads-when-checking-ca     ll-user-da.patch (CVE-2010-3873 bnc#651219).

  - Fix     patches.fixes/x25-Validate-incoming-call-user-data-lengt     hs.patch (CVE-2010-3873 bnc#651219).

  - Fix     patches.fixes/x25-possible-skb-leak-on-bad-facilities.pa     tch (CVE-2010-3873 bnc#651219 CVE-2010-4164 bnc#653260).

  - Update     patches.fixes/econet-4-byte-infoleak-to-the-network.patc     h (bnc#681186 CVE-2011-1173). Fix reference.

  - hwmon: (w83627ehf) Properly report thermal diode     sensors.

  - nl80211: fix overflow in ssid_len (bnc#703410     CVE-2011-2517).

  - nl80211: fix check for valid SSID size in scan     operations (bnc#703410 CVE-2011-2517).

  - x25: Prevent skb overreads when checking call user data     (CVE-2010-3873 bnc#737624).

  - x25: Handle undersized/fragmented skbs (CVE-2010-3873     bnc#737624).

  - x25: Validate incoming call user data lengths     (CVE-2010-3873 bnc#737624).

  - x25: possible skb leak on bad facilities (CVE-2010-3873     bnc#737624).

  - net: Add a flow_cache_flush_deferred function     (bnc#737624).

  - xfrm: avoid possible oopse in xfrm_alloc_dst     (bnc#737624).

  - scm: lower SCM_MAX_FD (bnc#655696 CVE-2010-4249).

This Linux kernel update fixes various security issues and bugs in the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP4 kernel.

The following security issues have been fixed :

  - A memory corruption when mounting a hfsplus filesystem     was fixed that could be used by local attackers able to     mount filesystem to crash the system. (CVE-2012-2319)

  - The dl2k network card driver lacked permission handling     for some ethtool ioctls, which could allow local     attackers to start/stop the network card.
    (CVE-2012-2313)

  - The befs_follow_linkl function in fs/befs/linuxvfs.c in     the Linux kernel did not validate the lenght attribute     of long symlinsk, which allowed local users to cause a     denial of service (incorrect pointer dereference and     Ooops) by accessing a long symlink on a malformed Be     filesystem. (CVE-2011-2928)

  - Fixed a memory corruption possibility in xfs readlink,     which could be used by local attackers to crash the     system or potentially execute code by mounting a     prepared xfs filesystem image. (CVE-2011-4077)

  - A BUG() error report in the nfs4xdr routines on a NFSv4     mount was fixed that could happen during mknod.
    (CVE-2011-4324)

  - Mounting a corrupted hfs filesystem could lead to a     buffer overflow. (CVE-2011-4330)

The following non-security issues have been fixed :

  - kernel: pfault task state race (bnc#764128,LTC#81724).

  - ap: Toleration for ap bus devices with device type 10.
    (bnc#761389)

  - hugetlb, numa: fix interleave mpol reference count.
    (bnc#762111)

  - cciss: fixup kdump. (bnc#730200)

  - kdump: Avoid allocating bootmem map over crash reserved     region. (bnc#749168, bnc#722400, bnc#742881)

  - qeth: Improve OSA Express 4 blkt defaults     (bnc#754964,LTC#80325).

  - zcrypt: Fix parameter checking for ZSECSENDCPRB ioctl     (bnc#754964,LTC#80378).

  - virtio: add names to virtqueue struct, mapping from     devices to queues. (bnc#742148)

  - virtio: find_vqs/del_vqs virtio operations. (bnc#742148)

  - virtio_pci: optional MSI-X support. (bnc#742148)

  - virtio_pci: split up vp_interrupt. (bnc#742148)

  - knfsd: nfsd4: fix laundromat shutdown race (752556).

  - driver core: Check for valid device in     bus_find_device(). (bnc#729685)

  - VMware detection backport from mainline. (bnc#671124,     bnc#747381)

  - net: adding memory barrier to the poll and receive     callbacks. (bnc#746397 / bnc#750928)

  - qla2xxx: drop reference before wait for completion.
    (bnc#744592)

  - qla2xxx: drop reference before wait for completion.
    (bnc#744592)

  - ixgbe driver sets all WOL flags upon initialization so     that machine is powered on as soon at it is switched     off. (bnc#693639)

  - Properly release MSI(X) vector(s) when MSI(X) gets     disabled. (bnc#723294, bnc#721869)

  - scsi: Always retry internal target error. (bnc#745640)

  - cxgb4: fix parent device access in netdev_printk.
    (bnc#733155)

  - lcs: lcs offline failure (bnc#752486,LTC#79788).

  - qeth: add missing wake_up call (bnc#752486,LTC#79899).

  - NFSD: Fill in WCC data for REMOVE, RMDIR, MKNOD, and     MKDIR. (bnc#751880)

  - xenbus: Reject replies with payload >     XENSTORE_PAYLOAD_MAX.

  - xenbus_dev: add missing error checks to watch handling.

  - blkfront: properly fail packet requests. (bnc#745929)

  - blkback: failure to write 'feature-barrier' node is     non-fatal.

  - igb: Free MSI and MSIX interrupt vectors on driver     remove or shutdown. (bnc#723294)

  - igb: Fix for Alt MAC Address feature on 82580 and later     devices. (bnc#746980)

  - igb: Free MSI and MSIX interrupt vectors on driver     remove or shutdown. (bnc#723294)

  - cfq: Fix infinite loop in cfq_preempt_queue().
    (bnc#724692)

  - dasd: fix fixpoint divide exception in define_extent     (bnc#750168,LTC#79125).

  - ctcmpc: use correct idal word list for ctcmpc     (bnc#750168,LTC#79264).

  - patches.fixes/ext3-fix-reuse-of-freed-blocks.diff:
    Delete. Patch should not really be needed and apparently     causes a performance regression. (bnc#683270)

  - tcp: fix race condition leading to premature termination     of sockets in FIN_WAIT2 state and connection being     reset. (bnc#745760)

  - kernel: console interrupts vs. panic     (bnc#737325,LTC#77272).

  - af_iucv: remove IUCV-pathes completely     (bnc#737325,LTC#78292).

  - qdio: wrong buffers-used counter for ERROR buffers     (bnc#737325,LTC#78758).

  - ext3: Fix credit estimate for DIO allocation.
    (bnc#745732)

  - jbd: validate sb->s_first in journal_get_superblock().
    (bnc#730118)

  - ocfs2: serialize unaligned aio. (bnc#671479)

  - cifs: eliminate usage of kthread_stop for cifsd.
    (bnc#718343)

  - virtio: fix wrong type used, resulting in truncated     addresses in bigsmp kernel. (bnc#737899)

  - cciss: Adds simple mode functionality. (bnc#730200)

  - blktap: fix locking (again). (bnc#724734)

  - block: Initial support for data-less (or empty) barrier     support (bnc#734707 FATE#313126).

  - xen: Do not allow empty barriers to be passed down to     queues that do not grok them (bnc#734707 FATE#313126).

  - linkwatch: Handle jiffies wrap-around. (bnc#740131)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1 kernel was updated to 2.6.32.46 and fixes various bugs and security issues.

The following security issues have been fixed :

  - A signedness issue in CIFS could possibly have lead to     to memory corruption, if a malicious server could send     crafted replies to the host. (CVE-2011-3191)

  - In the fuse filesystem, FUSE_NOTIFY_INVAL_ENTRY did not     check the length of the write so the message processing     could overrun and result in a BUG_ON() in     fuse_copy_fill(). This flaw could be used by local users     able to mount FUSE filesystems to crash the system.
    (CVE-2011-3353)

  - The befs_follow_link function in fs/befs/linuxvfs.c in     the Linux kernel did not validate the length attribute     of long symlinks, which allowed local users to cause a     denial of service (incorrect pointer dereference and     OOPS) by accessing a long symlink on a malformed Be     filesystem. (CVE-2011-2928)

Also the following non security bugs have been fixed :

  - CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP enabled

  - CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED disabled by     default. Swap accounting can be turned on by     swapaccount=1 kernel command line parameter.
    (bnc#719450)

  - Make swap accounting default behavior configurable     (bnc#719450, bnc#650309, fate#310471).

  - Added a missing reset for ioc_reset_in_progress in     SoftReset in the mtpsas driver. (bnc#711969)

  - Add support for the Digi/IBM PCIe 2-port Adapter.
    (bnc#708675)

  - Always enable MSI-X on 5709. (bnc#707737)

  - sched: fix broken SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK handling.
    (bnc#708877)

  - sched: Fix rt_rq runtime leakage bug. (bnc#707096)

  - ACPI: allow passing down C1 information if no other     C-states exist.

  - KDB: turn off kdb usb support by default. (bnc#694670 /     bnc#603804)

  - xfs: Added event tracing support.

  - xfs: fix xfs_fsblock_t tracing.

  - igb: extend maximum frame size to receive VLAN tagged     frames. (bnc#688859)

  - cfq: Do not allow queue merges for queues that have no     process references. (bnc#712929)

  - cfq: break apart merged cfqqs if they stop cooperating.
    (bnc#712929)

  - cfq: calculate the seek_mean per cfq_queue not per     cfq_io_context. (bnc#712929)

  - cfq: change the meaning of the cfqq_coop flag.
    (bnc#712929)

  - cfq-iosched: get rid of the coop_preempt flag.
    (bnc#712929)

  - cfq: merge cooperating cfq_queues. (bnc#712929)

  - Fix FDDI and TR config checks in ipv4 arp and LLC.
    (bnc#715235)

  - writeback: do uninterruptible sleep in     balance_dirty_pages(). (bnc#699354 / bnc#699357)

  - xfs: fix memory reclaim recursion deadlock on locked     inode buffer. (bnc#699355 / bnc#699354)

  - xfs: use GFP_NOFS for page cache allocation. (bnc#699355     / bnc#699354)

  - virtio-net: init link state correctly. (bnc#714966)

  - cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: sanity check to prevent a NULL     pointer dereference. (bnc#709412)

  - x86: ucode-amd: Do not warn when no ucode is available     for a CPU

  - patches.arch/x86_64-unwind-annotations: Refresh.
    (bnc#588458)

  - patches.suse/stack-unwind: Refresh. (bnc#588458)

  - splice: direct_splice_actor() should not use pos in sd.
    (bnc#715763)

  - qdio: 2nd stage retry on SIGA-W busy conditions     (bnc#713138,LTC#74402).

  - TTY: pty, fix pty counting. (bnc#711203)

  - Avoid deadlock in GFP_IO/GFP_FS allocation. (bnc#632870)

  - novfs: fix some DirCache locking issues. (bnc#669378)

  - novfs: fix some kmalloc/kfree issues. (bnc#669378)

  - novfs: fix off-by-one allocation error. (bnc#669378)

  - novfs: unlink directory after unmap. (bnc#649625)

  - novfs: last modification time not reliable. (bnc#642896)

  - x86 / IO APIC: Reset IRR in clear_IO_APIC_pin().
    (bnc#701686, bnc#667386)

  - mptfusion : Added check for SILI bit in READ_6 CDB for     DATA UNDERRUN ERRATA. (bnc#712456)

  - xfs: serialise unaligned direct IOs. (bnc#707125)

  - NFS: Ensure that we handle NFS4ERR_STALE_STATEID     correctly. (bnc#701443)

  - NFSv4: Do not call nfs4_state_mark_reclaim_reboot() from     error handlers. (bnc#701443)

  - NFSv4: Fix open recovery. (bnc#701443)

  - NFSv4.1: Do not call nfs4_schedule_state_recovery()     unnecessarily. (bnc#701443)

It was discovered that the /proc filesystem did not correctly handle permission changes when programs executed. A local attacker could hold open files to examine details about programs running with higher privileges, potentially increasing the chances of exploiting additional vulnerabilities. (CVE-2011-1020)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Bluetooth stack did not correctly clear memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1078)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Bluetooth stack did not correctly check that device name strings were NULL terminated. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or leak contents of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1079)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that bridge network filtering did not check that name fields were NULL terminated. A local attacker could exploit this to leak contents of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1080)

Johan Hovold discovered that the DCCP network stack did not correctly handle certain packet combinations. A remote attacker could send specially crafted network traffic that would crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1093)

Peter Huewe discovered that the TPM device did not correctly initialize memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel heap memory contents, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-1160)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the IRDA subsystem did not correctly check certain field sizes. If a system was using IRDA, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1180)

Ryan Sweat discovered that the GRO code did not correctly validate memory. In some configurations on systems using VLANs, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1478)

It was discovered that the security fix for CVE-2010-4250 introduced a regression. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1479)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the X.25 Rose network stack did not correctly handle certain fields. If a system was running with Rose enabled, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1493)

It was discovered that the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation incorrectly calculated lengths. If the net.sctp.addip_enable variable was turned on, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system. (CVE-2011-1573)

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-1576)

Timo Warns discovered that the GUID partition parsing routines did not correctly validate certain structures. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted block device to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1577)

Phil Oester discovered that the network bonding system did not correctly handle large queues. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1581)

It was discovered that CIFS incorrectly handled authentication. When a user had a CIFS share mounted that required authentication, a local user could mount the same share without knowing the correct password.
(CVE-2011-1585)

It was discovered that the GRE protocol incorrectly handled netns initialization. A remote attacker could send a packet while the ip_gre module was loading, and crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1767)

It was discovered that the IP/IP protocol incorrectly handled netns initialization. A remote attacker could send a packet while the ipip module was loading, and crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1768)

Ben Greear discovered that CIFS did not correctly handle direct I/O. A local attacker with access to a CIFS partition could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1771)

Timo Warns discovered that the EFI GUID partition table was not correctly parsed. A physically local attacker that could insert mountable devices could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1776)

Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly check the origin of mount points. A local attacker could exploit this to trick the system into unmounting arbitrary mount points, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1833)

Ben Hutchings reported a flaw in the kernel's handling of corrupt LDM partitions. A local user could exploit this to cause a denial of service or escalate privileges. (CVE-2011-2182)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the IPv4 diagnostic routines did not correctly validate certain requests. A local attacker could exploit this to consume CPU resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2213)

It was discovered that an mmap() call with the MAP_PRIVATE flag on '/dev/zero' was incorrectly handled. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2479)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats listeners were not correctly handled. A local attacker could exploit this to exhaust memory and CPU resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2484)

It was discovered that Bluetooth l2cap and rfcomm did not correctly initialize structures. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of the kernel stack, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2011-2492)

Sami Liedes discovered that ext4 did not correctly handle missing root inodes. A local attacker could trigger the mount of a specially crafted filesystem to cause the system to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2493)

Robert Swiecki discovered that mapping extensions were incorrectly handled. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2496)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Bluetooth stack incorrectly handled certain L2CAP requests. If a system was using Bluetooth, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2497)

Ben Pfaff discovered that Classless Queuing Disciplines (qdiscs) were being incorrectly handled. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2525)

It was discovered that GFS2 did not correctly check block sizes. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2689)

It was discovered that the EXT4 filesystem contained multiple off-by-one flaws. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2695)

Fernando Gont discovered that the IPv6 stack used predictable fragment identification numbers. A remote attacker could exploit this to exhaust network resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2699)

Mauro Carvalho Chehab discovered that the si4713 radio driver did not correctly check the length of memory copies. If this hardware was available, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2700)

Herbert Xu discovered that certain fields were incorrectly handled when Generic Receive Offload (CVE-2011-2723)

The performance counter subsystem did not correctly handle certain counters. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2918)

Time Warns discovered that long symlinks were incorrectly handled on Be filesystems. A local attacker could exploit this with a malformed Be filesystem and crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2928)

Qianfeng Zhang discovered that the bridge networking interface incorrectly handled certain network packets. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2942)

Dan Kaminsky discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled random sequence number generation. An attacker could use this flaw to possibly predict sequence numbers and inject packets. (CVE-2011-3188)

Darren Lavender discovered that the CIFS client incorrectly handled certain large values. A remote attacker with a malicious server could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. (CVE-2011-3191)

Yasuaki Ishimatsu discovered a flaw in the kernel's clock implementation. A local unprivileged attacker could exploit this causing a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3209)

Yogesh Sharma discovered that CIFS did not correctly handle UNCs that had no prefixpaths. A local attacker with access to a CIFS partition could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3363)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's AppArmor security interface when invalid information was written to it. An unprivileged local user could use this to cause a denial of service on the system.
(CVE-2011-3619)

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's /proc/*/*map* interface. A local, unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3637)

Scot Doyle discovered that the bridge networking interface incorrectly handled certain network packets. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4087)

A bug was found in the way headroom check was performed in udp6_ufo_fragment() function. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2011-4326)

Ben Hutchings discovered several flaws in the Linux Rose (X.25 PLP) layer. A local user or a remote user on an X.25 network could exploit these flaws to execute arbitrary code as root. (CVE-2011-4914).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-1576)

Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly check the origin of mount points. A local attacker could exploit this to trick the system into unmounting arbitrary mount points, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1833)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2494)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that /proc/PID/io did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2495)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Bluetooth stack incorrectly handled certain L2CAP requests. If a system was using Bluetooth, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2497)

It was discovered that the EXT4 filesystem contained multiple off-by-one flaws. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2695)

Fernando Gont discovered that the IPv6 stack used predictable fragment identification numbers. A remote attacker could exploit this to exhaust network resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2699)

Christian Ohm discovered that the perf command looks for configuration files in the current directory. If a privileged user were tricked into running perf in a directory containing a malicious configuration file, an attacker could run arbitrary commands and possibly gain privileges.
(CVE-2011-2905)

Time Warns discovered that long symlinks were incorrectly handled on Be filesystems. A local attacker could exploit this with a malformed Be filesystem and crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2928)

Dan Kaminsky discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled random sequence number generation. An attacker could use this flaw to possibly predict sequence numbers and inject packets. (CVE-2011-3188)

Darren Lavender discovered that the CIFS client incorrectly handled certain large values. A remote attacker with a malicious server could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. (CVE-2011-3191)

Han-Wen Nienhuys reported a flaw in the FUSE kernel module. A local user who can mount a FUSE file system could cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-3353)

Gideon Naim discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling VLAN 0 frames. An attacker on the local network could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3593).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the IPv4 diagnostic routines did not correctly validate certain requests. A local attacker could exploit this to consume CPU resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2213)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Bluetooth stack incorrectly handled certain L2CAP requests. If a system was using Bluetooth, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2497)

It was discovered that the EXT4 filesystem contained multiple off-by-one flaws. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2695)

Mauro Carvalho Chehab discovered that the si4713 radio driver did not correctly check the length of memory copies. If this hardware was available, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2700)

Herbert Xu discovered that certain fields were incorrectly handled when Generic Receive Offload (CVE-2011-2723)

Time Warns discovered that long symlinks were incorrectly handled on Be filesystems. A local attacker could exploit this with a malformed Be filesystem and crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2928)

Dan Kaminsky discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled random sequence number generation. An attacker could use this flaw to possibly predict sequence numbers and inject packets. (CVE-2011-3188)

Darren Lavender discovered that the CIFS client incorrectly handled certain large values. A remote attacker with a malicious server could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. (CVE-2011-3191).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-1576)

Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly check the origin of mount points. A local attacker could exploit this to trick the system into unmounting arbitrary mount points, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1833)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2494)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that /proc/PID/io did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2495)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Bluetooth stack incorrectly handled certain L2CAP requests. If a system was using Bluetooth, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2497)

It was discovered that the EXT4 filesystem contained multiple off-by-one flaws. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2695)

Fernando Gont discovered that the IPv6 stack used predictable fragment identification numbers. A remote attacker could exploit this to exhaust network resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2699)

Christian Ohm discovered that the perf command looks for configuration files in the current directory. If a privileged user were tricked into running perf in a directory containing a malicious configuration file, an attacker could run arbitrary commands and possibly gain privileges.
(CVE-2011-2905)

Time Warns discovered that long symlinks were incorrectly handled on Be filesystems. A local attacker could exploit this with a malformed Be filesystem and crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2928)

Dan Kaminsky discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled random sequence number generation. An attacker could use this flaw to possibly predict sequence numbers and inject packets. (CVE-2011-3188)

Darren Lavender discovered that the CIFS client incorrectly handled certain large values. A remote attacker with a malicious server could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. (CVE-2011-3191)

Han-Wen Nienhuys reported a flaw in the FUSE kernel module. A local user who can mount a FUSE file system could cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-3353)

Gideon Naim discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling VLAN 0 frames. An attacker on the local network could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3593).

It was discovered that the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation incorrectly calculated lengths. If the net.sctp.addip_enable variable was turned on, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system. (CVE-2011-1573)

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-1576)

Timo Warns discovered that the EFI GUID partition table was not correctly parsed. A physically local attacker that could insert mountable devices could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1776)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the IPv4 diagnostic routines did not correctly validate certain requests. A local attacker could exploit this to consume CPU resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2213)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2494)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that /proc/PID/io did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2495)

Robert Swiecki discovered that mapping extensions were incorrectly handled. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2496)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Bluetooth stack incorrectly handled certain L2CAP requests. If a system was using Bluetooth, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2497)

It was discovered that the wireless stack incorrectly verified SSID lengths. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2517)

Ben Pfaff discovered that Classless Queuing Disciplines (qdiscs) were being incorrectly handled. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2525)

It was discovered that the EXT4 filesystem contained multiple off-by-one flaws. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2695)

Herbert Xu discovered that certain fields were incorrectly handled when Generic Receive Offload (CVE-2011-2723)

Christian Ohm discovered that the perf command looks for configuration files in the current directory. If a privileged user were tricked into running perf in a directory containing a malicious configuration file, an attacker could run arbitrary commands and possibly gain privileges. (CVE-2011-2905)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Comedi driver did not correctly clear memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2909)

Time Warns discovered that long symlinks were incorrectly handled on Be filesystems. A local attacker could exploit this with a malformed Be filesystem and crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2928)

Dan Kaminsky discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled random sequence number generation. An attacker could use this flaw to possibly predict sequence numbers and inject packets. (CVE-2011-3188)

Darren Lavender discovered that the CIFS client incorrectly handled certain large values. A remote attacker with a malicious server could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. (CVE-2011-3191)

Yogesh Sharma discovered that CIFS did not correctly handle UNCs that had no prefixpaths. A local attacker with access to a CIFS partition could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3363)

Timo Warns discovered that the EFI GUID partition table was not correctly parsed. A physically local attacker that could insert mountable devices could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1776)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the IPv4 diagnostic routines did not correctly validate certain requests. A local attacker could exploit this to consume CPU resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2213)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Bluetooth stack incorrectly handled certain L2CAP requests. If a system was using Bluetooth, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2497)

It was discovered that the EXT4 filesystem contained multiple off-by-one flaws. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2695)

Mauro Carvalho Chehab discovered that the si4713 radio driver did not correctly check the length of memory copies. If this hardware was available, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2700)

Herbert Xu discovered that certain fields were incorrectly handled when Generic Receive Offload (CVE-2011-2723)

Time Warns discovered that long symlinks were incorrectly handled on Be filesystems. A local attacker could exploit this with a malformed Be filesystem and crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2928)

Dan Kaminsky discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled random sequence number generation. An attacker could use this flaw to possibly predict sequence numbers and inject packets. (CVE-2011-3188)

Darren Lavender discovered that the CIFS client incorrectly handled certain large values. A remote attacker with a malicious server could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. (CVE-2011-3191)

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-1576)

Timo Warns discovered that the EFI GUID partition table was not correctly parsed. A physically local attacker that could insert mountable devices could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1776)

Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly check the origin of mount points. A local attacker could exploit this to trick the system into unmounting arbitrary mount points, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1833)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the IPv4 diagnostic routines did not correctly validate certain requests. A local attacker could exploit this to consume CPU resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2213)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Bluetooth stack incorrectly handled certain L2CAP requests. If a system was using Bluetooth, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2497)

Fernando Gont discovered that the IPv6 stack used predictable fragment identification numbers. A remote attacker could exploit this to exhaust network resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2699)

Mauro Carvalho Chehab discovered that the si4713 radio driver did not correctly check the length of memory copies. If this hardware was available, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2700)

Herbert Xu discovered that certain fields were incorrectly handled when Generic Receive Offload (CVE-2011-2723)

The performance counter subsystem did not correctly handle certain counters. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2918)

Time Warns discovered that long symlinks were incorrectly handled on Be filesystems. A local attacker could exploit this with a malformed Be filesystem and crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2928)

Darren Lavender discovered that the CIFS client incorrectly handled certain large values. A remote attacker with a malicious server could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. (CVE-2011-3191)

Gideon Naim discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling VLAN 0 frames. An attacker on the local network could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3593).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Timo Warns discovered that the EFI GUID partition table was not correctly parsed. A physically local attacker that could insert mountable devices could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1776)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the IPv4 diagnostic routines did not correctly validate certain requests. A local attacker could exploit this to consume CPU resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2213)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Bluetooth stack incorrectly handled certain L2CAP requests. If a system was using Bluetooth, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2497)

Fernando Gont discovered that the IPv6 stack used predictable fragment identification numbers. A remote attacker could exploit this to exhaust network resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2699)

Time Warns discovered that long symlinks were incorrectly handled on Be filesystems. A local attacker could exploit this with a malformed Be filesystem and crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2928)

Darren Lavender discovered that the CIFS client incorrectly handled certain large values. A remote attacker with a malicious server could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. (CVE-2011-3191).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-1576)

Timo Warns discovered that the EFI GUID partition table was not correctly parsed. A physically local attacker that could insert mountable devices could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1776)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the IPv4 diagnostic routines did not correctly validate certain requests. A local attacker could exploit this to consume CPU resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2213)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Bluetooth stack incorrectly handled certain L2CAP requests. If a system was using Bluetooth, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2497)

Mauro Carvalho Chehab discovered that the si4713 radio driver did not correctly check the length of memory copies. If this hardware was available, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-2700)

Herbert Xu discovered that certain fields were incorrectly handled when Generic Receive Offload (CVE-2011-2723)

Time Warns discovered that long symlinks were incorrectly handled on Be filesystems. A local attacker could exploit this with a malformed Be filesystem and crash the system, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2928)

Dan Kaminsky discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled random sequence number generation. An attacker could use this flaw to possibly predict sequence numbers and inject packets. (CVE-2011-3188)

Darren Lavender discovered that the CIFS client incorrectly handled certain large values. A remote attacker with a malicious server could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. (CVE-2011-3191)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leak. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

  - CVE-2009-4067     Rafael Dominguez Vega of MWR InfoSecurity reported an     issue in the auerswald module, a driver for Auerswald     PBX/System Telephone USB devices. Attackers with     physical access to a system's USB ports could obtain     elevated privileges using a specially crafted USB     device.

  - CVE-2011-0712     Rafael Dominguez Vega of MWR InfoSecurity reported an     issue in the caiaq module, a USB driver for Native     Instruments USB audio devices. Attackers with physical     access to a system's USB ports could obtain elevated     privileges using a specially crafted USB device.

  - CVE-2011-1020     Kees Cook discovered an issue in the /proc filesystem     that allows local users to gain access to sensitive     process information after execution of a setuid binary.

  - CVE-2011-2209     Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the osf_sysinfo()     system call on the alpha architecture. Local users could     obtain access to sensitive kernel memory.

  - CVE-2011-2211     Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the osf_wait4()     system call on the alpha architecture permitting local     users to gain elevated privileges.

  - CVE-2011-2213     Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the INET socket     monitoring interface. Local users could cause a denial     of service by injecting code and causing the kernel to     execute an infinite loop.

  - CVE-2011-2484     Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall discovered that the number     of exit handlers that a process can register is not     capped, resulting in local denial of service through     resource exhaustion (CPU time and memory).

  - CVE-2011-2491     Vasily Averin discovered an issue with the NFS locking     implementation. A malicious NFS server can cause a     client to hang indefinitely in an unlock call.

  - CVE-2011-2492     Marek Kroemeke and Filip Palian discovered that     uninitialized struct elements in the Bluetooth subsystem     could lead to a leak of sensitive kernel memory through     leaked stack memory.

  - CVE-2011-2495     Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall discovered that the io file     of a process' proc directory was world-readable,     resulting in local information disclosure of information     such as password lengths.

  - CVE-2011-2496     Robert Swiecki discovered that mremap() could be abused     for local denial of service by triggering a BUG_ON     assert.

  - CVE-2011-2497     Dan Rosenberg discovered an integer underflow in the     Bluetooth subsystem, which could lead to denial of     service or privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2011-2525     Ben Pfaff reported an issue in the network scheduling     code. A local user could cause a denial of service (NULL     pointer dereference) by sending a specially crafted     netlink message.

  - CVE-2011-2928     Timo Warns discovered that insufficient validation of Be     filesystem images could lead to local denial of service     if a malformed filesystem image is mounted.

  - CVE-2011-3188     Dan Kaminsky reported a weakness of the sequence number     generation in the TCP protocol implementation. This can     be used by remote attackers to inject packets into an     active session.

  - CVE-2011-3191     Darren Lavender reported an issue in the Common Internet     File System (CIFS). A malicious file server could cause     memory corruption leading to a denial of service.

This update also includes a fix for a regression introduced with the previous security fix for CVE-2011-1768 (Debian bug #633738).

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

  - CVE-2011-1020     Kees Cook discovered an issue in the /proc filesystem     that allows local users to gain access to sensitive     process information after execution of a setuid binary.

  - CVE-2011-1576     Ryan Sweat discovered an issue in the VLAN     implementation. Local users may be able to cause a     kernel memory leak, resulting in a denial of service.

  - CVE-2011-2484     Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall discovered that the number     of exit handlers that a process can register is not     capped, resulting in local denial of service through     resource exhaustion (CPU time and memory).

  - CVE-2011-2491     Vasily Averin discovered an issue with the NFS locking     implementation. A malicious NFS server can cause a     client to hang indefinitely in an unlock call.

  - CVE-2011-2492     Marek Kroemeke and Filip Palian discovered that     uninitialized struct elements in the Bluetooth subsystem     could lead to a leak of sensitive kernel memory through     leaked stack memory.

  - CVE-2011-2495     Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall discovered that the io file     of a process' proc directory was world-readable,     resulting in local information disclosure of information     such as password lengths.

  - CVE-2011-2496     Robert Swiecki discovered that mremap() could be abused     for local denial of service by triggering a BUG_ON     assert.

  - CVE-2011-2497     Dan Rosenberg discovered an integer underflow in the     Bluetooth subsystem, which could lead to denial of     service or privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2011-2517     It was discovered that the netlink-based wireless     configuration interface performed insufficient length     validation when parsing SSIDs, resulting in buffer     overflows. Local users with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability     can cause a denial of service.

  - CVE-2011-2525     Ben Pfaff reported an issue in the network scheduling     code. A local user could cause a denial of service (NULL     pointer dereference) by sending a specially crafted     netlink message.

  - CVE-2011-2700     Mauro Carvalho Chehab of Red Hat reported a buffer     overflow issue in the driver for the Si4713 FM Radio     Transmitter driver used by N900 devices. Local users     could exploit this issue to cause a denial of service or     potentially gain elevated privileges.

  - CVE-2011-2723     Brent Meshier reported an issue in the GRO (generic     receive offload) implementation. This can be exploited     by remote users to create a denial of service (system     crash) in certain network device configurations.

  - CVE-2011-2905     Christian Ohm discovered that the 'perf' analysis tool     searches for its config files in the current working     directory. This could lead to denial of service or     potential privilege escalation if a user with elevated     privileges is tricked into running 'perf' in a directory     under the control of the attacker.

  - CVE-2011-2909     Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall discovered that a     programming error in the Comedi driver could lead to the     information disclosure through leaked stack memory.

  - CVE-2011-2918     Vince Weaver discovered that incorrect handling of     software event overflows in the 'perf' analysis tool     could lead to local denial of service.

  - CVE-2011-2928     Timo Warns discovered that insufficient validation of Be     filesystem images could lead to local denial of service     if a malformed filesystem image is mounted.

  - CVE-2011-3188     Dan Kaminsky reported a weakness of the sequence number     generation in the TCP protocol implementation. This can     be used by remote attackers to inject packets into an     active session.

  - CVE-2011-3191     Darren Lavender reported an issue in the Common Internet     File System (CIFS). A malicious file server could cause     memory corruption leading to a denial of service.

This update also includes a fix for a regression introduced with the previous security fix for CVE-2011-1768 (Debian bug #633738).

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
83603	SUSE SLES10 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2013:1832-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
74801	openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2012:1439-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
74658	openSUSE Security Update : Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2012:0799-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
59522	SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 8162)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
59521	SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 8161)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
57111	SuSE 11.1 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 5219 / 5222 / 5223)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
56768	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-natty vulnerabilities (USN-1256-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
56747	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1253-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
56645	Ubuntu 11.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1246-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
56644	Ubuntu 10.10 : linux-mvl-dove vulnerabilities (USN-1245-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
56640	USN-1241-1 : linux-fsl-imx51 vulnerabilities	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
56639	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-mvl-dove vulnerabilities (USN-1240-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
56638	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-1239-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
56479	USN-1228-1 : linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
56466	Ubuntu 10.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1227-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
56388	Ubuntu 8.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1225-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
56345	USN-1220-1 : linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
56344	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-maverick vulnerabilities (USN-1219-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
56285	Debian DSA-2310-1 : linux-2.6 - privilege escalation/denial of service/information leak	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
56130	Debian DSA-2303-2 : linux-2.6 - privilege escalation/denial of service/information leak	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical

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