arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not have an exit handler for the INVVPID instruction, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via a crafted application.

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - Linux kernel built with the KVM visualization support     (CONFIG_KVM), with nested visualization(nVMX) feature     enabled(nested=1), is vulnerable to host memory leakage     issue. It could occur while emulating VMXON instruction     in 'handle_vmon'. An L1 guest user could use this flaw     to leak host memory potentially resulting in     DoS.(CVE-2017-2596i1/4%0

  - The (1) BPF_S_ANC_NLATTR and (2) BPF_S_ANC_NLATTR_NEST     extension implementations in the sk_run_filter function     in net/core/filter.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.3     do not check whether a certain length value is     sufficiently large, which allows local users to cause a     denial of service (integer underflow and system crash)     via crafted BPF instructions. NOTE: the affected code     was moved to the __skb_get_nlattr and
    __skb_get_nlattr_nest functions before the     vulnerability was announced.(CVE-2014-3144i1/4%0

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel when freeing pages     in hugetlbfs. This could trigger a local denial of     service by crashing the kernel.(CVE-2017-15127i1/4%0

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.8.
    Incorrect access checking in overlayfs mounts could be     used by local attackers to modify or truncate files in     the underlying filesystem.(CVE-2018-16597i1/4%0

  - Memory leak in the cuse_channel_release function in     fs/fuse/cuse.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4 allows     local users to cause a denial of service (memory     consumption) or possibly have unspecified other impact     by opening /dev/cuse many times.(CVE-2015-1339i1/4%0

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's nested     NMI handler and espfix64 functionalities interacted     during NMI processing. A local, unprivileged user could     use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially,     escalate their privileges on the     system.(CVE-2015-3290i1/4%0

  - Multiple array index errors in     drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c in the Human Interface     Device (HID) subsystem in the Linux kernel through     3.11, when CONFIG_HID_MULTITOUCH is enabled, allow     physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of     service (heap memory corruption, or NULL pointer     dereference and OOPS) via a crafted     device.(CVE-2013-2897i1/4%0

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's futex     subsystem handled the requeuing of certain Priority     Inheritance (PI) futexes. A local, unprivileged user     could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the     system.(CVE-2014-3153i1/4%0

  - The XFS subsystem in the Linux kernel 4.4 and later     allows local users to cause a denial of service     (fdatasync() failure and system hang) by using the vfs     syscall group in the 'trinity' program, as a result of     a page lock order bug in the XFS seek hole/data     implementation.(CVE-2016-8660i1/4%0

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's key management     system where it was possible for an attacker to     escalate privileges or crash the machine. If a user key     gets negatively instantiated, an error code is cached     in the payload area. A negatively instantiated key may     be then be positively instantiated by updating it with     valid data. However, the -i1/4zupdate key type method     must be aware that the error code may be     there.(CVE-2015-8539i1/4%0

  - It was found that the Linux kernel KVM subsystem's     sysenter instruction emulation was not sufficient. An     unprivileged guest user could use this flaw to escalate     their privileges by tricking the hypervisor to emulate     a SYSENTER instruction in 16-bit mode, if the guest OS     did not initialize the SYSENTER model-specific     registers (MSRs). Note: Certified guest operating     systems for Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM do     initialize the SYSENTER MSRs and are thus not     vulnerable to this issue when running on a KVM     hypervisor.(CVE-2015-0239i1/4%0

  - An information leak flaw was found in the way the Linux     kernel handled media device enumerate entities IOCTL     requests. A local user able to access the /dev/media0     device file could use this flaw to leak kernel memory     bytes.(CVE-2014-1739i1/4%0

  - The dgnc_mgmt_ioctl function in     drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_mgmt.c in the Linux kernel     through 4.3.3 does not initialize a certain structure     member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive     information from kernel memory via a crafted     application.(CVE-2015-7885i1/4%0

  - An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel     in cdrom_ioctl_drive_status() function in     drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c that could be used by local     attackers to read kernel memory at certain     location.(CVE-2018-16658i1/4%0

  - A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's     implementation of VFIO. An attacker issuing an ioctl     can create a situation where memory is corrupted and     modify memory outside of the expected area. This may     overwrite kernel memory and subvert kernel     execution.(CVE-2016-9083i1/4%0

  - It was found that the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem did     not handle the VM exits gracefully for the invvpid     (Invalidate Translations Based on VPID) instructions.
    On hosts with an Intel processor and invppid VM exit     support, an unprivileged guest user could use these     instructions to crash the guest.(CVE-2014-3646i1/4%0

  - An attacker on a network could abuse a flaw in the IPv6     stack fragment reassembly code to induce kernel memory     corruption on the system, possibly leading to a system     crash.(CVE-2016-9755i1/4%0

  - It was found that a regular user could remove xattr     permissions on files by using the chown or write system     calls. A local attacker could use this flaw to deny     elevated permissions from valid users, services, or     applications, potentially resulting in a denial of     service.(CVE-2015-1350i1/4%0

  - arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S in the Linux     kernel through 4.7 on PowerPC platforms, when     CONFIG_KVM_BOOK3S_64_HV is enabled, allows guest OS     users to cause a denial of service (host OS infinite     loop) by making a H_CEDE hypercall during the existence     of a suspended transaction.(CVE-2016-5412i1/4%0

  - An issue was discovered in the proc_pid_stack function     in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel. An attacker with     a local account can trick the stack unwinder code to     leak stack contents to userspace. The fix allows only     root to inspect the kernel stack of an arbitrary     task.(CVE-2018-17972i1/4%0

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

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's futex     subsystem handled the requeuing of certain Priority     Inheritance (PI) futexes. A local, unprivileged user     could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the     system.(CVE-2014-3153)

  - An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way the     Apple Magic Mouse/Trackpad multi-touch driver handled     Human Interface Device (HID) reports with an invalid     size. An attacker with physical access to the system     could use this flaw to crash the system or,     potentially, escalate their privileges on the     system.(CVE-2014-3181)

  - An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the way the     Logitech Unifying receiver driver handled HID reports     with an invalid device_index value. An attacker with     physical access to the system could use this flaw to     crash the system or, potentially, escalate their     privileges on the system.(CVE-2014-3182)

  - Multiple out-of-bounds write flaws were found in the     way the Cherry Cymotion keyboard driver, KYE/Genius     device drivers, Logitech device drivers, Monterey     Genius KB29E keyboard driver, Petalynx Maxter remote     control driver, and Sunplus wireless desktop driver     handled HID reports with an invalid report descriptor     size. An attacker with physical access to the system     could use either of these flaws to write data past an     allocated memory buffer.(CVE-2014-3184)

  - A memory corruption flaw was found in the way the USB     ConnectTech WhiteHEAT serial driver processed     completion commands sent via USB Request Blocks     buffers. An attacker with physical access to the system     could use this flaw to crash the system or,     potentially, escalate their privileges on the     system.(CVE-2014-3185)

  - It was found that Linux kernel's ptrace subsystem did     not properly sanitize the address-space-control bits     when the program-status word (PSW) was being set. On     IBM S/390 systems, a local, unprivileged user could use     this flaw to set address-space-control bits to the     kernel space, and thus gain read and write access to     kernel memory.(CVE-2014-3534)

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's     kvm_iommu_map_pages() function handled IOMMU mapping     failures. A privileged user in a guest with an assigned     host device could use this flaw to crash the     host.(CVE-2014-3601)

  - It was found that KVM's Write to Model Specific     Register (WRMSR) instruction emulation would write     non-canonical values passed in by the guest to certain     MSRs in the host's context. A privileged guest user     could use this flaw to crash the host.(CVE-2014-3610)

  - A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux     kernel's KVM subsystem handled PIT (Programmable     Interval Timer) emulation. A guest user who has access     to the PIT I/O ports could use this flaw to crash the     host.(CVE-2014-3611)

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's keys     subsystem handled the termination condition in the     associative array garbage collection functionality. A     local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash     the system.(CVE-2014-3631)

  - It was found that the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem did     not handle the VM exits gracefully for the invept     (Invalidate Translations Derived from EPT)     instructions. On hosts with an Intel processor and     invept VM exit support, an unprivileged guest user     could use these instructions to crash the     guest.(CVE-2014-3645)

  - It was found that the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem did     not handle the VM exits gracefully for the invvpid     (Invalidate Translations Based on VPID) instructions.
    On hosts with an Intel processor and invppid VM exit     support, an unprivileged guest user could use these     instructions to crash the guest.(CVE-2014-3646)

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM     subsystem handled non-canonical addresses when     emulating instructions that change the RIP (for     example, branches or calls). A guest user with access     to an I/O or MMIO region could use this flaw to crash     the guest.(CVE-2014-3647)

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Stream     Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation     handled malformed Address Configuration Change Chunks     (ASCONF). A remote attacker could use either of these     flaws to crash the system.(CVE-2014-3673)

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Stream     Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation     handled duplicate Address Configuration Change Chunks     (ASCONF). A remote attacker could use either of these     flaws to crash the system.(CVE-2014-3687)

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Stream     Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation     handled the association's output queue. A remote     attacker could send specially crafted packets that     would cause the system to use an excessive amount of     memory, leading to a denial of service.(CVE-2014-3688)

  - It was found that the Linux kernel's KVM implementation     did not ensure that the host CR4 control register value     remained unchanged across VM entries on the same     virtual CPU. A local, unprivileged user could use this     flaw to cause a denial of service on the     system.(CVE-2014-3690)

  - An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the     Linux kernel's system call auditing implementation. On     a system with existing audit rules defined, a local,     unprivileged user could use this flaw to leak kernel     memory to user space or, potentially, crash the     system.(CVE-2014-3917)

  - A flaw was found in the way Linux kernel's Transparent     Huge Pages (THP) implementation handled non-huge page     migration. A local, unprivileged user could use this     flaw to crash the kernel by migrating transparent     hugepages.(CVE-2014-3940)

  - The capabilities implementation in the Linux kernel     before 3.14.8 does not properly consider that     namespaces are inapplicable to inodes, which allows     local users to bypass intended chmod restrictions by     first creating a user namespace, as demonstrated by     setting the setgid bit on a file with group ownership     of root.(CVE-2014-4014)

  - An information leak flaw was found in the RAM Disks     Memory Copy (rd_mcp) backend driver of the iSCSI Target     subsystem of the Linux kernel. A privileged user could     use this flaw to leak the contents of kernel memory to     an iSCSI initiator remote client.(CVE-2014-4027)

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

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2017-0057 for details.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 2 LTSS kernel has been updated to fix security issues on kernels on the x86_64 architecture.

The following security bugs have been fixed :

  - CVE-2012-4398: The __request_module function in     kernel/kmod.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4 did not set     a certain killable attribute, which allowed local users     to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a     crafted application (bnc#779488).

  - CVE-2013-2893: The Human Interface Device (HID)     subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when     CONFIG_LOGITECH_FF, CONFIG_LOGIG940_FF, or     CONFIG_LOGIWHEELS_FF is enabled, allowed physically     proximate attackers to cause a denial of service     (heap-based out-of-bounds write) via a crafted device,     related to (1) drivers/hid/hid-lgff.c, (2)     drivers/hid/hid-lg3ff.c, and (3) drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.c     (bnc#835839).

  - CVE-2013-2897: Multiple array index errors in     drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c in the Human Interface     Device (HID) subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11,     when CONFIG_HID_MULTITOUCH is enabled, allowed     physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of     service (heap memory corruption, or NULL pointer     dereference and OOPS) via a crafted device (bnc#835839).

  - CVE-2013-2899: drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c in the     Human Interface Device (HID) subsystem in the Linux     kernel through 3.11, when CONFIG_HID_PICOLCD is enabled,     allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial     of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) via a     crafted device (bnc#835839).

  - CVE-2013-2929: The Linux kernel before 3.12.2 did not     properly use the get_dumpable function, which allowed     local users to bypass intended ptrace restrictions or     obtain sensitive information from IA64 scratch registers     via a crafted application, related to kernel/ptrace.c     and arch/ia64/include/asm/processor.h (bnc#847652).

  - CVE-2013-7263: The Linux kernel before 3.12.4 updates     certain length values before ensuring that associated     data structures have been initialized, which allowed     local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel     stack memory via a (1) recvfrom, (2) recvmmsg, or (3)     recvmsg system call, related to net/ipv4/ping.c,     net/ipv4/raw.c, net/ipv4/udp.c, net/ipv6/raw.c, and     net/ipv6/udp.c (bnc#857643).

  - CVE-2014-0131: Use-after-free vulnerability in the     skb_segment function in net/core/skbuff.c in the Linux     kernel through 3.13.6 allowed attackers to obtain     sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging     the absence of a certain orphaning operation     (bnc#867723).

  - CVE-2014-0181: The Netlink implementation in the Linux     kernel through 3.14.1 did not provide a mechanism for     authorizing socket operations based on the opener of a     socket, which allowed local users to bypass intended     access restrictions and modify network configurations by     using a Netlink socket for the (1) stdout or (2) stderr     of a setuid program (bnc#875051).

  - CVE-2014-2309: The ip6_route_add function in     net/ipv6/route.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.6 did     not properly count the addition of routes, which allowed     remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory     consumption) via a flood of ICMPv6 Router Advertisement     packets (bnc#867531).

  - CVE-2014-3181: Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in     the magicmouse_raw_event function in     drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c in the Magic Mouse HID     driver in the Linux kernel through 3.16.3 allowed     physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of     service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary     code via a crafted device that provides a large amount     of (1) EHCI or (2) XHCI data associated with an event     (bnc#896382).

  - CVE-2014-3184: The report_fixup functions in the HID     subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.16.2 might have     allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial     of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted device     that provides a small report descriptor, related to (1)     drivers/hid/hid-cherry.c, (2) drivers/hid/hid-kye.c, (3)     drivers/hid/hid-lg.c, (4) drivers/hid/hid-monterey.c,     (5) drivers/hid/hid-petalynx.c, and (6)     drivers/hid/hid-sunplus.c (bnc#896390).

  - CVE-2014-3185: Multiple buffer overflows in the     command_port_read_callback function in     drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c in the Whiteheat USB     Serial Driver in the Linux kernel before 3.16.2 allowed     physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code     or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and     system crash) via a crafted device that provides a large     amount of (1) EHCI or (2) XHCI data associated with a     bulk response (bnc#896391).

  - CVE-2014-3186: Buffer overflow in the picolcd_raw_event     function in devices/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c in the     PicoLCD HID device driver in the Linux kernel through     3.16.3, as used in Android on Nexus 7 devices, allowed     physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of     service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary     code via a crafted device that sends a large report     (bnc#896392).

  - CVE-2014-3601: The kvm_iommu_map_pages function in     virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1     miscalculates the number of pages during the handling of     a mapping failure, which allowed guest OS users to (1)     cause a denial of service (host OS memory corruption) or     possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a     large gfn value or (2) cause a denial of service (host     OS memory consumption) by triggering a small gfn value     that leads to permanently pinned pages (bnc#892782).

  - CVE-2014-3610: The WRMSR processing functionality in the     KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 did not     properly handle the writing of a non-canonical address     to a model-specific register, which allowed guest OS     users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by     leveraging guest OS privileges, related to the     wrmsr_interception function in arch/x86/kvm/svm.c and     the handle_wrmsr function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c     (bnc#899192).

  - CVE-2014-3646: arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem     in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 did not have an exit     handler for the INVVPID instruction, which allowed guest     OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash)     via a crafted application (bnc#899192).

  - CVE-2014-3647: arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the KVM     subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 did not     properly perform RIP changes, which allowed guest OS     users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via     a crafted application (bnc#899192).

  - CVE-2014-3673: The SCTP implementation in the Linux     kernel through 3.17.2 allowed remote attackers to cause     a denial of service (system crash) via a malformed     ASCONF chunk, related to net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c and     net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c (bnc#902346).

  - CVE-2014-3687: The sctp_assoc_lookup_asconf_ack function     in net/sctp/associola.c in the SCTP implementation in     the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 allowed remote attackers     to cause a denial of service (panic) via duplicate     ASCONF chunks that trigger an incorrect uncork within     the side-effect interpreter (bnc#902349).

  - CVE-2014-3688: The SCTP implementation in the Linux     kernel before 3.17.4 allowed remote attackers to cause a     denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering a     large number of chunks in an associations output queue,     as demonstrated by ASCONF probes, related to     net/sctp/inqueue.c and net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c     (bnc#902351).

  - CVE-2014-3690: arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem     in the Linux kernel before 3.17.2 on Intel processors     did not ensure that the value in the CR4 control     register remains the same after a VM entry, which     allowed host OS users to kill arbitrary processes or     cause a denial of service (system disruption) by     leveraging /dev/kvm access, as demonstrated by     PR_SET_TSC prctl calls within a modified copy of QEMU     (bnc#902232).

  - CVE-2014-4608: Multiple integer overflows in the     lzo1x_decompress_safe function in     lib/lzo/lzo1x_decompress_safe.c in the LZO decompressor     in the Linux kernel before 3.15.2 allowed     context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service     (memory corruption) via a crafted Literal Run     (bnc#883948).

  - CVE-2014-4943: The PPPoL2TP feature in     net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.6     allowed local users to gain privileges by leveraging     data-structure differences between an l2tp socket and an     inet socket (bnc#887082).

  - CVE-2014-5471: Stack consumption vulnerability in the     parse_rock_ridge_inode_internal function in     fs/isofs/rock.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1     allowed local users to cause a denial of service     (uncontrolled recursion, and system crash or reboot) via     a crafted iso9660 image with a CL entry referring to a     directory entry that has a CL entry (bnc#892490).

  - CVE-2014-5472: The parse_rock_ridge_inode_internal     function in fs/isofs/rock.c in the Linux kernel through     3.16.1 allowed local users to cause a denial of service     (unkillable mount process) via a crafted iso9660 image     with a self-referential CL entry (bnc#892490).

  - CVE-2014-7826: kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c in the     Linux kernel through 3.17.2 did not properly handle     private syscall numbers during use of the ftrace     subsystem, which allowed local users to gain privileges     or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer     dereference) via a crafted application (bnc#904013).

  - CVE-2014-7841: The sctp_process_param function in     net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c in the SCTP implementation in     the Linux kernel before 3.17.4, when ASCONF is used,     allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a     malformed INIT chunk (bnc#905100).

  - CVE-2014-7842: Race condition in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in     the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allowed guest OS users to     cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via a crafted     application that performs an MMIO transaction or a PIO     transaction to trigger a guest userspace emulation error     report, a similar issue to CVE-2010-5313 (bnc#905312).

  - CVE-2014-8134: The paravirt_ops_setup function in     arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c in the Linux kernel through 3.18     uses an improper paravirt_enabled setting for KVM guest     kernels, which made it easier for guest OS users to     bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted     application that reads a 16-bit value (bnc#909078).

  - CVE-2014-8369: The kvm_iommu_map_pages function in     virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2     miscalculates the number of pages during the handling of     a mapping failure, which allowed guest OS users to cause     a denial of service (host OS page unpinning) or possibly     have unspecified other impact by leveraging guest OS     privileges. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of     an incorrect fix for CVE-2014-3601 (bnc#902675).

  - CVE-2014-8559: The d_walk function in fs/dcache.c in the     Linux kernel through 3.17.2 did not properly maintain     the semantics of rename_lock, which allowed local users     to cause a denial of service (deadlock and system hang)     via a crafted application (bnc#903640).

  - CVE-2014-8709: The ieee80211_fragment function in     net/mac80211/tx.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.5 did     not properly maintain a certain tail pointer, which     allowed remote attackers to obtain sensitive cleartext     information by reading packets (bnc#904700).

  - CVE-2014-9584: The parse_rock_ridge_inode_internal     function in fs/isofs/rock.c in the Linux kernel before     3.18.2 did not validate a length value in the Extensions     Reference (ER) System Use Field, which allowed local     users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory     via a crafted iso9660 image (bnc#912654).

  - CVE-2014-9585: The vdso_addr function in     arch/x86/vdso/vma.c in the Linux kernel through 3.18.2     did not properly choose memory locations for the vDSO     area, which made it easier for local users to bypass the     ASLR protection mechanism by guessing a location at the     end of a PMD (bnc#912705).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

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 remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-0290 advisory.

  - arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.17.2 on Intel processors does not     ensure that the value in the CR4 control register remains the same after a VM entry, which allows host OS     users to kill arbitrary processes or cause a denial of service (system disruption) by leveraging /dev/kvm     access, as demonstrated by PR_SET_TSC prctl calls within a modified copy of QEMU. (CVE-2014-3690)

  - The Linux kernel through 3.14.5 does not properly consider the presence of hugetlb entries, which allows     local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or system crash) by accessing certain memory     locations, as demonstrated by triggering a race condition via numa_maps read operations during hugepage     migration, related to fs/proc/task_mmu.c and mm/mempolicy.c. (CVE-2014-3940)

  - kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle private syscall     numbers during use of the perf subsystem, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-     bounds read and OOPS) or bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted application. (CVE-2014-7825)

  - kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle private syscall     numbers during use of the ftrace subsystem, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial     of service (invalid pointer dereference) via a crafted application. (CVE-2014-7826)

  - Race condition in the ext4_file_write_iter function in fs/ext4/file.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17     allows local users to cause a denial of service (file unavailability) via a combination of a write action     and an F_SETFL fcntl operation for the O_DIRECT flag. (CVE-2014-8086)

  - net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_generic.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18 generates incorrect conntrack     entries during handling of certain iptables rule sets for the SCTP, DCCP, GRE, and UDP-Lite protocols,     which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via packets with disallowed port     numbers. (CVE-2014-8160)

  - The filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.13 performs certain operations on lists of     files with an inappropriate locking approach, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (soft     lockup or system crash) via unspecified use of Asynchronous I/O (AIO) operations. (CVE-2014-8172)

  - The pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad function in include/asm-generic/pgtable.h in the Linux kernel     before 3.13 on NUMA systems does not properly determine whether a Page Middle Directory (PMD) entry is a     transparent huge-table entry, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer     dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted MADV_WILLNEED     madvise system call that leverages the absence of a page-table lock. (CVE-2014-8173)

  - The ieee80211_fragment function in net/mac80211/tx.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.5 does not properly     maintain a certain tail pointer, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive cleartext information     by reading packets. (CVE-2014-8709)

  - Stack-based buffer overflow in the ttusbdecfe_dvbs_diseqc_send_master_cmd function in     drivers/media/usb/ttusb-dec/ttusbdecfe.c in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows local users to cause a     denial of service (system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a large message length in an ioctl call.
    (CVE-2014-8884)

  - The XFS implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.15 improperly uses an old size value during remote     attribute replacement, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (transaction overrun and data     corruption) or possibly gain privileges by leveraging XFS filesystem access. (CVE-2015-0274)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

* A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem handled PIT (Programmable Interval Timer) emulation. A guest user who has access to the PIT I/O ports could use this flaw to crash the host. (CVE-2014-3611, Important)

* A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's SCTP implementation validated INIT chunks when performing Address Configuration Change (ASCONF). A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system by sending a specially crafted SCTP packet to trigger a NULL pointer dereference on the system. (CVE-2014-7841, Important)

* A flaw was found in the way the ipc_rcu_putref() function in the Linux kernel's IPC implementation handled reference counter decrementing. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to trigger an Out of Memory (OOM) condition and, potentially, crash the system. (CVE-2013-4483, Moderate)

* A memory corruption flaw was found in the way the USB ConnectTech WhiteHEAT serial driver processed completion commands sent via USB Request Blocks buffers. An attacker with physical access to the system could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2014-3185, Moderate)

* It was found that the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem did not handle the VM exits gracefully for the invept (Invalidate Translations Derived from EPT) and invvpid (Invalidate Translations Based on VPID) instructions. On hosts with an Intel processor and invept/invppid VM exit support, an unprivileged guest user could use these instructions to crash the guest. (CVE-2014-3645, CVE-2014-3646, Moderate)

* A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's netfilter subsystem handled generic protocol tracking. As demonstrated in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) case, a remote attacker could use this flaw to bypass intended iptables rule restrictions when the associated connection tracking module was not loaded on the system.
(CVE-2014-8160, Moderate)

Red Hat would like to thank Lars Bull of Google for reporting CVE-2014-3611, Vladimir Davydov (Parallels) for reporting CVE-2013-4483, and the Advanced Threat Research team at Intel Security for reporting CVE-2014-3645 and CVE-2014-3646. The CVE-2014-7841 issue was discovered by Liu Wei of Red Hat.

Bug fixes :

* When forwarding a packet, the iptables target TCPOPTSTRIP used the tcp_hdr() function to locate the option space. Consequently, TCPOPTSTRIP located the incorrect place in the packet, and therefore did not match options for stripping. TCPOPTSTRIP now uses the TCP header itself to locate the option space, and the options are now properly stripped. (BZ#1172026)

* The ipset utility computed incorrect values of timeouts from an old IP set, and these values were then supplied to a new IP set. A resize on an IP set with a timeouts option enabled could then supply corrupted data from an old IP set. This bug has been fixed by properly reading timeout values from an old set before supplying them to a new set. (BZ#1172763)

* Incorrect processing of errors from the BCM5719 LAN controller could result in incoming packets being dropped. Now, received errors are handled properly, and incoming packets are no longer randomly dropped.
(BZ#1180405)

* When the NVMe driver allocated a name-space queue, it was recognized as a request-based driver, whereas it was a BIO-based driver. While trying to access data during the loading of NVMe along with a request-based DM device, the system could terminate unexpectedly or become unresponsive. Now, NVMe does not set the QUEUE_FLAG_STACKABLE flag during the allocation of a name-space queue, and the system no longer attempts to insert a request into the queue, preventing a crash. (BZ#1180554)

All kernel users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:0126 advisory.

    The rhev-hypervisor6 package provides a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization     Hypervisor ISO disk image. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor     is a dedicated Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor. It includes     everything necessary to run and manage virtual machines: a subset of the     Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating environment and the Red Hat Enterprise     Virtualization Agent.

    Note: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is only available for     the Intel 64 and AMD64 architectures with virtualization extensions.

    A heap-based buffer overflow was found in glibc's
    __nss_hostname_digits_dots() function, which is used by the gethostbyname()     and gethostbyname2() glibc function calls. A remote attacker able to make     an application call either of these functions could use this flaw to     execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the     application. (CVE-2015-0235)

    A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem     handled PIT (Programmable Interval Timer) emulation. A guest user who has     access to the PIT I/O ports could use this flaw to crash the host.
    (CVE-2014-3611)

    A flaw was found in the way OpenSSL handled fragmented handshake packets.
    A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to force a TLS/SSL server     using OpenSSL to use TLS 1.0, even if both the client and the server     supported newer protocol versions. (CVE-2014-3511)

    A memory leak flaw was found in the way an OpenSSL handled failed session     ticket integrity checks. A remote attacker could exhaust all available     memory of an SSL/TLS or DTLS server by sending a large number of invalid     session tickets to that server. (CVE-2014-3567)

    It was found that the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem did not handle the VM     exits gracefully for the invept (Invalidate Translations Derived from EPT)     and invvpid (Invalidate Translations Based on VPID) instructions. On hosts     with an Intel processor and invept/invppid VM exit support, an unprivileged     guest user could use these instructions to crash the guest. (CVE-2014-3645,     CVE-2014-3646)

    Red Hat would like to thank Qualys for reporting the CVE-2015-0235 issue,     Lars Bull of Google for reporting the CVE-2014-3611 issue, and the Advanced     Threat Research team at Intel Security for reporting the CVE-2014-3645 and     CVE-2014-3646 issues.

    Users of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor are advised to     upgrade to this updated package.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3 kernel has been updated to fix various bugs and security issues.

The following security bugs have been fixed :

  - The __request_module function in kernel/kmod.c in the     Linux kernel before 3.4 did not set a certain killable     attribute, which allowed local users to cause a denial     of service (memory consumption) via a crafted     application. (bnc#779488). (CVE-2012-4398)

  - drivers/hid/hid-zpff.c in the Human Interface Device     (HID) subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when     CONFIG_HID_ZEROPLUS is enabled, allowed physically     proximate attackers to cause a denial of service     (heap-based out-of-bounds write) via a crafted device.
    (bnc#835839). (CVE-2013-2889)

  - The Human Interface Device (HID) subsystem in the Linux     kernel through 3.11, when CONFIG_LOGITECH_FF,     CONFIG_LOGIG940_FF, or CONFIG_LOGIWHEELS_FF is enabled,     allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial     of service (heap-based out-of-bounds write) via a     crafted device, related to (1) drivers/hid/hid-lgff.c,     (2) drivers/hid/hid-lg3ff.c, and (3)     drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.c. (bnc#835839). (CVE-2013-2893)

  - Multiple array index errors in     drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c in the Human Interface     Device (HID) subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11,     when CONFIG_HID_MULTITOUCH is enabled, allowed     physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of     service (heap memory corruption, or NULL pointer     dereference and OOPS) via a crafted device.
    (bnc#835839). (CVE-2013-2897)

  - drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c in the Human Interface     Device (HID) subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11,     when CONFIG_HID_PICOLCD is enabled, allowed physically     proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL     pointer dereference and OOPS) via a crafted device.
    (bnc#835839). (CVE-2013-2899)

  - The Linux kernel before 3.12.4 updates certain length     values before ensuring that associated data structures     have been initialized, which allowed local users to     obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory     via a (1) recvfrom, (2) recvmmsg, or (3) recvmsg system     call, related to net/ipv4/ping.c, net/ipv4/raw.c,     net/ipv4/udp.c, net/ipv6/raw.c, and net/ipv6/udp.c.
    (bnc#853040, bnc#857643). (CVE-2013-7263)

  - Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the     magicmouse_raw_event function in     drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c in the Magic Mouse HID     driver in the Linux kernel through 3.16.3 allowed     physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of     service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary     code via a crafted device that provides a large amount     of (1) EHCI or (2) XHCI data associated with an event.
    (bnc#896382). (CVE-2014-3181)

  - The report_fixup functions in the HID subsystem in the     Linux kernel before 3.16.2 allowed physically proximate     attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds     write) via a crafted device that provides a small report     descriptor, related to (1) drivers/hid/hid-cherry.c, (2)     drivers/hid/hid-kye.c, (3) drivers/hid/hid-lg.c, (4)     drivers/hid/hid-monterey.c, (5)     drivers/hid/hid-petalynx.c, and (6)     drivers/hid/hid-sunplus.c. (bnc#896390). (CVE-2014-3184)

  - Multiple buffer overflows in the     command_port_read_callback function in     drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c in the Whiteheat USB     Serial Driver in the Linux kernel before 3.16.2 allowed     physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code     or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and     system crash) via a crafted device that provides a large     amount of (1) EHCI or (2) XHCI data associated with a     bulk response. (bnc#896391). (CVE-2014-3185)

  - Buffer overflow in the picolcd_raw_event function in     devices/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c in the PicoLCD HID device     driver in the Linux kernel through 3.16.3, as used in     Android on Nexus 7 devices, allowed physically proximate     attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted device     that sends a large report. (bnc#896392). (CVE-2014-3186)

  - The kvm_iommu_map_pages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in     the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 miscalculated the number     of pages during the handling of a mapping failure, which     allowed guest OS users to (1) cause a denial of service     (host OS memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified     other impact by triggering a large gfn value or (2)     cause a denial of service (host OS memory consumption)     by triggering a small gfn value that leads to     permanently pinned pages. (bnc#892782). (CVE-2014-3601)

  - The WRMSR processing functionality in the KVM subsystem     in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 did not properly     handle the writing of a non-canonical address to a     model-specific register, which allowed guest OS users to     cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging     guest OS privileges, related to the wrmsr_interception     function in arch/x86/kvm/svm.c and the handle_wrmsr     function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c. (bnc#899192).
    (CVE-2014-3610)

  - arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux     kernel through 3.17.2 did not have an exit handler for     the INVVPID instruction, which allowed guest OS users to     cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via a crafted     application. (bnc#899192). (CVE-2014-3646)

  - arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux     kernel through 3.17.2 did not properly perform RIP     changes, which allowed guest OS users to cause a denial     of service (guest OS crash) via a crafted application.
    (bnc#899192). (CVE-2014-3647)

  - The SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel through     3.17.2 allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of     service (system crash) via a malformed ASCONF chunk,     related to net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c and     net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c. (bnc#902346, bnc#902349).
    (CVE-2014-3673)

  - arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S in the Linux kernel through     3.15.1 on 32-bit x86 platforms, when syscall auditing is     enabled and the sep CPU feature flag is set, allowed     local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS and     system crash) via an invalid syscall number, as     demonstrated by number 1000. (bnc#883724).
    (CVE-2014-4508)

  - * DISPUTED * Multiple integer overflows in the     lzo1x_decompress_safe function in     lib/lzo/lzo1x_decompress_safe.c in the LZO decompressor     in the Linux kernel before 3.15.2 allowed     context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service     (memory corruption) via a crafted Literal Run. NOTE: the     author of the LZO algorithms says: The Linux kernel is     not affected; media hype. (bnc#883948). (CVE-2014-4608)

  - kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c in the Linux kernel     through 3.17.2 did not properly handle private syscall     numbers during use of the ftrace subsystem, which     allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial     of service (invalid pointer dereference) via a crafted     application. (bnc#904013). (CVE-2014-7826)

  - An SCTP server doing ASCONF would panic on malformed     INIT ping-of-death. (bnc#905100). (CVE-2014-7841)

  - The ieee80211_fragment function in net/mac80211/tx.c in     the Linux kernel before 3.13.5 did not properly maintain     a certain tail pointer, which allowed remote attackers     to obtain sensitive cleartext information by reading     packets. (bnc#904700). (CVE-2014-8709)

  - A local user with write access could have used this flaw     to crash the kernel or elevate privileges (bnc#905522).
    The following non-security bugs have been fixed:.
    (CVE-2014-8884)

  - Build the KOTD against the SP3 Update project

  - HID: fix kabi breakage.

  - NFS: Provide stub nfs_fscache_wait_on_invalidate() for     when CONFIG_NFS_FSCACHE=n.

  - NFS: fix inverted test for delegation in     nfs4_reclaim_open_state. (bnc#903331)

  - NFS: remove incorrect Lock reclaim failed! warning.
    (bnc#903331)

  - NFSv4: nfs4_open_done first must check that GETATTR     decoded a file type. (bnc#899574)

  - PCI: pciehp: Clear Data Link Layer State Changed during     init. (bnc#898295)

  - PCI: pciehp: Enable link state change notifications.
    (bnc#898295)

  - PCI: pciehp: Handle push button event asynchronously.
    (bnc#898295)

  - PCI: pciehp: Make check_link_active() non-static.
    (bnc#898295)

  - PCI: pciehp: Use link change notifications for hot-plug     and removal. (bnc#898295)

  - PCI: pciehp: Use per-slot workqueues to avoid deadlock.
    (bnc#898295)

  - PCI: pciehp: Use symbolic constants, not hard-coded     bitmask. (bnc#898295)

  - PM / hibernate: Iterate over set bits instead of PFNs in     swsusp_free(). (bnc#860441)

  - be2net: Fix invocation of be_close() after be_clear().
    (bnc#895468)

  - block: Fix bogus partition statistics reports.
    (bnc#885077 / bnc#891211)

  - block: Fix computation of merged request priority.

  - btrfs: Fix wrong device size when we are resizing the     device.

  - btrfs: Return right extent when fiemap gives unaligned     offset and len.

  - btrfs: abtract out range locking in clone ioctl().

  - btrfs: always choose work from prio_head first.

  - btrfs: balance delayed inode updates.

  - btrfs: cache extent states in defrag code path.

  - btrfs: check file extent type before anything else.
    (bnc#897694)

  - btrfs: clone, do not create invalid hole extent map.

  - btrfs: correctly determine if blocks are shared in     btrfs_compare_trees.

  - btrfs: do not bug_on if we try to cow a free space cache     inode.

  - btrfs: ensure btrfs_prev_leaf does not miss 1 item.

  - btrfs: ensure readers see new data after a clone     operation.

  - btrfs: fill_holes: Fix slot number passed to     hole_mergeable() call.

  - btrfs: filter invalid arg for btrfs resize.

  - btrfs: fix EINVAL checks in btrfs_clone.

  - btrfs: fix EIO on reading file after ioctl clone works     on it.

  - btrfs: fix a crash of clone with inline extents split.

  - btrfs: fix crash of compressed writes. (bnc#898375)

  - btrfs: fix crash when starting transaction.

  - btrfs: fix deadlock with nested trans handles.

  - btrfs: fix hang on error (such as ENOSPC) when writing     extent pages.

  - btrfs: fix leaf corruption after __btrfs_drop_extents.

  - btrfs: fix race between balance recovery and root     deletion.

  - btrfs: fix wrong extent mapping for DirectIO.

  - btrfs: handle a missing extent for the first file     extent.

  - btrfs: limit delalloc pages outside of     find_delalloc_range. (bnc#898375)

  - btrfs: read lock extent buffer while walking backrefs.

  - btrfs: remove unused wait queue in struct extent_buffer.

  - btrfs: replace EINVAL with ERANGE for resize when     ULLONG_MAX.

  - btrfs: replace error code from btrfs_drop_extents.

  - btrfs: unlock extent and pages on error in     cow_file_range.

  - btrfs: unlock inodes in correct order in clone ioctl.

  - btrfs_ioctl_clone: Move clone code into its own     function.

  - cifs: delay super block destruction until all     cifsFileInfo objects are gone. (bnc#903653)

  - drm/i915: Flush the PTEs after updating them before     suspend. (bnc#901638)

  - drm/i915: Undo gtt scratch pte unmapping again.
    (bnc#901638)

  - ext3: return 32/64-bit dir name hash according to usage     type. (bnc#898554)

  - ext4: return 32/64-bit dir name hash according to usage     type. (bnc#898554)

  - fix: use after free of xfs workqueues. (bnc#894895)

  - fs: add new FMODE flags: FMODE_32bithash and     FMODE_64bithash. (bnc#898554)

  - futex: Ensure get_futex_key_refs() always implies a     barrier (bnc#851603 (futex scalability series)).

  - futex: Fix a race condition between REQUEUE_PI and task     death (bnc#851603 (futex scalability series)).

  - ipv6: add support of peer address. (bnc#896415)

  - ipv6: fix a refcnt leak with peer addr. (bnc#896415)

  - megaraid_sas: Disable fastpath writes for non-RAID0.
    (bnc#897502)

  - mm: change __remove_pages() to call     release_mem_region_adjustable(). (bnc#891790)

  - netxen: Fix link event handling. (bnc#873228)

  - netxen: fix link notification order. (bnc#873228)

  - nfsd: rename int access to int may_flags in nfsd_open().
    (bnc#898554)

  - nfsd: vfs_llseek() with 32 or 64 bit offsets (hashes).
    (bnc#898554)

  - ocfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in     ocfs2_duplicate_clusters_by_page. (bnc#899843)

  - powerpc: Add smp_mb() to arch_spin_is_locked()     (bsc#893758).

  - powerpc: Add smp_mb()s to arch_spin_unlock_wait()     (bsc#893758).

  - powerpc: Add support for the optimised lockref     implementation (bsc#893758).

  - powerpc: Implement arch_spin_is_locked() using     arch_spin_value_unlocked() (bsc#893758).

  - refresh patches.xen/xen-blkback-multi-page-ring     (bnc#897708)).

  - remove filesize checks for sync I/O journal commit.
    (bnc#800255)

  - resource: add __adjust_resource() for internal use.
    (bnc#891790)

  - resource: add release_mem_region_adjustable().
    (bnc#891790)

  - revert PM / Hibernate: Iterate over set bits instead of     PFNs in swsusp_free(). (bnc#860441)

  - rpm/mkspec: Generate specfiles according to Factory     requirements.

  - rpm/mkspec: Generate a per-architecture per-package
    _constraints file

  - sched: Fix unreleased llc_shared_mask bit during CPU     hotplug. (bnc#891368)

  - scsi_dh_alua: disable ALUA handling for non-disk     devices. (bnc#876633)

  - usb: Do not re-read descriptors for wired devices in     usb_authorize_device(). (bnc#904358)

  - usbback: Do not access request fields in shared ring     more than once.

  - usbhid: add another mouse that needs QUIRK_ALWAYS_POLL.
    (bnc#888607)

  - vfs,proc: guarantee unique inodes in /proc. (bnc#868049)

  - x86, cpu hotplug: Fix stack frame warning     incheck_irq_vectors_for_cpu_disable(). (bnc#887418)

  - x86, ioremap: Speed up check for RAM pages (Boot time     optimisations (bnc#895387)).

  - x86: Add check for number of available vectors before     CPU down. (bnc#887418)

  - x86: optimize resource lookups for ioremap (Boot time     optimisations (bnc#895387)).

  - x86: use optimized ioresource lookup in ioremap function     (Boot time optimisations (bnc#895387)).

  - xfs: Do not free EFIs before the EFDs are committed     (bsc#755743).

  - xfs: Do not reference the EFI after it is freed     (bsc#755743).

  - xfs: fix cil push sequence after log recovery     (bsc#755743).

  - zcrypt: support for extended number of ap domains     (bnc#894058, LTC#117041).

  - zcrypt: toleration of new crypto adapter hardware     (bnc#894058, LTC#117041).

CVE-2014-3185

Multiple buffer overflows in the command_port_read_callback function in drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c in the Whiteheat USB Serial Driver in the Linux kernel before 3.16.2 allow physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) via a crafted device that provides a large amount of (1) EHCI or (2) XHCI data associated with a bulk response.

CVE-2014-3611 Race condition in the __kvm_migrate_pit_timer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging incorrect PIT emulation.

CVE-2014-3645 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.12 does not have an exit handler for the INVEPT instruction, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via a crafted application.

CVE-2014-3646 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not have an exit handler for the INVVPID instruction, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via a crafted application.

Impact

An attacker may be able to gain access to unauthorized information, perform unauthorized modification of data, or cause disruption of services. CVE-2014-3185 require physical access to the device.
CVE-2014-3611, CVE-2014-3645, and CVE-2014-3646 are considered local, as they are exploitable only by an authenticated user.

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in the Linux kernel :

The WRMSR processing functionality in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle the writing of a non-canonical address to a model-specific register, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging guest OS privileges, related to the wrmsr_interception function in arch/x86/kvm/svm.c and the handle_wrmsr function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c (CVE-2014-3610).

Race condition in the __kvm_migrate_pit_timer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging incorrect PIT emulation (CVE-2014-3611).

arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.12 does not have an exit handler for the INVEPT instruction, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via a crafted application (CVE-2014-3645).

arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not have an exit handler for the INVVPID instruction, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via a crafted application (CVE-2014-3646).

arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly perform RIP changes, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via a crafted application (CVE-2014-3647).

The SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a malformed ASCONF chunk, related to net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c and net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c (CVE-2014-3673).

The sctp_assoc_lookup_asconf_ack function in net/sctp/associola.c in the SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via duplicate ASCONF chunks that trigger an incorrect uncork within the side-effect interpreter (CVE-2014-3687).

arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.17.2 on Intel processors does not ensure that the value in the CR4 control register remains the same after a VM entry, which allows host OS users to kill arbitrary processes or cause a denial of service (system disruption) by leveraging /dev/kvm access, as demonstrated by PR_SET_TSC prctl calls within a modified copy of QEMU (CVE-2014-3690).

kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle private syscall numbers during use of the perf subsystem, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and OOPS) or bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted application (CVE-2014-7825).

kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle private syscall numbers during use of the ftrace subsystem, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via a crafted application (CVE-2014-7826).

The pivot_root implementation in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 does not properly interact with certain locations of a chroot directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (mount-tree loop) via . (dot) values in both arguments to the pivot_root system call (CVE-2014-7970).

The kvm_iommu_map_pages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 miscalculates the number of pages during the handling of a mapping failure, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS page unpinning) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging guest OS privileges. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2014-3601 (CVE-2014-8369).

The updated packages provides a solution for these security issues.

Nadav Amit reported that the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) mishandles noncanonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the rip (Instruction Pointer). A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can use this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) of the guest. (CVE-2014-3647)

A flaw was discovered with the handling of the invept instruction in the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) subsystem of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged guest user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) on the guest. (CVE-2014-3646)

A flaw was discovered with invept instruction support when using nested EPT in the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine). An unprivileged guest user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) on the guest. (CVE-2014-3645)

Lars Bull reported a race condition in the PIT (programmable interrupt timer) emulation in the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local guest user with access to PIT i/o ports could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (crash) on the host.
(CVE-2014-3611)

Lars Bull and Nadav Amit reported a flaw in how KVM (the Kernel Virtual Machine) handles noncanonical writes to certain MSR registers.
A privileged guest user can exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) on the host. (CVE-2014-3610)

A flaw in the handling of malformed ASCONF chunks by SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) implementation in the Linux kernel was discovered. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2014-3673)

A flaw in the handling of duplicate ASCONF chunks by SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) implementation in the Linux kernel was discovered. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (panic). (CVE-2014-3687)

It was discovered that excessive queuing by SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) implementation in the Linux kernel can cause memory pressure. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2014-3688)

A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service (kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption) by leveraging /dev/kvm access. (CVE-2014-3690)

Don Bailey discovered a flaw in the LZO decompress algorithm used by the Linux kernel. An attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or OOPS). (CVE-2014-4608)

It was discovered the Linux kernel's implementation of IPv6 did not properly validate arguments in the ipv6_select_ident function. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging tun or macvtap device access. (CVE-2014-7207)

Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel was not checking the CAP_SYS_ADMIN when remounting filesystems to read-only. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (loss of writability). (CVE-2014-7975).

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.

The 3.14.23 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. Various security fixes for KVM and SCTP

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:1843 advisory.

    The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux     operating system.

    * A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM     subsystem handled PIT (Programmable Interval Timer) emulation. A guest user     who has access to the PIT I/O ports could use this flaw to crash the host.
    (CVE-2014-3611, Important)

    * A memory corruption flaw was found in the way the USB ConnectTech     WhiteHEAT serial driver processed completion commands sent via USB Request     Blocks buffers. An attacker with physical access to the system could use     this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on     the system. (CVE-2014-3185, Moderate)

    * It was found that the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem did not handle the VM     exits gracefully for the invept (Invalidate Translations Derived from EPT)     and invvpid (Invalidate Translations Based on VPID) instructions. On hosts     with an Intel processor and invept/invppid VM exit support, an unprivileged     guest user could use these instructions to crash the guest. (CVE-2014-3645,     CVE-2014-3646, Moderate)

    Red Hat would like to thank Lars Bull of Google for reporting     CVE-2014-3611, and the Advanced Threat Research team at Intel Security for     reporting CVE-2014-3645 and CVE-2014-3646.

    This update also fixes the following bugs:

    * This update fixes several race conditions between PCI error recovery     callbacks and potential calls of the ifup and ifdown commands in the tg3     driver. When triggered, these race conditions could cause a kernel crash.
    (BZ#1142570)

    * Previously, GFS2 failed to unmount a sub-mounted GFS2 file system if its     parent was also a GFS2 file system. This problem has been fixed by adding     the appropriate d_op->d_hash() routine call for the last component of the     mount point path in the path name lookup mechanism code (namei).
    (BZ#1145193)

    * Due to previous changes in the virtio-net driver, a Red Hat Enterprise     Linux 6.6 guest was unable to boot with the mgr_rxbuf=off option     specified. This was caused by providing the page_to_skb() function with an     incorrect packet length in the driver's Rx path. This problem has been     fixed and the guest in the described scenario can now boot successfully.
    (BZ#1148693)

    * When using one of the newer IPSec Authentication Header (AH) algorithms     with Openswan, a kernel panic could occur. This happened because the     maximum truncated ICV length was too small. To fix this problem, the     MAX_AH_AUTH_LEN parameter has been set to 64. (BZ#1149083)

    * A bug in the IPMI driver caused the kernel to panic when an IPMI     interface was removed using the hotmod script. The IPMI driver has been     fixed to properly clean the relevant data when removing an IPMI interface.
    (BZ#1149578)

    * Due to a bug in the IPMI driver, the kernel could panic when adding an     IPMI interface that was previously removed using the hotmod script.
    This update fixes this bug by ensuring that the relevant shadow structure     is initialized at the right time. (BZ#1149580)

    All kernel users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which     contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be     rebooted for this update to take effect.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-1843 advisory.

    - [x86] kvm: fix PIT timer race condition (mguzik) [1149592 1149593] {CVE-2014-3611}
    - [x86] kvm: vmx: handle invept and invvpid vm exits gracefull (mguzik) [1144826 1144837 1144827 1144838]     {CVE-2014-3646 CVE-2014-3645}
    - [usb] serial: memory corruption flaw (Jacob Tanenbaum) [1141401 1141402] {CVE-2014-3185}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

* A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem handled PIT (Programmable Interval Timer) emulation. A guest user who has access to the PIT I/O ports could use this flaw to crash the host. (CVE-2014-3611, Important)

* A memory corruption flaw was found in the way the USB ConnectTech WhiteHEAT serial driver processed completion commands sent via USB Request Blocks buffers. An attacker with physical access to the system could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2014-3185, Moderate)

* It was found that the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem did not handle the VM exits gracefully for the invept (Invalidate Translations Derived from EPT) and invvpid (Invalidate Translations Based on VPID) instructions. On hosts with an Intel processor and invept/invppid VM exit support, an unprivileged guest user could use these instructions to crash the guest. (CVE-2014-3645, CVE-2014-3646, Moderate)

Red Hat would like to thank Lars Bull of Google for reporting CVE-2014-3611, and the Advanced Threat Research team at Intel Security for reporting CVE-2014-3645 and CVE-2014-3646.

This update also fixes the following bugs :

* This update fixes several race conditions between PCI error recovery callbacks and potential calls of the ifup and ifdown commands in the tg3 driver. When triggered, these race conditions could cause a kernel crash. (BZ#1142570)

* Previously, GFS2 failed to unmount a sub-mounted GFS2 file system if its parent was also a GFS2 file system. This problem has been fixed by adding the appropriate d_op->d_hash() routine call for the last component of the mount point path in the path name lookup mechanism code (namei). (BZ#1145193)

* Due to previous changes in the virtio-net driver, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 guest was unable to boot with the 'mgr_rxbuf=off' option specified. This was caused by providing the page_to_skb() function with an incorrect packet length in the driver's Rx path. This problem has been fixed and the guest in the described scenario can now boot successfully. (BZ#1148693)

* When using one of the newer IPSec Authentication Header (AH) algorithms with Openswan, a kernel panic could occur. This happened because the maximum truncated ICV length was too small. To fix this problem, the MAX_AH_AUTH_LEN parameter has been set to 64.
(BZ#1149083)

* A bug in the IPMI driver caused the kernel to panic when an IPMI interface was removed using the hotmod script. The IPMI driver has been fixed to properly clean the relevant data when removing an IPMI interface. (BZ#1149578)

* Due to a bug in the IPMI driver, the kernel could panic when adding an IPMI interface that was previously removed using the hotmod script.
This update fixes this bug by ensuring that the relevant shadow structure is initialized at the right time. (BZ#1149580)

All kernel users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Security fixes :

  - A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux     kernel's KVM subsystem handled PIT (Programmable     Interval Timer) emulation. A guest user who has access     to the PIT I/O ports could use this flaw to crash the     host. (CVE-2014-3611, Important)

  - A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the     Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol     (SCTP) implementation handled simultaneous connections     between the same hosts. A remote attacker could use this     flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2014-5077, Important)

  - It was found that the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem did     not handle the VM exits gracefully for the invept     (Invalidate Translations Derived from EPT) and invvpid     (Invalidate Translations Based on VPID) instructions. On     hosts with an Intel processor and invept/invppid VM exit     support, an unprivileged guest user could use these     instructions to crash the guest. (CVE-2014-3645,     CVE-2014-3646, Moderate)

  - A use-after-free flaw was found in the way the Linux     kernel's Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA)     implementation handled user controls. A local,     privileged user could use this flaw to crash the system.
    (CVE-2014-4653, Moderate)

Bug fixes :

  - A known issue that could prevent Chelsio adapters using     the cxgb4 driver from being initialized on IBM POWER8     systems has been fixed. These adapters can now be used     on IBM POWER8 systems as expected.

  - When bringing a hot-added CPU online, the kernel did not     initialize a CPU mask properly, which could result in a     kernel panic. This update corrects the bug by ensuring     that the CPU mask is properly initialized and the     correct NUMA node selected.

  - The kernel could fail to bring a CPU online if the     hardware supported both, the acpi-cpufreq and     intel_pstate modules. This update ensures that the     acpi-cpufreq module is not loaded in the intel_pstate     module is loaded.

  - Due to a bug in the time accounting of the kernel     scheduler, a divide error could occur when hot adding a     CPU. To fix this problem, the kernel scheduler time     accounting has been reworked.

  - The kernel did not handle exceptions caused by an     invalid floating point control (FPC) register, resulting     in a kernel oops. This problem has been fixed by placing     the label to handle these exceptions to the correct     place in the code.

  - A previous change to the kernel for the PowerPC     architecture changed implementation of the     compat_sys_sendfile() function. Consequently, the 64-bit     sendfile() system call stopped working for files larger     than 2 GB on PowerPC. This update restores previous     behavior of sendfile() on PowerPC, and it again process     files bigger than 2 GB as expected.

  - Previously, the kernel scheduler could schedule a CPU     topology update even though the topology did not change.
    This could negatively affect the CPU load balancing,     cause degradation of the system performance, and     eventually result in a kernel oops. This problem has     been fixed by skipping the CPU topology update if the     topology has not actually changed.

  - Previously, recovery of a double-degraded RAID6 array     could, under certain circumstances, result in data     corruption. This could happen because the md driver was     using an optimization that is safe to use only for     single-degraded arrays. This update ensures that this     optimization is skipped during the recovery of     double-degraded RAID6 arrays.

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Nadav Amit reported that the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) mishandles noncanonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the rip (Instruction Pointer). A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can use this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) of the guest. (CVE-2014-3647)

A flaw was discovered with the handling of the invept instruction in the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) subsystem of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged guest user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) on the guest. (CVE-2014-3646)

Lars Bull reported a race condition in the PIT (programmable interrupt timer) emulation in the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local guest user with access to PIT i/o ports could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (crash) on the host.
(CVE-2014-3611)

Lars Bull and Nadav Amit reported a flaw in how KVM (the Kernel Virtual Machine) handles noncanonical writes to certain MSR registers.
A privileged guest user can exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) on the host. (CVE-2014-3610).

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.

Linux v3.17.2. A wide variety of fixes across the tree. Even more KVM CVE fixes CVE fixes for KVM and SCTP.

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

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service :

  - CVE-2014-3610     Lars Bull of Google and Nadav Amit reported a flaw in     how KVM handles noncanonical writes to certain MSR     registers. A privileged guest user can exploit this flaw     to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) on the host.

  - CVE-2014-3611     Lars Bull of Google reported a race condition in the PIT     emulation code in KVM. A local guest user with access to     PIT i/o ports could exploit this flaw to cause a denial     of service (crash) on the host.

  - CVE-2014-3645/ CVE-2014-3646     The Advanced Threat Research team at Intel Security     discovered that the KVM subsystem did not handle the VM     exits gracefully for the invept (Invalidate Translations     Derived from EPT) and invvpid (Invalidate Translations     Based on VPID) instructions. On hosts with an Intel     processor and invept/invppid VM exit support, an     unprivileged guest user could use these instructions to     crash the guest.

  - CVE-2014-3647     Nadav Amit reported that KVM mishandles noncanonical     addresses when emulating instructions that change rip,     potentially causing a failed VM-entry. A guest user with     access to I/O or the MMIO can use this flaw to cause a     denial of service (system crash) of the guest.

  - CVE-2014-3673     Liu Wei of Red Hat discovered a flaw in     net/core/skbuff.c leading to a kernel panic when     receiving malformed ASCONF chunks. A remote attacker     could use this flaw to crash the system.

  - CVE-2014-3687     A flaw in the sctp stack was discovered leading to a     kernel panic when receiving duplicate ASCONF chunks. A     remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system.

  - CVE-2014-3688     It was found that the sctp stack is prone to a remotely     triggerable memory pressure issue caused by excessive     queueing. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause     denial-of-service conditions on the system.

  - CVE-2014-3690     Andy Lutomirski discovered that incorrect register     handling in KVM may lead to denial of service.

  - CVE-2014-7207     Several Debian developers reported an issue in the IPv6     networking subsystem. A local user with access to tun or     macvtap devices, or a virtual machine connected to such     a device, can cause a denial of service (system crash).

This update includes a bug fix related to CVE-2014-7207 that disables UFO (UDP Fragmentation Offload) in the macvtap, tun, and virtio_net drivers. This will cause migration of a running VM from a host running an earlier kernel version to a host running this kernel version to fail, if the VM has been assigned a virtio network device. In order to migrate such a VM, it must be shut down first.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2395-1 advisory.

    Nadav Amit reported that the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) mishandles noncanonical addresses when emulating     instructions that change the rip (Instruction Pointer). A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can     use this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) of the guest. (CVE-2014-3647)

    A flaw was discovered with the handling of the invept instruction in the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine)     subsystem of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged guest user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of     service (system crash) on the guest. (CVE-2014-3646)

    Lars Bull reported a race condition in the PIT (programmable interrupt timer) emulation in the KVM (Kernel     Virtual Machine) subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local guest user with access to PIT i/o ports could     exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (crash) on the host. (CVE-2014-3611)

    Lars Bull and Nadav Amit reported a flaw in how KVM (the Kernel Virtual Machine) handles noncanonical     writes to certain MSR registers. A privileged guest user can exploit this flaw to cause a denial of     service (kernel panic) on the host. (CVE-2014-3610)

    A bounds check error was discovered in the driver for the Logitech Unifying receivers and devices. A     physically proximate attacker could exploit this flaw to to cause a denial of service (invalid kfree) or     to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-3182)

    Raphael Geissert reported a NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's CIFS client. A remote CIFS     server could cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have other unspecified impact by     deleting IPC$ share during resolution of DFS referrals. (CVE-2014-7145)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Nadav Amit reported that the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) mishandles noncanonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the rip (Instruction Pointer). A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can use this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) of the guest. (CVE-2014-3647)

A flaw was discovered with the handling of the invept instruction in the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) subsystem of the Linux kernel. An unprivileged guest user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) on the guest. (CVE-2014-3646)

Lars Bull reported a race condition in the PIT (programmable interrupt timer) emulation in the KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local guest user with access to PIT i/o ports could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (crash) on the host.
(CVE-2014-3611)

Lars Bull and Nadav Amit reported a flaw in how KVM (the Kernel Virtual Machine) handles noncanonical writes to certain MSR registers.
A privileged guest user can exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) on the host. (CVE-2014-3610)

Raphael Geissert reported a NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's CIFS client. A remote CIFS server could cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have other unspecified impact by deleting IPC$ share during resolution of DFS referrals.
(CVE-2014-7145).

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.

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-3084 advisory.

  - Race condition in the __kvm_migrate_pit_timer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c in the KVM subsystem in the     Linux kernel through 3.17.2 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by     leveraging incorrect PIT emulation. (CVE-2014-3611)

  - arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.12 does not have an exit handler for     the INVEPT instruction, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via a     crafted application. (CVE-2014-3645)

  - arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not have an exit handler     for the INVVPID instruction, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via     a crafted application. (CVE-2014-3646)

  - Multiple buffer overflows in the command_port_read_callback function in drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c in     the Whiteheat USB Serial Driver in the Linux kernel before 3.16.2 allow physically proximate attackers to     execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) via a crafted     device that provides a large amount of (1) EHCI or (2) XHCI data associated with a bulk response.
    (CVE-2014-3185)

  - Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the magicmouse_raw_event function in drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c     in the Magic Mouse HID driver in the Linux kernel through 3.16.3 allow physically proximate attackers to     cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted device that     provides a large amount of (1) EHCI or (2) XHCI data associated with an event. (CVE-2014-3181)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:1724 advisory.

    The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux     operating system.

    Security fixes:

    * A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM     subsystem handled PIT (Programmable Interval Timer) emulation. A guest user     who has access to the PIT I/O ports could use this flaw to crash the host.
    (CVE-2014-3611, Important)

    * A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's     Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation handled     simultaneous connections between the same hosts. A remote attacker could     use this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2014-5077, Important)

    * It was found that the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem did not handle the VM     exits gracefully for the invept (Invalidate Translations Derived from EPT)     and invvpid (Invalidate Translations Based on VPID) instructions. On hosts     with an Intel processor and invept/invppid VM exit support, an unprivileged     guest user could use these instructions to crash the guest. (CVE-2014-3645,     CVE-2014-3646, Moderate)

    * A use-after-free flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Advanced     Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) implementation handled user controls. A     local, privileged user could use this flaw to crash the system.
    (CVE-2014-4653, Moderate)

    Red Hat would like to thank Lars Bull of Google for reporting     CVE-2014-3611, and the Advanced Threat Research team at Intel Security for     reporting CVE-2014-3645 and CVE-2014-3646.

    Bug fixes:

    * A known issue that could prevent Chelsio adapters using the cxgb4 driver     from being initialized on IBM POWER8 systems has been fixed. These     adapters can now be used on IBM POWER8 systems as expected. (BZ#1130548)

    * When bringing a hot-added CPU online, the kernel did not initialize a     CPU mask properly, which could result in a kernel panic. This update     corrects the bug by ensuring that the CPU mask is properly initialized and     the correct NUMA node selected. (BZ#1134715)

    * The kernel could fail to bring a CPU online if the hardware supported     both, the acpi-cpufreq and intel_pstate modules. This update ensures that     the acpi-cpufreq module is not loaded in the intel_pstate module is     loaded. (BZ#1134716)

    * Due to a bug in the time accounting of the kernel scheduler, a divide     error could occur when hot adding a CPU. To fix this problem, the kernel     scheduler time accounting has been reworked. (BZ#1134717)

    * The kernel did not handle exceptions caused by an invalid floating point     control (FPC) register, resulting in a kernel oops. This problem has been     fixed by placing the label to handle these exceptions to the correct place     in the code. (BZ#1138733)

    * A previous change to the kernel for the PowerPC architecture changed     implementation of the compat_sys_sendfile() function. Consequently, the     64-bit sendfile() system call stopped working for files larger than 2 GB     on PowerPC. This update restores previous behavior of sendfile() on     PowerPC, and it again process files bigger than 2 GB as expected.
    (BZ#1139126)

    * Previously, the kernel scheduler could schedule a CPU topology update     even though the topology did not change. This could negatively affect the     CPU load balancing, cause degradation of the system performance, and     eventually result in a kernel oops. This problem has been fixed by     skipping the CPU topology update if the topology has not actually changed.
    (BZ#1140300)

    * Previously, recovery of a double-degraded RAID6 array could, under     certain circumstances, result in data corruption. This could happen     because the md driver was using an optimization that is safe to use only     for single-degraded arrays. This update ensures that this optimization is     skipped during the recovery of double-degraded RAID6 arrays. (BZ#1143850)

    All kernel users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which     contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be     rebooted for this update to take effect.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-1724 advisory.

    - [virt] kvm: fix PIT timer race condition (Petr  Matousek) [1144879 1144880] {CVE-2014-3611}
    - [virt] kvm/vmx: handle invept and invvpid vm exits gracefully (Petr  Matousek) [1145449 1116936]     [1144828 1144829] {CVE-2014-3645 CVE-2014-3646}
    - [net] sctp: inherit auth_capable on INIT collisions (Daniel Borkmann) [1124337 1123763] {CVE-2014-5077}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

More KVM CVE fixes.

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

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security fixes :

* A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem handled PIT (Programmable Interval Timer) emulation. A guest user who has access to the PIT I/O ports could use this flaw to crash the host. (CVE-2014-3611, Important)

* A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation handled simultaneous connections between the same hosts. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2014-5077, Important)

* It was found that the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem did not handle the VM exits gracefully for the invept (Invalidate Translations Derived from EPT) and invvpid (Invalidate Translations Based on VPID) instructions. On hosts with an Intel processor and invept/invppid VM exit support, an unprivileged guest user could use these instructions to crash the guest. (CVE-2014-3645, CVE-2014-3646, Moderate)

* A use-after-free flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) implementation handled user controls. A local, privileged user could use this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2014-4653, Moderate)

Red Hat would like to thank Lars Bull of Google for reporting CVE-2014-3611, and the Advanced Threat Research team at Intel Security for reporting CVE-2014-3645 and CVE-2014-3646.

Bug fixes :

* A known issue that could prevent Chelsio adapters using the cxgb4 driver from being initialized on IBM POWER8 systems has been fixed.
These adapters can now be used on IBM POWER8 systems as expected.
(BZ#1130548)

* When bringing a hot-added CPU online, the kernel did not initialize a CPU mask properly, which could result in a kernel panic. This update corrects the bug by ensuring that the CPU mask is properly initialized and the correct NUMA node selected. (BZ#1134715)

* The kernel could fail to bring a CPU online if the hardware supported both, the acpi-cpufreq and intel_pstate modules. This update ensures that the acpi-cpufreq module is not loaded in the intel_pstate module is loaded. (BZ#1134716)

* Due to a bug in the time accounting of the kernel scheduler, a divide error could occur when hot adding a CPU. To fix this problem, the kernel scheduler time accounting has been reworked. (BZ#1134717)

* The kernel did not handle exceptions caused by an invalid floating point control (FPC) register, resulting in a kernel oops. This problem has been fixed by placing the label to handle these exceptions to the correct place in the code. (BZ#1138733)

* A previous change to the kernel for the PowerPC architecture changed implementation of the compat_sys_sendfile() function. Consequently, the 64-bit sendfile() system call stopped working for files larger than 2 GB on PowerPC. This update restores previous behavior of sendfile() on PowerPC, and it again process files bigger than 2 GB as expected. (BZ#1139126)

* Previously, the kernel scheduler could schedule a CPU topology update even though the topology did not change. This could negatively affect the CPU load balancing, cause degradation of the system performance, and eventually result in a kernel oops. This problem has been fixed by skipping the CPU topology update if the topology has not actually changed. (BZ#1140300)

* Previously, recovery of a double-degraded RAID6 array could, under certain circumstances, result in data corruption. This could happen because the md driver was using an optimization that is safe to use only for single-degraded arrays. This update ensures that this optimization is skipped during the recovery of double-degraded RAID6 arrays. (BZ#1143850)

All kernel users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
124971	EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1518)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
124804	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1480)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
99163	OracleVM 3.3 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0057) (Dirty COW)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	critical
83696	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2015:0481-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
81800	Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2015-0290)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
81624	RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2015:0284)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
81200	RHEL 6 : rhev-hypervisor6 (RHSA-2015:0126)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
80250	SuSE 11.3 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Number 10103)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
80249	SuSE 11.3 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 10037 / 10040)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
80059	F5 Networks BIG-IP : Linux kernel driver vulnerabilities (K15912)	Nessus	F5 Networks Local Security Checks	medium
79610	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDVSA-2014:230)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	high
79433	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2417-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
79258	Fedora 19 : kernel-3.14.23-100.fc19 (2014-14068)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
79206	RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2014:1843)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
79201	Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2014-1843)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
79189	CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2014:1843)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
78851	Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20141028)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	medium
78821	Ubuntu 14.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2396-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
78814	Fedora 21 : kernel-3.17.2-300.fc21 (2014-14126)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
78784	Debian DSA-3060-1 : linux - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
78765	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2395-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
78764	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2394-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
78756	Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel Security (ELSA-2014-3084)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
78722	RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2014:1724)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
78721	Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2014-1724)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
78716	Fedora 20 : kernel-3.16.6-203.fc20 (2014-13773)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
78702	CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2014:1724)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium

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