The sctp_init function in net/sctp/protocol.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2.3 has an incorrect sequence of protocol-initialization steps, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic or memory corruption) by creating SCTP sockets before all of the steps have finished.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - kernel: Buffer overflow due to unbounded strcpy in ISDN I4L driver (CVE-2017-12762)

  - kernel: buffer-overflow hardening in WiFi beacon validation code. (CVE-2019-16746)

  - include/linux/init_task.h in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35 does not prevent signals with a process group     ID of zero from reaching the swapper process, which allows local users to cause a denial of service     (system crash) by leveraging access to this process group. (CVE-2010-5328)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - kernel: netfilter: use-after-free in tcpmss_mangle_packet function in net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c     (CVE-2017-18017)

  - The ia64 subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26 allows local users to cause a denial of service     (stack consumption and system crash) via a crafted application that leverages the mishandling of invalid     Register Stack Engine (RSE) state. (CVE-2006-3635)

  - drivers/media/video/videobuf-vmalloc.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.24 does not initialize     videobuf_mapping data structures, which allows local users to trigger an incorrect count value and     videobuf leak via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-5321. (CVE-2007-6761)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

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 :

  - The hi3660_stub_clk_probe function in     drivers/clk/hisilicon/clk-hi3660-stub.c in the Linux     kernel before 4.16 allows local users to cause a denial     of service (NULL pointer dereference) by triggering a     failure of resource retrieval.(CVE-2018-10074i1/4%0

  - 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-2014-4027i1/4%0

  - It was found that in the Linux kernel version 4.2-rc1     to 4.3-rc1, a use of uninitialized 'n_proto',     'ip_proto', and 'thoff' variables in
    __skb_flow_dissect() function can lead to a remote     denial-of-service via malformed MPLS     packet.(CVE-2017-13715i1/4%0

  - It was found that the packet_set_ring() function of the     Linux kernel's networking implementation did not     properly validate certain block-size data. A local     attacker with CAP_NET_RAW capability could use this     flaw to trigger a buffer overflow, resulting in the     crash of the system. Due to the nature of the flaw,     privilege escalation cannot be fully ruled     out.(CVE-2017-7308i1/4%0

  - A weakness was found in the Linux ASLR implementation.
    Any user able to running 32-bit applications in a x86     machine can disable ASLR by setting the RLIMIT_STACK     resource to unlimited.(CVE-2016-3672i1/4%0

  - sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/msm-audio-effects-q6-v2.c in the     MSM QDSP6 audio driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as     used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android     contributions for MSM devices and other products,     allows attackers to cause a denial of service     (out-of-bounds write and memory corruption) or possibly     have unspecified other impact via a crafted application     that makes an ioctl call triggering incorrect use of a     parameters pointer.(CVE-2016-2065i1/4%0

  - A race condition flaw was found in the ioctl_send_fib()     function in the Linux kernel's aacraid implementation.
    A local attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial     of service (out-of-bounds access or system crash) by     changing a certain size value.(CVE-2016-6480i1/4%0

  - The omninet_open function in     drivers/usb/serial/omninet.c in the Linux kernel before     4.10.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service     (tty exhaustion) by leveraging reference count     mishandling.(CVE-2017-8925i1/4%0

  - The tower_probe function in     drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c in the Linux kernel     before 4.8.1 allows local users (who are physically     proximate for inserting a crafted USB device) to gain     privileges by leveraging a write-what-where condition     that occurs after a race condition and a NULL pointer     dereference.(CVE-2017-15102i1/4%0

  - The rtnl_fill_link_ifmap function in     net/core/rtnetlink.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.5     does not initialize a certain data structure, which     allows local users to obtain sensitive information from     kernel stack memory by reading a Netlink     message.(CVE-2016-4486i1/4%0

  - A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's     lp_setup() function where it doesn't apply any bounds     checking when passing 'lp=none'. This can result into     overflow of the parport_nr array. An attacker with     control over kernel command line can overwrite kernel     code and data with fixed (0xff)     values.(CVE-2017-1000363i1/4%0

  - sound/core/hrtimer.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1     does not prevent recursive callback access, which     allows local users to cause a denial of service     (deadlock) via a crafted ioctl call.(CVE-2016-2549i1/4%0

  - The pn_recvmsg function in net/phonet/datagram.c in the     Linux kernel before 3.12.4 updates a certain length     value before ensuring that an associated data structure     has been initialized, which allows local users to     obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory     via a (1) recvfrom, (2) recvmmsg, or (3) recvmsg system     call.(CVE-2013-7265i1/4%0

  - A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the SCTP     implementation. A local user could use this flaw to     cause a denial of service on the system by triggering a     kernel panic when creating multiple sockets in parallel     while the system did not have the SCTP module     loaded.(CVE-2015-5283i1/4%0

  - It was found that in Linux kernel the mount table     expands by a power-of-two with each bind mount command.
    If a system is configured to allow non-privileged user     to do bind mounts, or allows to do so in a container or     unprivileged mount namespace, then non-privileged user     is able to cause a local DoS by overflowing the mount     table, which causes a deadlock for the whole     system.(CVE-2016-6213i1/4%0

  - The cifs_iovec_write function in fs/cifs/file.c in the     Linux kernel through 3.13.5 does not properly handle     uncached write operations that copy fewer than the     requested number of bytes, which allows local users to     obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, cause     a denial of service (memory corruption and system     crash), or possibly gain privileges via a writev system     call with a crafted pointer.(CVE-2014-0069i1/4%0

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation     of XFS file attributes. Two memory leaks were detected     in xfs_attr_shortform_list and xfs_attr3_leaf_list_int     when running a docker container backed by xfs/overlay2.
    A dedicated attacker could possible exhaust all memory     and create a denial of service     situation.(CVE-2016-9685i1/4%0

  - Multiple integer overflows in the MDSS driver for the     Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center     (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other     products, allow attackers to cause a denial of service     or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large     size value, related to mdss_compat_utils.c, mdss_fb.c,     and mdss_rotator.c.(CVE-2016-5344i1/4%0

  - kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel through     4.14.8 ignores unreachable code, even though it would     still be processed by JIT compilers. This behavior,     also considered an improper branch-pruning logic issue,     could possibly be used by local users for denial of     service.(CVE-2017-17862i1/4%0

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation     of the SCTP protocol. A remote attacker could trigger     an out-of-bounds read with an offset of up to 64kB     potentially causing the system to     crash.(CVE-2016-9555i1/4%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 handled     IRET faults during the processing of NMIs. An     unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to crash     the system or, potentially (although highly unlikely),     escalate their privileges on the system.(CVE-2015-5157)

  - A denial of service vulnerability was found in the     WhiteHEAT USB Serial Driver (whiteheat_attach function     in drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c). In the driver, the     COMMAND_PORT variable was hard coded and set to 4 (5th     element). The driver assumed that the number of ports     would always be 5 and used port number 5 as the command     port. However, when using a USB device in which the     number of ports was set to a number less than 5 (for     example, 3), the driver triggered a kernel NULL-pointer     dereference. A non-privileged attacker could use this     flaw to panic the host.(CVE-2015-5257)

  - A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the SCTP     implementation. A local user could use this flaw to     cause a denial of service on the system by triggering a     kernel panic when creating multiple sockets in parallel     while the system did not have the SCTP module     loaded.(CVE-2015-5283)

  - It was found that the x86 ISA (Instruction Set     Architecture) is prone to a denial of service attack     inside a virtualized environment in the form of an     infinite loop in the microcode due to the way     (sequential) delivering of benign exceptions such as     #AC (alignment check exception) is handled. A     privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to     create denial of service conditions on the host     kernel.(CVE-2015-5307)

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's     networking implementation handled UDP packets with     incorrect checksum values. A remote attacker could     potentially use this flaw to trigger an infinite loop     in the kernel, resulting in a denial of service on the     system, or cause a denial of service in applications     using the edge triggered epoll     functionality.(CVE-2015-5364)

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's     networking implementation handled UDP packets with     incorrect checksum values. A remote attacker could     potentially use this flaw to trigger an infinite loop     in the kernel, resulting in a denial of service on the     system, or cause a denial of service in applications     using the edge triggered epoll     functionality.(CVE-2015-5366)

  - A cross-boundary flaw was discovered in the Linux     kernel software raid driver. The driver accessed a     disabled bitmap where only the first byte of the buffer     was initialized to zero. This meant that the rest of     the request (up to 4095 bytes) was left and copied into     user space. An attacker could use this flaw to read     private information from user space that would not     otherwise have been accessible.(CVE-2015-5697)

  - An integer-overflow vulnerability was found in the scsi     block-request handling code in function start_req(). A     local attacker could use specially crafted IOV requests     to overflow a counter used in bio_map_user_iov()'s page     calculation, and write past the end of the array that     contains kernel-page pointers.(CVE-2015-5707)

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's vhost     driver treated userspace provided log file descriptor     when processing the VHOST_SET_LOG_FD ioctl command. The     file descriptor was never released and continued to     consume kernel memory. A privileged local user with     access to the /dev/vhost-net files could use this flaw     to create a denial-of-service attack.(CVE-2015-6252)

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's perf     subsystem retrieved userlevel stack traces on PowerPC     systems. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw     to cause a denial of service on the system by creating     a special stack layout that would force the     perf_callchain_user_64() function into an infinite     loop.(CVE-2015-6526)

  - A NULL-pointer dereference vulnerability was discovered     in the Linux kernel. The kernel's Reliable Datagram     Sockets (RDS) protocol implementation did not verify     that an underlying transport existed before creating a     connection to a remote server. A local system user     could exploit this flaw to crash the system by creating     sockets at specific times to trigger a NULL pointer     dereference.(CVE-2015-6937)

  - Multiple race conditions in the Advanced Union     Filesystem (aufs) aufs3-mmap.patch and aufs4-mmap.patch     patches for the Linux kernel 3.x and 4.x allow local     users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and     BUG) or possibly gain privileges via a (1) madvise or     (2) msync system call, related to mm/madvise.c and     mm/msync.c.(CVE-2015-7312)

  - A divide-by-zero flaw was discovered in the Linux     kernel built with KVM virtualization     support(CONFIG_KVM). The flaw occurs in the KVM     module's Programmable Interval Timer(PIT) emulation,     when PIT counters for channel 1 or 2 are set to zero(0)     and a privileged user inside the guest attempts to read     these counters. A privileged guest user with access to     PIT I/O ports could exploit this issue to crash the     host kernel (denial of service).(CVE-2015-7513)

  - An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the     Linux kernel's aiptek USB tablet driver (aiptek_probe()     function in drivers/input/tablet/aiptek.c). The driver     assumed that the interface always had at least one     endpoint. By using a specially crafted USB device with     no endpoints on one of its interfaces, an unprivileged     user with physical access to the system could trigger a     kernel NULL pointer dereference, causing the system to     panic.(CVE-2015-7515)

  - A NULL-pointer dereference flaw was found in the     kernel, which is caused by a race between revoking a     user-type key and reading from it. The issue could be     triggered by an unprivileged user with a local account,     causing the kernel to crash (denial of     service).(CVE-2015-7550)

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel visor     driver handles certain invalid USB device descriptors.
    The driver assumes that the device always has at least     one bulk OUT endpoint. By using a specially crafted USB     device (without a bulk OUT endpoint), an unprivileged     user with physical access could trigger a kernel     NULL-pointer dereference and cause a system panic     (denial of service).(CVE-2015-7566)

  - A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux     kernel's IPC subsystem initialized certain fields in an     IPC object structure that were later used for     permission checking before inserting the object into a     globally visible list. A local, unprivileged user could     potentially use this flaw to elevate their privileges     on the system.(CVE-2015-7613)

  - A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel where issuing     certain ioctl() -s commands to the '/dev/ppp' device     file could lead to a NULL pointer dereference. A     privileged user could use this flaw to cause a kernel     crash and denial of service.(CVE-2015-7799)

  - It was found that the Linux kernel's keys subsystem did     not correctly garbage collect uninstantiated keyrings.
    A local attacker could use this flaw to crash the     system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on     the system.(CVE-2015-7872)

  - A denial of service flaw was discovered in the Linux     kernel, where a race condition caused a NULL pointer     dereference in the RDS socket-creation code. A local     attacker could use this flaw to create a situation in     which a NULL pointer crashed the kernel.(CVE-2015-7990)

  - It was found that the x86 ISA (Instruction Set     Architecture) is prone to a denial of service attack     inside a virtualized environment in the form of an     infinite loop in the microcode due to the way     (sequential) delivering of benign exceptions such as     #DB (debug exception) is handled. A privileged user     inside a guest could use this flaw to create denial of     service conditions on the host kernel.(CVE-2015-8104)

  - It was found that the Linux kernel's IPv6 network stack     did not properly validate the value of the MTU variable     when it was set. A remote attacker could potentially     use this flaw to disrupt a target system's networking     (packet loss) by setting an invalid MTU value, for     example, via a NetworkManager daemon that is processing     router advertisement packets running on the target     system.(CVE-2015-8215)

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 sctp_init function in net/sctp/protocol.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2.3 has an incorrect sequence of protocol-initialization steps, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic or memory corruption) by creating SCTP sockets before all of the steps have finished. (CVE-2015-5283)

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements 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-rt packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

* A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's file system implementation handled rename operations in which the source was inside and the destination was outside of a bind mount. A privileged user inside a container could use this flaw to escape the bind mount and, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system.
(CVE-2015-2925, Important)

* A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's IPC subsystem initialized certain fields in an IPC object structure that were later used for permission checking before inserting the object into a globally visible list. A local, unprivileged user could potentially use this flaw to elevate their privileges on the system.
(CVE-2015-7613, Important)

* It was found that the Linux kernel memory resource controller's (memcg) handling of OOM (out of memory) conditions could lead to deadlocks. An attacker able to continuously spawn new processes within a single memory-constrained cgroup during an OOM event could use this flaw to lock up the system. (CVE-2014-8171, Moderate)

* A race condition flaw was found between the chown and execve system calls. When changing the owner of a setuid user binary to root, the race condition could momentarily make the binary setuid root. A local, unprivileged user could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2015-3339, Moderate)

* A flaw was discovered in the way the Linux kernel's TTY subsystem handled the tty shutdown phase. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service on the system by holding a reference to the ldisc lock during tty shutdown, causing a deadlock.
(CVE-2015-4170, Moderate)

* A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the SCTP implementation. A local user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service on the system by triggering a kernel panic when creating multiple sockets in parallel while the system did not have the SCTP module loaded. (CVE-2015-5283, Moderate)

* A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Crypto subsystem handled automatic loading of kernel modules. A local user could use this flaw to load any installed kernel module, and thus increase the attack surface of the running kernel. (CVE-2013-7421, CVE-2014-9644, Low)

* An information leak flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel changed certain segment registers and thread-local storage (TLS) during a context switch. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to leak the user space TLS base address of an arbitrary process.
(CVE-2014-9419, Low)

* A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled the securelevel functionality after performing a kexec operation. A local attacker could use this flaw to bypass the security mechanism of the securelevel/secureboot combination. (CVE-2015-7837, Low)

Red Hat would like to thank Linn Crosetto of HP for reporting the CVE-2015-7837 issue. The CVE-2015-5283 issue was discovered by Ji Jianwen from Red Hat engineering.

The kernel-rt packages have been upgraded to version 3.10.0-326.rt56.204, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements. (BZ#1201915, BZ#1211724)

This update also fixes several bugs and adds multiple enhancements.
Refer to the following Red Hat Knowledgebase article for information on the most significant of these changes :

https://access.redhat.com/articles/2055783

All kernel-rt users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues and add these enhancements. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

The openSUSE 13.1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

Following security bugs were fixed :

  - CVE-2016-0728: A reference leak in keyring handling with     join_session_keyring() could lead to local attackers     gain root privileges. (bsc#962075).

  - CVE-2015-7550: A local user could have triggered a race     between read and revoke in keyctl (bnc#958951).

  - CVE-2015-8569: The (1) pptp_bind and (2) pptp_connect     functions in drivers/net/ppp/pptp.c in the Linux kernel     did not verify an address length, which allowed local     users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory     and bypass the KASLR protection mechanism via a crafted     application (bnc#959190).

  - CVE-2015-8543: The networking implementation in the     Linux kernel did not validate protocol identifiers for     certain protocol families, which allowed local users to     cause a denial of service (NULL function pointer     dereference and system crash) or possibly gain     privileges by leveraging CLONE_NEWUSER support to     execute a crafted SOCK_RAW application (bnc#958886).

  - CVE-2014-8989: The Linux kernel did not properly     restrict dropping of supplemental group memberships in     certain namespace scenarios, which allowed local users     to bypass intended file permissions by leveraging a     POSIX ACL containing an entry for the group category     that is more restrictive than the entry for the other     category, aka a 'negative groups' issue, related to     kernel/groups.c, kernel/uid16.c, and     kernel/user_namespace.c (bnc#906545).

  - CVE-2015-5157: arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S in the Linux     kernel on the x86_64 platform mishandles IRET faults in     processing NMIs that occurred during userspace     execution, which might allow local users to gain     privileges by triggering an NMI (bnc#937969).

  - CVE-2015-7799: The slhc_init function in     drivers/net/slip/slhc.c in the Linux kernel through     4.2.3 did not ensure that certain slot numbers are     valid, which allowed local users to cause a denial of     service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via     a crafted PPPIOCSMAXCID ioctl call (bnc#949936).

  - CVE-2015-8104: The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel     through 4.2.6, and Xen 4.3.x through 4.6.x, allowed     guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS     panic or hang) by triggering many #DB (aka Debug)     exceptions, related to svm.c (bnc#954404).

  - CVE-2015-5307: The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel     through 4.2.6, and Xen 4.3.x through 4.6.x, allowed     guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS     panic or hang) by triggering many #AC (aka Alignment     Check) exceptions, related to svm.c and vmx.c     (bnc#953527).

  - CVE-2014-9529: Race condition in the key_gc_unused_keys     function in security/keys/gc.c in the Linux kernel     allowed local users to cause a denial of service (memory     corruption or panic) or possibly have unspecified other     impact via keyctl commands that trigger access to a key     structure member during garbage collection of a key     (bnc#912202).

  - CVE-2015-7990: Race condition in the rds_sendmsg     function in net/rds/sendmsg.c in the Linux kernel     allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL     pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have     unspecified other impact by using a socket that was not     properly bound. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because     of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-6937 (bnc#952384     953052).

  - CVE-2015-6937: The __rds_conn_create function in     net/rds/connection.c in the Linux kernel allowed local     users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer     dereference and system crash) or possibly have     unspecified other impact by using a socket that was not     properly bound (bnc#945825).

  - CVE-2015-7885: The dgnc_mgmt_ioctl function in     drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_mgmt.c in the Linux kernel     through 4.3.3 did not initialize a certain structure     member, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive     information from kernel memory via a crafted application     (bnc#951627).

  - CVE-2015-8215: net/ipv6/addrconf.c in the IPv6 stack in     the Linux kernel did not validate attempted changes to     the MTU value, which allowed context-dependent attackers     to cause a denial of service (packet loss) via a value     that is (1) smaller than the minimum compliant value or     (2) larger than the MTU of an interface, as demonstrated     by a Router Advertisement (RA) message that is not     validated by a daemon, a different vulnerability than     CVE-2015-0272. NOTE: the scope of CVE-2015-0272 is     limited to the NetworkManager product (bnc#955354).

  - CVE-2015-8767: A case can occur when sctp_accept() is     called by the user during a heartbeat timeout event     after the 4-way handshake. Since sctp_assoc_migrate()     changes both assoc->base.sk and assoc->ep, the     bh_sock_lock in sctp_generate_heartbeat_event() will be     taken with the listening socket but released with the     new association socket. The result is a deadlock on any     future attempts to take the listening socket lock.
    (bsc#961509)

  - CVE-2015-8575: Validate socket address length in     sco_sock_bind() to prevent information leak     (bsc#959399).

  - CVE-2015-8551, CVE-2015-8552: xen/pciback: For     XEN_PCI_OP_disable_msi[|x] only disable if device has     MSI(X) enabled (bsc#957990).

  - CVE-2015-8550: Compiler optimizations in the XEN PV     backend drivers could have lead to double fetch     vulnerabilities, causing denial of service or arbitrary     code execution (depending on the configuration)     (bsc#957988).

The following non-security bugs were fixed :

  - ALSA: hda - Disable 64bit address for Creative HDA     controllers (bnc#814440).

  - ALSA: hda - Fix noise problems on Thinkpad T440s     (boo#958504).

  - Input: aiptek - fix crash on detecting device without     endpoints (bnc#956708).

  - KEYS: Make /proc/keys unconditional if CONFIG_KEYS=y     (boo#956934).

  - KVM: x86: update masterclock values on TSC writes     (bsc#961739).

  - NFS: Fix a NULL pointer dereference of migration     recovery ops for v4.2 client (bsc#960839).

  - apparmor: allow SYS_CAP_RESOURCE to be sufficient to     prlimit another task (bsc#921949).

  - blktap: also call blkif_disconnect() when frontend     switched to closed (bsc#952976).

  - blktap: refine mm tracking (bsc#952976).

  - cdrom: Random writing support for BD-RE media     (bnc#959568).

  - genksyms: Handle string literals with spaces in     reference files (bsc#958510).

  - ipv4: Do not increase PMTU with Datagram Too Big message     (bsc#955224).

  - ipv6: distinguish frag queues by device for multicast     and link-local packets (bsc#955422).

  - ipv6: fix tunnel error handling (bsc#952579).

  - route: Use ipv4_mtu instead of raw rt_pmtu (bsc#955224).

  - uas: Add response iu handling (bnc#954138).

  - usbvision fix overflow of interfaces array (bnc#950998).

  - x86/evtchn: make use of PHYSDEVOP_map_pirq.

  - xen/pciback: Do not allow MSI-X ops if     PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY is not set (bsc#957990 XSA-157).

* A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's file system implementation handled rename operations in which the source was inside and the destination was outside of a bind mount. A privileged user inside a container could use this flaw to escape the bind mount and, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system.
(CVE-2015-2925, Important)

* A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's IPC subsystem initialized certain fields in an IPC object structure that were later used for permission checking before inserting the object into a globally visible list. A local, unprivileged user could potentially use this flaw to elevate their privileges on the system.
(CVE-2015-7613, Important)

* It was found that reporting emulation failures to user space could lead to either a local (CVE-2014-7842) or a L2->L1 (CVE-2010-5313) denial of service. In the case of a local denial of service, an attacker must have access to the MMIO area or be able to access an I/O port. (CVE-2010-5313, CVE-2014-7842, Moderate)

* 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, Moderate)

* It was found that the Linux kernel memory resource controller's (memcg) handling of OOM (out of memory) conditions could lead to deadlocks. An attacker could use this flaw to lock up the system.
(CVE-2014-8171, Moderate)

* A race condition flaw was found between the chown and execve system calls. A local, unprivileged user could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2015-3339, Moderate)

* A flaw was discovered in the way the Linux kernel's TTY subsystem handled the tty shutdown phase. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service on the system. (CVE-2015-4170, Moderate)

* A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the SCTP implementation. A local user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service on the system by triggering a kernel panic when creating multiple sockets in parallel while the system did not have the SCTP module loaded. (CVE-2015-5283, Moderate)

* A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's perf subsystem retrieved userlevel stack traces on PowerPC systems. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service on the system. (CVE-2015-6526, Moderate)

* A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Crypto subsystem handled automatic loading of kernel modules. A local user could use this flaw to load any installed kernel module, and thus increase the attack surface of the running kernel. (CVE-2013-7421, CVE-2014-9644, Low)

* An information leak flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel changed certain segment registers and thread-local storage (TLS) during a context switch. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to leak the user space TLS base address of an arbitrary process.
(CVE-2014-9419, Low)

* 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 Scientific Linux with KVM do initialize the SYSENTER MSRs and are thus not vulnerable to this issue when running on a KVM hypervisor. (CVE-2015-0239, Low)

* A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled the securelevel functionality after performing a kexec operation. A local attacker could use this flaw to bypass the security mechanism of the securelevel/secureboot combination. (CVE-2015-7837, Low)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2829-2 advisory.

    It was discovered that the SCTP protocol implementation in the Linux kernel performed an incorrect     sequence of protocol-initialization steps. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service     (system crash). (CVE-2015-5283)

    Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the Linux kernel's keyring handler attempted to garbage collect incompletely     instantiated keys. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash). (CVE-2015-7872)

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.

It was discovered that the SCTP protocol implementation in the Linux kernel performed an incorrect sequence of protocol-initialization steps. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2015-5283)

Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the Linux kernel's keyring handler attempted to garbage collect incompletely instantiated keys. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2015-7872).

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 SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.51 to receive various security and bugfixes.

Following security bugs were fixed :

  - CVE-2015-7799: The slhc_init function in     drivers/net/slip/slhc.c in the Linux kernel did not     ensure that certain slot numbers were valid, which     allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL     pointer dereference and system crash) via a crafted     PPPIOCSMAXCID ioctl call (bnc#949936).

  - CVE-2015-5283: The sctp_init function in     net/sctp/protocol.c in the Linux kernel had an incorrect     sequence of protocol-initialization steps, which allowed     local users to cause a denial of service (panic or     memory corruption) by creating SCTP sockets before all     of the steps have finished (bnc#947155).

  - CVE-2015-2925: The prepend_path function in fs/dcache.c     in the Linux kernel did not properly handle rename     actions inside a bind mount, which allowed local users     to bypass an intended container protection mechanism by     renaming a directory, related to a 'double-chroot attack     (bnc#926238).

  - CVE-2015-8104: The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel     allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service     (host OS panic or hang) by triggering many #DB (aka     Debug) exceptions, related to svm.c (bnc#954404).

  - CVE-2015-5307: The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel     allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service     (host OS panic or hang) by triggering many #AC (aka     Alignment Check) exceptions, related to svm.c and vmx.c     (bnc#953527).

  - CVE-2015-7990: RDS: There was no verification that an     underlying transport exists when creating a connection,     causing usage of a NULL pointer (bsc#952384).

  - CVE-2015-7872: The key_gc_unused_keys function in     security/keys/gc.c in the Linux kernel allowed local     users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via crafted     keyctl commands (bnc#951440).

  - CVE-2015-0272: Missing checks allowed remote attackers     to cause a denial of service (IPv6 traffic disruption)     via a crafted MTU value in an IPv6 Router Advertisement     (RA) message, a different vulnerability than     CVE-2015-8215 (bnc#944296).

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 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2823-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the SCTP protocol implementation in the Linux kernel performed an incorrect     sequence of protocol-initialization steps. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service     (system crash). (CVE-2015-5283)

    Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the Linux kernel's keyring handler attempted to garbage collect incompletely     instantiated keys. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash). (CVE-2015-7872)

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.

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates :

  - ipc/sem.c: fully initialize sem_array before making it     visible (Manfred Spraul) [Orabug: 22277382]     (CVE-2015-7613)

  - ipc: fix msg newqueue add (Guru Anbalagane) [Orabug:
    22277382] (CVE-2015-7613)

  - sctp: fix race on protocol/netns initialization (Marcelo     Ricardo Leitner) [Orabug: 22249981] (CVE-2015-5283)

  - Initialize msg/shm IPC objects before doing ipc_addid     (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 22250045] (CVE-2015-7613)

  - ixgbe: reset copper phy power mode (Ethan Zhao) [Orabug:
    22271769]

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, address several hundred bugs, and add numerous enhancements are now available as part of the ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7. This is the second regular update.

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 flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's file system implementation handled rename operations in which the source was inside and the destination was outside of a bind mount. A privileged user inside a container could use this flaw to escape the bind mount and, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system.
(CVE-2015-2925, Important)

* A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's IPC subsystem initialized certain fields in an IPC object structure that were later used for permission checking before inserting the object into a globally visible list. A local, unprivileged user could potentially use this flaw to elevate their privileges on the system.
(CVE-2015-7613, Important)

* It was found that reporting emulation failures to user space could lead to either a local (CVE-2014-7842) or a L2->L1 (CVE-2010-5313) denial of service. In the case of a local denial of service, an attacker must have access to the MMIO area or be able to access an I/O port. (CVE-2010-5313, CVE-2014-7842, Moderate)

* 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, Moderate)

* It was found that the Linux kernel memory resource controller's (memcg) handling of OOM (out of memory) conditions could lead to deadlocks. An attacker could use this flaw to lock up the system.
(CVE-2014-8171, Moderate)

* A race condition flaw was found between the chown and execve system calls. A local, unprivileged user could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2015-3339, Moderate)

* A flaw was discovered in the way the Linux kernel's TTY subsystem handled the tty shutdown phase. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service on the system. (CVE-2015-4170, Moderate)

* A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the SCTP implementation. A local user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service on the system by triggering a kernel panic when creating multiple sockets in parallel while the system did not have the SCTP module loaded. (CVE-2015-5283, Moderate)

* A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's perf subsystem retrieved userlevel stack traces on PowerPC systems. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service on the system. (CVE-2015-6526, Moderate)

* A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Crypto subsystem handled automatic loading of kernel modules. A local user could use this flaw to load any installed kernel module, and thus increase the attack surface of the running kernel. (CVE-2013-7421, CVE-2014-9644, Low)

* An information leak flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel changed certain segment registers and thread-local storage (TLS) during a context switch. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to leak the user space TLS base address of an arbitrary process.
(CVE-2014-9419, Low)

* 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-2015-0239, Low)

* A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled the securelevel functionality after performing a kexec operation. A local attacker could use this flaw to bypass the security mechanism of the securelevel/secureboot combination. (CVE-2015-7837, Low)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-3101 advisory.

    - ipc/sem.c: fully initialize sem_array before making it visible (Manfred Spraul)  [Orabug: 22277382]     {CVE-2015-7613}
    - ipc: fix msg newqueue add (Guru Anbalagane)  [Orabug: 22277382]  {CVE-2015-7613}
    - sctp: fix race on protocol/netns initialization (Marcelo Ricardo Leitner)  [Orabug: 22249981]     {CVE-2015-5283}
    - Initialize msg/shm IPC objects before doing ipc_addid() (Linus Torvalds)  [Orabug: 22250045]     {CVE-2015-7613}

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.

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-2152 advisory.

    - [kernel] Initialize msg/shm IPC objects before doing ipc_addid() (Lennert Buytenhek) [1271507]     {CVE-2015-7613}
    - [fs] vfs: Test for and handle paths that are unreachable from their mnt_root ('Eric W. Biederman')     [1209371] {CVE-2015-2925}
    - [fs] dcache: Handle escaped paths in prepend_path ('Eric W. Biederman') [1209371] {CVE-2015-2925}
    - [net] sctp: fix race on protocol/netns initialization (Marcelo Leitner) [1251807] {CVE-2015-5283}

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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:2152 advisory.

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

    * A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's file system implementation     handled rename operations in which the source was inside and the     destination was outside of a bind mount. A privileged user inside a     container could use this flaw to escape the bind mount and, potentially,     escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2015-2925, Important)

    * A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's IPC     subsystem initialized certain fields in an IPC object structure that were     later used for permission checking before inserting the object into a     globally visible list. A local, unprivileged user could potentially use     this flaw to elevate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2015-7613,     Important)

    * It was found that reporting emulation failures to user space could lead     to either a local (CVE-2014-7842) or a L2->L1 (CVE-2010-5313) denial of     service. In the case of a local denial of service, an attacker must have     access to the MMIO area or be able to access an I/O port. (CVE-2010-5313,     CVE-2014-7842, Moderate)

    * 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,     Moderate)

    * It was found that the Linux kernel memory resource controller's (memcg)     handling of OOM (out of memory) conditions could lead to deadlocks.
    An attacker could use this flaw to lock up the system. (CVE-2014-8171,     Moderate)

    * A race condition flaw was found between the chown and execve system     calls. A local, unprivileged user could potentially use this flaw to     escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2015-3339, Moderate)

    * A flaw was discovered in the way the Linux kernel's TTY subsystem handled     the tty shutdown phase. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to     cause a denial of service on the system. (CVE-2015-4170, Moderate)

    * A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the SCTP implementation.
    A local user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service on the system     by triggering a kernel panic when creating multiple sockets in parallel     while the system did not have the SCTP module loaded. (CVE-2015-5283,     Moderate)

    * A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's perf subsystem retrieved     userlevel stack traces on PowerPC systems. A local, unprivileged user could     use this flaw to cause a denial of service on the system. (CVE-2015-6526,     Moderate)

    * A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Crypto subsystem handled     automatic loading of kernel modules. A local user could use this flaw to     load any installed kernel module, and thus increase the attack surface of     the running kernel. (CVE-2013-7421, CVE-2014-9644, Low)

    * An information leak flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel changed     certain segment registers and thread-local storage (TLS) during a context     switch. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to leak the user     space TLS base address of an arbitrary process. (CVE-2014-9419, Low)

    * 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-2015-0239, Low)

    * A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled the securelevel     functionality after performing a kexec operation. A local attacker could     use this flaw to bypass the security mechanism of the     securelevel/secureboot combination. (CVE-2015-7837, Low)

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 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2797-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not check if a new IPv6 MTU set by a user space application     was valid. A remote attacker could forge a route advertisement with an invalid MTU that a user space     daemon like NetworkManager would honor and apply to the kernel, causing a denial of service.
    (CVE-2015-0272)

    It was discovered that in certain situations, a directory could be renamed outside of a bind mounted     location. An attacker could use this to escape bind mount containment and gain access to sensitive     information. (CVE-2015-2925)

    Moein Ghasemzadeh discovered that the USB WhiteHEAT serial driver contained hardcoded attributes about the     USB devices. An attacker could construct a fake WhiteHEAT USB device that, when inserted, causes a denial     of service (system crash). (CVE-2015-5257)

    It was discovered that the SCTP protocol implementation in the Linux kernel performed an incorrect     sequence of protocol-initialization steps. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service     (system crash). (CVE-2015-5283)

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.

The openSUSE 13.2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

Following security bugs were fixed :

  - CVE-2015-3290: arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S in the Linux     kernel on the x86_64 platform improperly relied on     espfix64 during nested NMI processing, which allowed     local users to gain privileges by triggering an NMI     within a certain instruction window (bnc#937969)

  - CVE-2015-0272: It was reported that it's possible to     craft a Router Advertisement message which will bring     the receiver in a state where new IPv6 connections will     not be accepted until correct Router Advertisement     message received. (bsc#944296).

  - CVE-2015-5283: The sctp_init function in     net/sctp/protocol.c in the Linux kernel had an incorrect     sequence of protocol-initialization steps, which allowed     local users to cause a denial of service (panic or     memory corruption) by creating SCTP sockets before all     of the steps have finished (bnc#947155).

  - CVE-2015-1333: Memory leak in the __key_link_end     function in security/keys/keyring.c in the Linux kernel     allowed local users to cause a denial of service (memory     consumption) via many add_key system calls that refer to     existing keys. (bsc#938645)

  - CVE-2015-5707: Integer overflow in the sg_start_req     function in drivers/scsi/sg.c in the Linux kernel     allowed local users to cause a denial of service or     possibly have unspecified other impact via a large     iov_count value in a write request. (bsc#940338)

  - CVE-2015-2925: An attacker could potentially break out     of a namespace or container, depending on if he had     specific rights in these containers. (bsc#926238).

  - CVE-2015-7872: A vulnerability in keyrings garbage     collector allowed a local user to trigger an oops was     found, caused by using request_key() or keyctl request2.
    (bsc#951440)

The following non-security bugs were fixed :

  - input: evdev - do not report errors form flush()     (bsc#939834).

  - NFSv4: Recovery of recalled read delegations is broken     (bsc#942178).

  - apparmor: temporary work around for bug while unloading     policy (boo#941867).

  - config/x86_64/ec2: Align CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM     CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is enabled in every other kernel     flavor, so enable it for x86_64/ec2 as well.

  - kernel-obs-build: add btrfs to initrd This is needed for     kiwi builds.

  - mmc: card: Do not access RPMB partitions for normal     read/write (bnc#941104).

  - netback: coalesce (guest) RX SKBs as needed     (bsc#919154).

  - rpm/kernel-obs-build.spec.in: Add virtio_rng to the     initrd. This allows to feed some randomness to the OBS     workers.

  - xfs: Fix file type directory corruption for btree     directories (bsc#941305).

  - xfs: ensure buffer types are set correctly (bsc#941305).

  - xfs: inode unlink does not set AGI buffer type     (bsc#941305).

  - xfs: set buf types when converting extent formats     (bsc#941305).

  - xfs: set superblock buffer type correctly (bsc#941305).

  - xhci: Add spurious wakeup quirk for LynxPoint-LP     controllers (bnc#951195).

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.48-52.27 to receive various security and bugfixes.

Following security bugs were fixed :

  - CVE-2015-7613: A flaw was found in the Linux kernel IPC     code that could lead to arbitrary code execution. The     ipc_addid() function initialized a shared object that     has unset uid/gid values. Since the fields are not     initialized, the check can falsely succeed. (bsc#948536)

  - CVE-2015-5156: When a guests KVM network devices is in a     bridge configuration the kernel can create a situation     in which packets are fragmented in an unexpected     fashion. The GRO functionality can create a situation in     which multiple SKB's are chained together in a single     packets fraglist (by design). (bsc#940776)

  - CVE-2015-5157: arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S in the Linux     kernel before 4.1.6 on the x86_64 platform mishandles     IRET faults in processing NMIs that occurred during     userspace execution, which might allow local users to     gain privileges by triggering an NMI (bsc#938706).

  - CVE-2015-6252: A flaw was found in the way the Linux     kernel's vhost driver treated userspace provided log     file descriptor when processing the VHOST_SET_LOG_FD     ioctl command. The file descriptor was never released     and continued to consume kernel memory. A privileged     local user with access to the /dev/vhost-net files could     use this flaw to create a denial-of-service attack     (bsc#942367).

  - CVE-2015-5697: The get_bitmap_file function in     drivers/md/md.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.6 does     not initialize a certain bitmap data structure, which     allows local users to obtain sensitive information from     kernel memory via a GET_BITMAP_FILE ioctl call.
    (bnc#939994)

  - CVE-2015-6937: A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found     in the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) implementation     allowing a local user to cause system DoS. A     verification was missing that the underlying transport     exists when a connection was created. (bsc#945825)

  - CVE-2015-5283: A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found     in SCTP implementation allowing a local user to cause     system DoS. Creation of multiple sockets in parallel     when system doesn't have SCTP module loaded can lead to     kernel panic. (bsc#947155)

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.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service, unauthorised information disclosure or unauthorised information modification.

  - CVE-2015-2925     Jann Horn discovered that when a subdirectory of a     filesystem was bind-mounted into a chroot or mount     namespace, a user that should be confined to that chroot     or namespace could access the whole of that filesystem     if they had write permission on an ancestor of the     subdirectory. This is not a common configuration for     wheezy, and the issue has previously been fixed for     jessie.

  - CVE-2015-5257     Moein Ghasemzadeh of Istuary Innovation Labs reported     that a USB device could cause a denial of service     (crash) by imitating a Whiteheat USB serial device but     presenting a smaller number of endpoints.

  - CVE-2015-5283     Marcelo Ricardo Leitner discovered that creating     multiple SCTP sockets at the same time could cause a     denial of service (crash) if the sctp module had not     previously been loaded. This issue only affects jessie.

  - CVE-2015-7613     Dmitry Vyukov discovered that System V IPC objects     (message queues and shared memory segments) were made     accessible before their ownership and other attributes     were fully initialised. If a local user can race against     another user or service creating a new IPC object, this     may result in unauthorised information disclosure,     unauthorised information modification, denial of service     and/or privilege escalation.

  A similar issue existed with System V semaphore arrays, but was less   severe because they were always cleared before being fully   initialised.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199273	RHEL 6 : kernel (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
199257	RHEL 5 : kernel (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
124837	EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1516)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
124812	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1488)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
99163	OracleVM 3.3 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0057) (Dirty COW)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	critical
97422	F5 Networks BIG-IP : Linux kernel SCTP vulnerability (K37510383)	Nessus	F5 Networks Local Security Checks	medium
88571	RHEL 7 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2015:2411)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
88545	openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-124)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
87559	Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20151119)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	medium
87217	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2829-2)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
87216	Ubuntu 15.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2829-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
87214	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2015:2194-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
87203	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2826-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
87169	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2823-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
87167	OracleVM 3.3 : kernel-uek (OVMSA-2015-0150)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	medium
87135	CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2015:2152)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
87098	Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2015-3101)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
87090	Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2015-2152)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
86972	RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2015:2152)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
86787	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2797-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
86668	openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2015-686)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
86378	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel-source (SUSE-SU-2015:1727-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
86375	Debian DSA-3372-1 : linux - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

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