SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:1671-1) (SACK Panic) (SACK Slowness)

high Nessus Plugin ID 126171

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.121-92_104 fixes several issues.

The following security issues were fixed :

CVE-2019-3846: A flaw that allowed an attacker to corrupt memory and possibly escalate privileges was found in the mwifiex kernel module while connecting to a malicious wireless network (bsc#1136446).

CVE-2019-11477: A sequence of SACKs may have been crafted by a remote attacker such that one can trigger an integer overflow, leading to a kernel panic. (bsc#1137586).

CVE-2019-11478: It was possible to send a crafted sequence of SACKs which would fragment the TCP retransmission queue. A remote attacker may have been able to further exploit the fragmented queue to cause an expensive linked-list walk for subsequent SACKs received for that same TCP connection. (bsc#1137586)

CVE-2019-11487: The Linux kernel allowed page->_refcount reference count overflow, with resultant use-after-free issues, if about 140 GiB of RAM exists. This is related to fs/fuse/dev.c, fs/pipe.c, fs/splice.c, include/linux/mm.h, include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h, kernel/trace/trace.c, mm/gup.c, and mm/hugetlb.c. It can occur with FUSE requests (bsc#1133191).

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.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2019-1653=1 SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2019-1654=1 SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2019-1656=1 SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2019-1669=1 SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2019-1670=1 SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2019-1671=1 SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2019-1672=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2019-1653=1 SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2019-1654=1 SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2019-1656=1 SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2019-1669=1 SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2019-1670=1 SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2019-1671=1 SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2019-1672=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Live-Patching-12-SP4-2019-1649=1 SUSE-SLE-Live-Patching-12-SP4-2019-1675=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Live-Patching-12-SP3-2019-1655=1 SUSE-SLE-Live-Patching-12-SP3-2019-1657=1 SUSE-SLE-Live-Patching-12-SP3-2019-1658=1 SUSE-SLE-Live-Patching-12-SP3-2019-1659=1 SUSE-SLE-Live-Patching-12-SP3-2019-1660=1 SUSE-SLE-Live-Patching-12-SP3-2019-1661=1 SUSE-SLE-Live-Patching-12-SP3-2019-1662=1 SUSE-SLE-Live-Patching-12-SP3-2019-1663=1 SUSE-SLE-Live-Patching-12-SP3-2019-1673=1 SUSE-SLE-Live-Patching-12-SP3-2019-1676=1 SUSE-SLE-Live-Patching-12-SP3-2019-1677=1 SUSE-SLE-Live-Patching-12-SP3-2019-1678=1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 126171

File Name: suse_SU-2019-1671-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/24/2019

Updated: 5/14/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-3846

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kgraft-patch-4_4_121-92_101-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kgraft-patch-4_4_121-92_104-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kgraft-patch-4_4_121-92_109-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kgraft-patch-4_4_121-92_85-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kgraft-patch-4_4_121-92_92-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kgraft-patch-4_4_121-92_95-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kgraft-patch-4_4_121-92_98-default, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/21/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/23/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11477, CVE-2019-11478, CVE-2019-11487, CVE-2019-3846

Detections

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