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Debian DSA-4531-1 : linux - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 129306

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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

 - CVE-2019-14821 Matt Delco reported a race condition in KVM's coalesced MMIO facility, which could lead to out-of-bounds access in the kernel. A local attacker permitted to access /dev/kvm could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

 - CVE-2019-14835 Peter Pi of Tencent Blade Team discovered a missing bounds check in vhost_net, the network back-end driver for KVM hosts, leading to a buffer overflow when the host begins live migration of a VM. An attacker in control of a VM could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation on the host.

 - CVE-2019-15117 Hui Peng and Mathias Payer reported a missing bounds check in the usb-audio driver's descriptor parsing code, leading to a buffer over-read. An attacker able to add USB devices could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (crash).

 - CVE-2019-15118 Hui Peng and Mathias Payer reported unbounded recursion in the usb-audio driver's descriptor parsing code, leading to a stack overflow. An attacker able to add USB devices could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation. On the amd64 architecture, and on the arm64 architecture in buster, this is mitigated by a guard page on the kernel stack, so that it is only possible to cause a crash.

 - CVE-2019-15902 Brad Spengler reported that a backporting error reintroduced a spectre-v1 vulnerability in the ptrace subsystem in the ptrace_get_debugreg() function.

Solution

Upgrade the linux packages.

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 4.9.189-3+deb9u1.

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 4.19.67-2+deb10u1.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-14821

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-14835

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-15117

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-15118

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-15902

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/linux

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/linux

https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/linux

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4531

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 129306

File Name: debian_DSA-4531.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/25/2019

Updated: 4/23/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14835

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14821

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:linux, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/25/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/16/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14821, CVE-2019-14835, CVE-2019-15117, CVE-2019-15118, CVE-2019-15902

DSA: 4531