SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2021:3415-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 154133

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:3415-1 advisory.

- An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.6.11. sg_write lacks an sg_remove_request call in a certain failure case, aka CID-83c6f2390040. (CVE-2020-12770)

- u'Specifically timed and handcrafted traffic can cause internal errors in a WLAN device that lead to improper layer 2 Wi-Fi encryption with a consequent possibility of information disclosure over the air for a discrete set of traffic' in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking in APQ8053, IPQ4019, IPQ8064, MSM8909W, MSM8996AU, QCA9531, QCN5502, QCS405, SDX20, SM6150, SM7150 (CVE-2020-3702)

- In the Linux kernel through 5.13.7, an unprivileged BPF program can obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a Speculative Store Bypass side-channel attack because the protection mechanism neglects the possibility of uninitialized memory locations on the BPF stack. (CVE-2021-34556)

- In the Linux kernel through 5.13.7, an unprivileged BPF program can obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a Speculative Store Bypass side-channel attack because a certain preempting store operation does not necessarily occur before a store operation that has an attacker-controlled value.
(CVE-2021-35477)

- A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting SVM nested virtualization. The flaw occurs when processing the VMCB (virtual machine control block) provided by the L1 guest to spawn/handle a nested guest (L2). Due to improper validation of the int_ctl field, this issue could allow a malicious L1 to enable AVIC support (Advanced Virtual Interrupt Controller) for the L2 guest. As a result, the L2 guest would be allowed to read/write physical pages of the host, resulting in a crash of the entire system, leak of sensitive data or potential guest-to-host escape. This flaw affects Linux kernel versions prior to 5.14-rc7. (CVE-2021-3653)

- A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting SVM nested virtualization. The flaw occurs when processing the VMCB (virtual machine control block) provided by the L1 guest to spawn/handle a nested guest (L2). Due to improper validation of the virt_ext field, this issue could allow a malicious L1 to disable both VMLOAD/VMSAVE intercepts and VLS (Virtual VMLOAD/VMSAVE) for the L2 guest. As a result, the L2 guest would be allowed to read/write physical pages of the host, resulting in a crash of the entire system, leak of sensitive data or potential guest-to-host escape. (CVE-2021-3656)

- A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. Measuring usage of the shared memory does not scale with large shared memory segment counts which could lead to resource exhaustion and DoS. (CVE-2021-3669)

- A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's OverlayFS subsystem in the way the user mounts the TmpFS filesystem with OverlayFS. This flaw allows a local user to gain access to hidden files that should not be accessible. (CVE-2021-3732)

- A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the btrfs_rm_device function in fs/btrfs/volumes.c in the Linux Kernel, where triggering the bug requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN'. This flaw allows a local attacker to crash the system or leak kernel internal information. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2021-3739)

- An out-of-bounds (OOB) memory read flaw was found in the Qualcomm IPC router protocol in the Linux kernel.
A missing sanity check allows a local attacker to gain access to out-of-bounds memory, leading to a system crash or a leak of internal kernel information. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2021-3743)

- A memory leak flaw was found in the Linux kernel in the ccp_run_aes_gcm_cmd() function in drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-ops.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption).
This vulnerability is similar with the older CVE-2019-18808. (CVE-2021-3744)

- A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Bluetooth subsystem in the way user calls connect to the socket and disconnect simultaneously due to a race condition. This flaw allows a user to crash the system or escalate their privileges. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability. (CVE-2021-3752)

- A race problem was seen in the vt_k_ioctl in drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c in the Linux kernel, which may cause an out of bounds read in vt as the write access to vc_mode is not protected by lock-in vt_ioctl (KDSETMDE). The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality. (CVE-2021-3753)

- A memory overflow vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's ipc functionality of the memcg subsystem, in the way a user calls the semget function multiple times, creating semaphores. This flaw allows a local user to starve the resources, causing a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2021-3759)

- A memory leak flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ccp_run_aes_gcm_cmd() function that allows an attacker to cause a denial of service. The vulnerability is similar to the older CVE-2019-18808. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2021-3764)

- ** DISPUTED ** In drivers/char/virtio_console.c in the Linux kernel before 5.13.4, data corruption or loss can be triggered by an untrusted device that supplies a buf->len value exceeding the buffer size. NOTE:
the vendor indicates that the cited data corruption is not a vulnerability in any existing use case; the length validation was added solely for robustness in the face of anomalous host OS behavior.
(CVE-2021-38160)

- arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h in the Linux kernel before 5.12.11 incorrectly computes the access permissions of a shadow page, leading to a missing guest protection page fault. (CVE-2021-38198)

- A race condition was discovered in ext4_write_inline_data_end in fs/ext4/inline.c in the ext4 subsystem in the Linux kernel through 5.13.13. (CVE-2021-40490)

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189567

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189568

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189569

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189573

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189574

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189575

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189576

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189577

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189579

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189581

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189582

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189583

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189585

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189586

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189587

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189696

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189706

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189760

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189762

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189832

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189841

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189870

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189872

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189883

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189884

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190022

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190023

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190025

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190062

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190115

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190117

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190131

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190138

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190159

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190181

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190358

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190406

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190412

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190413

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190428

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190467

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190523

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190534

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190543

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190544

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190561

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190576

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190595

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190596

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190598

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190620

https://bugzilla.suse.com/859220

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1065729

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1124431

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1127650

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1135481

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1148868

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1152489

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1154353

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1159886

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1167032

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1167773

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1168202

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1170774

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1171420

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1171688

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1173746

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1174003

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1175543

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1176447

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1176940

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1177028

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1177399

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178134

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1180141

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1180347

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1181006

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1181972

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1184114

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1184439

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1184611

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1184804

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185302

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185550

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185675

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185677

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185726

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185762

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185898

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1187211

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1187455

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1187591

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1187619

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188067

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188172

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188270

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188412

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188418

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188439

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188616

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188651

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188694

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188700

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188878

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188924

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188983

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188985

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188986

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189153

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189225

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189257

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189262

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189297

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189301

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189399

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189400

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189503

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189504

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189505

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189506

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189507

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189562

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189563

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189564

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189565

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189566

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190626

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190679

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190705

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190717

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190746

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190758

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190784

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190785

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1191172

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1191193

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1191292

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12770

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-3702

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-34556

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35477

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3653

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3656

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3669

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3732

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3739

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3743

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3744

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3752

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3753

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3759

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3764

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-38160

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-38198

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-40490

http://www.nessus.org/u?3f420fb0

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 154133

File Name: suse_SU-2021-3415-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2021

Updated: 7/13/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.9

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3752

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-2021-3656

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cluster-md-kmp-rt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dlm-kmp-rt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gfs2-kmp-rt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-devel-rt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-rt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-rt-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-rt_debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-source-rt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-syms-rt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ocfs2-kmp-rt, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 10/13/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/9/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12770, CVE-2020-3702, CVE-2021-34556, CVE-2021-35477, CVE-2021-3653, CVE-2021-3656, CVE-2021-3669, CVE-2021-3732, CVE-2021-3739, CVE-2021-3743, CVE-2021-3744, CVE-2021-3752, CVE-2021-3753, CVE-2021-3759, CVE-2021-3764, CVE-2021-38160, CVE-2021-38198, CVE-2021-40490

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:3415-1