SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 8263 / 8265 / 8273)

high Nessus Plugin ID 70039

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Synopsis

The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 2 kernel has been updated to version 3.0.93 and includes various bug and security fixes.

The following security bugs have been fixed :

- The fill_event_metadata function in fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain structure member, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a read operation on the fanotify descriptor. (CVE-2013-2148)

- The key_notify_policy_flush function in net/key/af_key.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain structure member, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by reading a broadcast message from the notify_policy interface of an IPSec key_socket. (CVE-2013-2237)

- The ip6_sk_dst_check function in net/ipv6/ip6_output.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by using an AF_INET6 socket for a connection to an IPv4 interface.
(CVE-2013-2232)

- The (1) key_notify_sa_flush and (2) key_notify_policy_flush functions in net/key/af_key.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize certain structure members, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by reading a broadcast message from the notify interface of an IPSec key_socket. (CVE-2013-2234)

- The udp_v6_push_pending_frames function in net/ipv6/udp.c in the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel made an incorrect function call for pending data, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash) via a crafted application that uses the UDP_CORK option in a setsockopt system call.
(CVE-2013-4162)

- net/ceph/auth_none.c in the Linux kernel allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an auth_reply message that triggers an attempted build_request operation.
(CVE-2013-1059)

- The mmc_ioctl_cdrom_read_data function in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a read operation on a malfunctioning CD-ROM drive.
(CVE-2013-2164)

- Format string vulnerability in the register_disk function in block/genhd.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to gain privileges by leveraging root access and writing format string specifiers to /sys/module/md_mod/parameters/new_array in order to create a crafted /dev/md device name. (CVE-2013-2851)

- The ip6_append_data_mtu function in net/ipv6/ip6_output.c in the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly maintain information about whether the IPV6_MTU setsockopt option had been specified, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash) via a crafted application that uses the UDP_CORK option in a setsockopt system call. (CVE-2013-4163)

- Heap-based buffer overflow in the tg3_read_vpd function in drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c in the Linux kernel allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted firmware that specifies a long string in the Vital Product Data (VPD) data structure. (CVE-2013-1929)

- The _xfs_buf_find function in fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c in the Linux kernel did not validate block numbers, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the ability to mount an XFS filesystem containing a metadata inode with an invalid extent map. (CVE-2013-1819)

- The chase_port function in drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via an attempted /dev/ttyUSB read or write operation on a disconnected Edgeport USB serial converter.
(CVE-2013-1774)

Also the following bugs have been fixed :

BTRFS :

- btrfs: merge contiguous regions when loading free space cache

- btrfs: fix how we deal with the orphan block rsv

- btrfs: fix wrong check during log recovery

- btrfs: change how we indicate we are adding csums

- btrfs: flush delayed inodes if we are short on space.
(bnc#801427)

- btrfs: rework shrink_delalloc. (bnc#801427)

- btrfs: fix our overcommit math. (bnc#801427)

- btrfs: delay block group item insertion. (bnc#801427)

- btrfs: remove bytes argument from do_chunk_alloc.
(bnc#801427)

- btrfs: run delayed refs first when out of space.
(bnc#801427)

- btrfs: do not commit instead of overcommitting.
(bnc#801427)

- btrfs: do not take inode delalloc mutex if we are a free space inode. (bnc#801427)

- btrfs: fix chunk allocation error handling. (bnc#801427)

- btrfs: remove extent mapping if we fail to add chunk.
(bnc#801427)

- btrfs: do not overcommit if we do not have enough space for global rsv. (bnc#801427)

- btrfs: rework the overcommit logic to be based on the total size. (bnc#801427)

- btrfs: steal from global reserve if we are cleaning up orphans. (bnc#801427)

- btrfs: clear chunk_alloc flag on retryable failure.
(bnc#801427)

- btrfs: use reserved space for creating a snapshot.
(bnc#801427)

- btrfs: cleanup to make the function btrfs_delalloc_reserve_metadata more logic. (bnc#801427)

- btrfs: fix space leak when we fail to reserve metadata space. (bnc#801427)

- btrfs: fix space accounting for unlink and rename.
(bnc#801427)

- btrfs: allocate new chunks if the space is not enough for global rsv. (bnc#801427)

- btrfs: various abort cleanups. (bnc#812526 / bnc#801427)

- btrfs: simplify unlink reservations (bnc#801427). OTHER :

- x86: Add workaround to NMI iret woes. (bnc#831949)

- x86: Do not schedule while still in NMI context.
(bnc#831949)

- bnx2x: Avoid sending multiple statistics queries.
(bnc#814336)

- bnx2x: protect different statistics flows. (bnc#814336)

- futex: Take hugepages into account when generating futex_key.

- drivers/hv: util: Fix a bug in version negotiation code for util services. (bnc#828714)

- printk: Add NMI ringbuffer. (bnc#831949)

- printk: extract ringbuffer handling from vprintk.
(bnc#831949)

- printk: NMI safe printk. (bnc#831949)

- printk: Make NMI ringbuffer size independent on log_buf_len. (bnc#831949)

- printk: Do not call console_unlock from nmi context.
(bnc#831949)

- printk: Do not use printk_cpu from finish_printk.
(bnc#831949)

- mlx4_en: Adding 40gb speed report for ethtool.
(bnc#831410)

- reiserfs: Fixed double unlock in reiserfs_setattr failure path.

- reiserfs: delay reiserfs lock until journal initialization. (bnc#815320)

- reiserfs: do not lock journal_init(). (bnc#815320)

- reiserfs: locking, handle nested locks properly.
(bnc#815320)

- reiserfs: locking, push write lock out of xattr code.
(bnc#815320)

- reiserfs: locking, release lock around quota operations.
(bnc#815320)

- NFS: support 'nosharetransport' option (bnc#807502, bnc#828192, FATE#315593).

- dm mpath: add retain_attached_hw_handler feature.
(bnc#760407)

- scsi_dh: add scsi_dh_attached_handler_name. (bnc#760407)

- bonding: disallow change of MAC if fail_over_mac enabled. (bnc#827376)

- bonding: propagate unicast lists down to slaves.
(bnc#773255 / bnc#827372)

- bonding: emit address change event also in bond_release.
(bnc#773255 / bnc#827372)

- bonding: emit event when bonding changes MAC.
(bnc#773255 / bnc#827372)

- SUNRPC: Ensure we release the socket write lock if the rpc_task exits early. (bnc#830901)

- ext4: force read-only unless rw=1 module option is used (fate#314864).

- HID: fix unused rsize usage. (bnc#783475)

- HID: fix data access in implement(). (bnc#783475)

- xfs: fix deadlock in xfs_rtfree_extent with kernel v3.x.
(bnc#829622)

- r8169: allow multicast packets on sub-8168f chipset.
(bnc#805371)

- r8169: support new chips of RTL8111F. (bnc#805371)

- r8169: define the early size for 8111evl. (bnc#805371)

- r8169: fix the reset setting for 8111evl. (bnc#805371)

- r8169: add MODULE_FIRMWARE for the firmware of 8111evl.
(bnc#805371)

- r8169: fix sticky accepts packet bits in RxConfig.
(bnc#805371)

- r8169: adjust the RxConfig settings. (bnc#805371)

- r8169: support RTL8111E-VL. (bnc#805371)

- r8169: add ERI functions. (bnc#805371)

- r8169: modify the flow of the hw reset. (bnc#805371)

- r8169: adjust some registers. (bnc#805371)

- r8169: check firmware content sooner. (bnc#805371)

- r8169: support new firmware format. (bnc#805371)

- r8169: explicit firmware format check. (bnc#805371)

- r8169: move the firmware down into the device private data. (bnc#805371)

- mm: link_mem_sections make sure nmi watchdog does not trigger while linking memory sections. (bnc#820434)

- kernel: lost IPIs on CPU hotplug (bnc#825048, LTC#94784).

- iwlwifi: use correct supported firmware for 6035 and 6000g2. (bnc#825887)

- watchdog: Update watchdog_thresh atomically.
(bnc#829357)

- watchdog: update watchdog_tresh properly. (bnc#829357)

- watchdog:
watchdog-make-disable-enable-hotplug-and-preempt-save.pa tch. (bnc#829357)

- include/1/smp.h: define __smp_call_function_single for !CONFIG_SMP. (bnc#829357)

- lpfc: Return correct error code on bsg_timeout.
(bnc#816043)

- dm-multipath: Drop table when retrying ioctl.
(bnc#808940)

- scsi: Do not retry invalid function error. (bnc#809122)

- scsi: Always retry internal target error. (bnc#745640, bnc#825227)

- ibmvfc: Driver version 1.0.1. (bnc#825142)

- ibmvfc: Fix for offlining devices during error recovery.
(bnc#825142)

- ibmvfc: Properly set cancel flags when cancelling abort.
(bnc#825142)

- ibmvfc: Send cancel when link is down. (bnc#825142)

- ibmvfc: Support FAST_IO_FAIL in EH handlers.
(bnc#825142)

- ibmvfc: Suppress ABTS if target gone. (bnc#825142)

- fs/dcache.c: add cond_resched() to shrink_dcache_parent(). (bnc#829082)

- kmsg_dump: do not run on non-error paths by default.
(bnc#820172)

- mm: honor min_free_kbytes set by user. (bnc#826960)

- hyperv: Fix a kernel warning from netvsc_linkstatus_callback(). (bnc#828574)

- RT: Fix up hardening patch to not gripe when avg > available, which lockless access makes possible and happens in -rt kernels running a cpubound ltp realtime testcase. Just keep the output sane in that case.

- md/raid10: Fix two bug affecting RAID10 reshape (-).

- Allow NFSv4 to run execute-only files. (bnc#765523)

- fs/ocfs2/namei.c: remove unnecessary ERROR when removing non-empty directory. (bnc#819363)

- block: Reserve only one queue tag for sync IO if only 3 tags are available. (bnc#806396)

- drm/i915: Add wait_for in init_ring_common. (bnc#813604)

- drm/i915: Mark the ringbuffers as being in the GTT domain. (bnc#813604)

- ext4: avoid hang when mounting non-journal filesystems with orphan list. (bnc#817377)

- autofs4 - fix get_next_positive_subdir(). (bnc#819523)

- ocfs2: Add bits_wanted while calculating credits in ocfs2_calc_extend_credits. (bnc#822077)

- re-enable io tracing. (bnc#785901)

- SUNRPC: Prevent an rpc_task wakeup race. (bnc#825591)

- tg3: Prevent system hang during repeated EEH errors.
(bnc#822066)

- backends: Check for insane amounts of requests on the ring.

- Update Xen patches to 3.0.82.

- netiucv: Hold rtnl between name allocation and device registration. (bnc#824159)

- drm/edid: Do not print messages regarding stereo or csync by default. (bnc#821235)

- net/sunrpc: xpt_auth_cache should be ignored when expired. (bnc#803320)

- sunrpc/cache: ensure items removed from cache do not have pending upcalls. (bnc#803320)

- sunrpc/cache: remove races with queuing an upcall.
(bnc#803320)

- sunrpc/cache: use cache_fresh_unlocked consistently and correctly. (bnc#803320)

- md/raid10 'enough' fixes. (bnc#773837)

- Update config files: disable IP_PNP. (bnc#822825)

- Disable efi pstore by default. (bnc#804482 / bnc#820172)

- md: Fix problem with GET_BITMAP_FILE returning wrong status. (bnc#812974 / bnc#823497)

- USB: xHCI: override bogus bulk wMaxPacketSize values.
(bnc#823082)

- ALSA: hda - Fix system panic when DMA > 40 bits for Nvidia audio controllers. (bnc#818465)

- USB: UHCI: fix for suspend of virtual HP controller.
(bnc#817035)

- mm: mmu_notifier: re-fix freed page still mapped in secondary MMU. (bnc#821052)

Solution

Apply SAT patch number 8263 / 8265 / 8273 as appropriate.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 70039

File Name: suse_11_kernel-130827.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/21/2013

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-syms, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-default-extra, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-xen-extra, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-source, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-default-man, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-ec2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-ec2-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-trace-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-default-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-xen-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-trace-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-pae-extra, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:xen-kmp-trace, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-pae-base, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-trace, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-trace-extra, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-default-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-ec2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:xen-kmp-pae, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:xen-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:kernel-pae-devel

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/27/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1059, CVE-2013-1774, CVE-2013-1819, CVE-2013-1929, CVE-2013-2148, CVE-2013-2164, CVE-2013-2232, CVE-2013-2234, CVE-2013-2237, CVE-2013-2851, CVE-2013-4162, CVE-2013-4163

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