SuSE 11.3 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 10037 / 10040)

high Nessus Plugin ID 80249

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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 3 kernel has been updated to fix various bugs and security issues.

The following security bugs have been fixed :

- The __request_module function in kernel/kmod.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4 did not set a certain killable attribute, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted application. (bnc#779488). (CVE-2012-4398)

- drivers/hid/hid-zpff.c in the Human Interface Device (HID) subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIG_HID_ZEROPLUS is enabled, allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based out-of-bounds write) via a crafted device.
(bnc#835839). (CVE-2013-2889)

- The Human Interface Device (HID) subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIG_LOGITECH_FF, CONFIG_LOGIG940_FF, or CONFIG_LOGIWHEELS_FF is enabled, allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based out-of-bounds write) via a crafted device, related to (1) drivers/hid/hid-lgff.c, (2) drivers/hid/hid-lg3ff.c, and (3) drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.c. (bnc#835839). (CVE-2013-2893)

- Multiple array index errors in drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c in the Human Interface Device (HID) subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIG_HID_MULTITOUCH is enabled, allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption, or NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) via a crafted device.
(bnc#835839). (CVE-2013-2897)

- drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c in the Human Interface Device (HID) subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.11, when CONFIG_HID_PICOLCD is enabled, allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) via a crafted device.
(bnc#835839). (CVE-2013-2899)

- The Linux kernel before 3.12.4 updates certain length values before ensuring that associated data structures have been initialized, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a (1) recvfrom, (2) recvmmsg, or (3) recvmsg system call, related to net/ipv4/ping.c, net/ipv4/raw.c, net/ipv4/udp.c, net/ipv6/raw.c, and net/ipv6/udp.c.
(bnc#853040, bnc#857643). (CVE-2013-7263)

- Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the magicmouse_raw_event function in drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c in the Magic Mouse HID driver in the Linux kernel through 3.16.3 allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted device that provides a large amount of (1) EHCI or (2) XHCI data associated with an event.
(bnc#896382). (CVE-2014-3181)

- The report_fixup functions in the HID subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.16.2 allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted device that provides a small report descriptor, related to (1) drivers/hid/hid-cherry.c, (2) drivers/hid/hid-kye.c, (3) drivers/hid/hid-lg.c, (4) drivers/hid/hid-monterey.c, (5) drivers/hid/hid-petalynx.c, and (6) drivers/hid/hid-sunplus.c. (bnc#896390). (CVE-2014-3184)

- Multiple buffer overflows in the command_port_read_callback function in drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c in the Whiteheat USB Serial Driver in the Linux kernel before 3.16.2 allowed physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) via a crafted device that provides a large amount of (1) EHCI or (2) XHCI data associated with a bulk response. (bnc#896391). (CVE-2014-3185)

- Buffer overflow in the picolcd_raw_event function in devices/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c in the PicoLCD HID device driver in the Linux kernel through 3.16.3, as used in Android on Nexus 7 devices, allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted device that sends a large report. (bnc#896392). (CVE-2014-3186)

- The kvm_iommu_map_pages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 miscalculated the number of pages during the handling of a mapping failure, which allowed guest OS users to (1) cause a denial of service (host OS memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a large gfn value or (2) cause a denial of service (host OS memory consumption) by triggering a small gfn value that leads to permanently pinned pages. (bnc#892782). (CVE-2014-3601)

- The WRMSR processing functionality in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 did not properly handle the writing of a non-canonical address to a model-specific register, which allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) by leveraging guest OS privileges, related to the wrmsr_interception function in arch/x86/kvm/svm.c and the handle_wrmsr function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c. (bnc#899192).
(CVE-2014-3610)

- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 did not have an exit handler for the INVVPID instruction, which allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via a crafted application. (bnc#899192). (CVE-2014-3646)

- arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 did not properly perform RIP changes, which allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via a crafted application.
(bnc#899192). (CVE-2014-3647)

- The SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a malformed ASCONF chunk, related to net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c and net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c. (bnc#902346, bnc#902349).
(CVE-2014-3673)

- arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 on 32-bit x86 platforms, when syscall auditing is enabled and the sep CPU feature flag is set, allowed local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS and system crash) via an invalid syscall number, as demonstrated by number 1000. (bnc#883724).
(CVE-2014-4508)

- * DISPUTED * Multiple integer overflows in the lzo1x_decompress_safe function in lib/lzo/lzo1x_decompress_safe.c in the LZO decompressor in the Linux kernel before 3.15.2 allowed context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted Literal Run. NOTE: the author of the LZO algorithms says: The Linux kernel is not affected; media hype. (bnc#883948). (CVE-2014-4608)

- kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 did not properly handle private syscall numbers during use of the ftrace subsystem, which allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via a crafted application. (bnc#904013). (CVE-2014-7826)

- An SCTP server doing ASCONF would panic on malformed INIT ping-of-death. (bnc#905100). (CVE-2014-7841)

- The ieee80211_fragment function in net/mac80211/tx.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.5 did not properly maintain a certain tail pointer, which allowed remote attackers to obtain sensitive cleartext information by reading packets. (bnc#904700). (CVE-2014-8709)

- A local user with write access could have used this flaw to crash the kernel or elevate privileges (bnc#905522).
The following non-security bugs have been fixed:.
(CVE-2014-8884)

- Build the KOTD against the SP3 Update project

- HID: fix kabi breakage.

- NFS: Provide stub nfs_fscache_wait_on_invalidate() for when CONFIG_NFS_FSCACHE=n.

- NFS: fix inverted test for delegation in nfs4_reclaim_open_state. (bnc#903331)

- NFS: remove incorrect Lock reclaim failed! warning.
(bnc#903331)

- NFSv4: nfs4_open_done first must check that GETATTR decoded a file type. (bnc#899574)

- PCI: pciehp: Clear Data Link Layer State Changed during init. (bnc#898295)

- PCI: pciehp: Enable link state change notifications.
(bnc#898295)

- PCI: pciehp: Handle push button event asynchronously.
(bnc#898295)

- PCI: pciehp: Make check_link_active() non-static.
(bnc#898295)

- PCI: pciehp: Use link change notifications for hot-plug and removal. (bnc#898295)

- PCI: pciehp: Use per-slot workqueues to avoid deadlock.
(bnc#898295)

- PCI: pciehp: Use symbolic constants, not hard-coded bitmask. (bnc#898295)

- PM / hibernate: Iterate over set bits instead of PFNs in swsusp_free(). (bnc#860441)

- be2net: Fix invocation of be_close() after be_clear().
(bnc#895468)

- block: Fix bogus partition statistics reports.
(bnc#885077 / bnc#891211)

- block: Fix computation of merged request priority.

- btrfs: Fix wrong device size when we are resizing the device.

- btrfs: Return right extent when fiemap gives unaligned offset and len.

- btrfs: abtract out range locking in clone ioctl().

- btrfs: always choose work from prio_head first.

- btrfs: balance delayed inode updates.

- btrfs: cache extent states in defrag code path.

- btrfs: check file extent type before anything else.
(bnc#897694)

- btrfs: clone, do not create invalid hole extent map.

- btrfs: correctly determine if blocks are shared in btrfs_compare_trees.

- btrfs: do not bug_on if we try to cow a free space cache inode.

- btrfs: ensure btrfs_prev_leaf does not miss 1 item.

- btrfs: ensure readers see new data after a clone operation.

- btrfs: fill_holes: Fix slot number passed to hole_mergeable() call.

- btrfs: filter invalid arg for btrfs resize.

- btrfs: fix EINVAL checks in btrfs_clone.

- btrfs: fix EIO on reading file after ioctl clone works on it.

- btrfs: fix a crash of clone with inline extents split.

- btrfs: fix crash of compressed writes. (bnc#898375)

- btrfs: fix crash when starting transaction.

- btrfs: fix deadlock with nested trans handles.

- btrfs: fix hang on error (such as ENOSPC) when writing extent pages.

- btrfs: fix leaf corruption after __btrfs_drop_extents.

- btrfs: fix race between balance recovery and root deletion.

- btrfs: fix wrong extent mapping for DirectIO.

- btrfs: handle a missing extent for the first file extent.

- btrfs: limit delalloc pages outside of find_delalloc_range. (bnc#898375)

- btrfs: read lock extent buffer while walking backrefs.

- btrfs: remove unused wait queue in struct extent_buffer.

- btrfs: replace EINVAL with ERANGE for resize when ULLONG_MAX.

- btrfs: replace error code from btrfs_drop_extents.

- btrfs: unlock extent and pages on error in cow_file_range.

- btrfs: unlock inodes in correct order in clone ioctl.

- btrfs_ioctl_clone: Move clone code into its own function.

- cifs: delay super block destruction until all cifsFileInfo objects are gone. (bnc#903653)

- drm/i915: Flush the PTEs after updating them before suspend. (bnc#901638)

- drm/i915: Undo gtt scratch pte unmapping again.
(bnc#901638)

- ext3: return 32/64-bit dir name hash according to usage type. (bnc#898554)

- ext4: return 32/64-bit dir name hash according to usage type. (bnc#898554)

- fix: use after free of xfs workqueues. (bnc#894895)

- fs: add new FMODE flags: FMODE_32bithash and FMODE_64bithash. (bnc#898554)

- futex: Ensure get_futex_key_refs() always implies a barrier (bnc#851603 (futex scalability series)).

- futex: Fix a race condition between REQUEUE_PI and task death (bnc#851603 (futex scalability series)).

- ipv6: add support of peer address. (bnc#896415)

- ipv6: fix a refcnt leak with peer addr. (bnc#896415)

- megaraid_sas: Disable fastpath writes for non-RAID0.
(bnc#897502)

- mm: change __remove_pages() to call release_mem_region_adjustable(). (bnc#891790)

- netxen: Fix link event handling. (bnc#873228)

- netxen: fix link notification order. (bnc#873228)

- nfsd: rename int access to int may_flags in nfsd_open().
(bnc#898554)

- nfsd: vfs_llseek() with 32 or 64 bit offsets (hashes).
(bnc#898554)

- ocfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in ocfs2_duplicate_clusters_by_page. (bnc#899843)

- powerpc: Add smp_mb() to arch_spin_is_locked() (bsc#893758).

- powerpc: Add smp_mb()s to arch_spin_unlock_wait() (bsc#893758).

- powerpc: Add support for the optimised lockref implementation (bsc#893758).

- powerpc: Implement arch_spin_is_locked() using arch_spin_value_unlocked() (bsc#893758).

- refresh patches.xen/xen-blkback-multi-page-ring (bnc#897708)).

- remove filesize checks for sync I/O journal commit.
(bnc#800255)

- resource: add __adjust_resource() for internal use.
(bnc#891790)

- resource: add release_mem_region_adjustable().
(bnc#891790)

- revert PM / Hibernate: Iterate over set bits instead of PFNs in swsusp_free(). (bnc#860441)

- rpm/mkspec: Generate specfiles according to Factory requirements.

- rpm/mkspec: Generate a per-architecture per-package
_constraints file

- sched: Fix unreleased llc_shared_mask bit during CPU hotplug. (bnc#891368)

- scsi_dh_alua: disable ALUA handling for non-disk devices. (bnc#876633)

- usb: Do not re-read descriptors for wired devices in usb_authorize_device(). (bnc#904358)

- usbback: Do not access request fields in shared ring more than once.

- usbhid: add another mouse that needs QUIRK_ALWAYS_POLL.
(bnc#888607)

- vfs,proc: guarantee unique inodes in /proc. (bnc#868049)

- x86, cpu hotplug: Fix stack frame warning incheck_irq_vectors_for_cpu_disable(). (bnc#887418)

- x86, ioremap: Speed up check for RAM pages (Boot time optimisations (bnc#895387)).

- x86: Add check for number of available vectors before CPU down. (bnc#887418)

- x86: optimize resource lookups for ioremap (Boot time optimisations (bnc#895387)).

- x86: use optimized ioresource lookup in ioremap function (Boot time optimisations (bnc#895387)).

- xfs: Do not free EFIs before the EFDs are committed (bsc#755743).

- xfs: Do not reference the EFI after it is freed (bsc#755743).

- xfs: fix cil push sequence after log recovery (bsc#755743).

- zcrypt: support for extended number of ap domains (bnc#894058, LTC#117041).

- zcrypt: toleration of new crypto adapter hardware (bnc#894058, LTC#117041).

Solution

Apply SAT patch number 10037 / 10040 as appropriate.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 80249

File Name: suse_11_kernel-141202.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/26/2014

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-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-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, 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

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/2/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4398, CVE-2013-2889, CVE-2013-2893, CVE-2013-2897, CVE-2013-2899, CVE-2013-7263, CVE-2014-3181, CVE-2014-3184, CVE-2014-3185, CVE-2014-3186, CVE-2014-3601, CVE-2014-3610, CVE-2014-3646, CVE-2014-3647, CVE-2014-3673, CVE-2014-4508, CVE-2014-4608, CVE-2014-7826, CVE-2014-7841, CVE-2014-8709, CVE-2014-8884

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