Updated RDMA packages that fix multiple security issues, various bugs, and add an enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes a collection of InfiniBand and iWARP utilities, libraries and development packages for writing applications that use Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) technology.

A denial of service flaw was found in the way ibacm managed reference counts for multicast connections. An attacker could send specially crafted multicast packets that would cause the ibacm daemon to crash.
(CVE-2012-4517)

It was found that the ibacm daemon created some files with world-writable permissions. A local attacker could use this flaw to overwrite the contents of the ibacm.log or ibacm.port file, allowing them to mask certain actions from the log or cause ibacm to run on a non-default port. (CVE-2012-4518)

CVE-2012-4518 was discovered by Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team and Kurt Seifried of the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The InfiniBand/iWARP/RDMA stack components have been upgraded to more recent upstream versions.

This update also fixes the following bugs :

* Previously, the 'ibnodes -h' command did not show a proper usage message. With this update the problem is fixed and 'ibnodes -h' now shows the correct usage message. (BZ#818606)

* Previously, the ibv_devinfo utility erroneously showed iWARP cxgb3 hardware's physical state as invalid even when the device was working.
For iWARP hardware, the phys_state field has no meaning. This update patches the utility to not print out anything for this field when the hardware is iWARP hardware. (BZ#822781)

* Prior to the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3, the kernel created the InfiniBand device files in the wrong place and a udev rules file was used to force the devices to be created in the proper place. With the update to 6.3, the kernel was fixed to create the InfiniBand device files in the proper place, and so the udev rules file was removed as no longer being necessary. However, a bug in the kernel device creation meant that, although the devices were now being created in the right place, they had incorrect permissions.
Consequently, when users attempted to run an RDMA application as a non-root user, the application failed to get the necessary permissions to use the RDMA device and the application terminated. This update puts a new udev rules file in place. It no longer attempts to create the InfiniBand devices since they already exist, but it does correct the device permissions on the files. (BZ#834428)

* Previously, using the 'perfquery -C' command with a host name caused the perfquery utility to become unresponsive. The list of controllers to process was never cleared and the process looped infinitely on a single controller. A patch has been applied to make sure that in the case where the user passes in the -C option, the controller list is cleared out once that controller has been processed. As a result, perfquery now works as expected in the scenario described. (BZ#847129)

* The OpenSM init script did not handle the case where there were no configuration files under '/etc/rdma/opensm.conf.*'. With this update, the script as been patched and the InfiniBand Subnet Manager, OpenSM, now starts as expected in the scenario described. (BZ#862857)

This update also adds the following enhancement :

* This update provides an updated mlx4_ib Mellanox driver which includes Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) support. (BZ#869737)

All users of RDMA are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these issues and add this enhancement.

A denial of service flaw was found in the way ibacm managed reference counts for multicast connections. An attacker could send specially crafted multicast packets that would cause the ibacm daemon to crash.
(CVE-2012-4517)

It was found that the ibacm daemon created some files with world-writable permissions. A local attacker could use this flaw to overwrite the contents of the ibacm.log or ibacm.port file, allowing them to mask certain actions from the log or cause ibacm to run on a non-default port. (CVE-2012-4518)

The InfiniBand/iWARP/RDMA stack components have been upgraded to more recent upstream versions.

This update also fixes the following bugs :

  - Previously, the 'ibnodes -h' command did not show a     proper usage message. With this update the problem is     fixed and 'ibnodes -h' now shows the correct usage     message.

  - Previously, the ibv_devinfo utility erroneously showed     iWARP cxgb3 hardware's physical state as invalid even     when the device was working. For iWARP hardware, the     phys_state field has no meaning. This update patches the     utility to not print out anything for this field when     the hardware is iWARP hardware.

  - Prior to the release of Scientific Linux 6.3, the kernel     created the InfiniBand device files in the wrong place     and a udev rules file was used to force the devices to     be created in the proper place. With the update to 6.3,     the kernel was fixed to create the InfiniBand device     files in the proper place, and so the udev rules file     was removed as no longer being necessary. However, a bug     in the kernel device creation meant that, although the     devices were now being created in the right place, they     had incorrect permissions. Consequently, when users     attempted to run an RDMA application as a non-root user,     the application failed to get the necessary permissions     to use the RDMA device and the application terminated.
    This update puts a new udev rules file in place. It no     longer attempts to create the InfiniBand devices since     they already exist, but it does correct the device     permissions on the files.

  - Previously, using the 'perfquery -C' command with a host     name caused the perfquery utility to become     unresponsive. The list of controllers to process was     never cleared and the process looped infinitely on a     single controller. A patch has been applied to make sure     that in the case where the user passes in the -C option,     the controller list is cleared out once that controller     has been processed. As a result, perfquery now works as     expected in the scenario described.

  - The OpenSM init script did not handle the case where     there were no configuration files under     '/etc/rdma/opensm.conf.*'. With this update, the script     as been patched and the InfiniBand Subnet Manager,     OpenSM, now starts as expected in the scenario     described.

This update also adds the following enhancement :

  - This update provides an updated mlx4_ib Mellanox driver     which includes Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)     support.

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2013-0509 advisory.

    ibacm     [1.0.8-0.git7a3adb7]
    - Update to latest upstream via git repo
    - Resolves: bz866222, bz866223

    ibsim     [0.5-7]
    - Bump and rebuild against latest opensm
    - Related: bz756396

    ibutils     [1.5.7-7]
    - Bump and rebuild against latest opensm
    - Related: bz756396

    infiniband-diags     [1.5.12-5]
    - Bump and rebuild against latest opensm
    - Pick up fixes done for rhel5.9
    - Related: bz756396

    [1.5.12-4]
    - Update the all_hcas patch to resolve several problems
    - Give a simple help message to the ibnodes script
    - Resolves: bz818606, bz847129

    infinipath-psm     [3.0.1-115.1015_open.1]
    - New upstream releas       Resolves: rhbz818789

    libibmad     [1.3.9-1]
    - Update to latest upstream version (more SRIOV support)
    - Related: bz756396

    [1.3.8-1]
    - Update to latest upstream version (for FDR link speed support)
    - Related: bz750609

    [1.3.7-1]
    - Update to latest upstream version (1.3.4 -> 1.3.7)
    - Related: bz725016

    [1.3.4-1]
    - New upstream version

    [1.3.3-2]
    - ExcludeArch s390(x) as there's no hardware support there

    [1.3.3-1]
    - Update to latest upstream release

    [1.3.2-2]
    - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild

    [1.3.2-1]
    - Update to latest upstream version
    - Require the same version of libibumad as our version

    [1.3.1-1]
    - Update to latest upstream version

    [1.2.0-3]
    - Rebuilt against libtool 2.2

    [1.2.0-2]
    - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild

    [1.2.0-1]
    - Initial package for Fedora review process

    libibumad     [1.3.8-1]
    - Update to latest upstream release (more SRIOV support)
    - Related: bz756396

    [1.3.7-1]
    - Update to latest upstream version (1.3.4 -> 1.3.7)
    - Related: bz725016

    [1.3.4-1]
    - New upstream release

    [1.3.3-2]
    - ExcludeArch s390(x) as there is no hardware support there

    [1.3.3-1]
    - Update to latest upstream version

    [1.3.2-3]
    - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild

    [1.3.2-2]
    - Forgot to remove both instances of the libibcommon requires
    - Add build requires on glibc-static

    [1.3.2-1]
    - Update to latest upstream version
    - Remove requirement on libibcommon since that library is no longer needed
    - Fix a problem with man page listing

    [1.3.1-1]
    - Update to latest upstream version

    [1.2.0-3]
    - Rebuilt against libtool 2.2

    [1.2.0-2]
    - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild

    [1.2.0-1]
    - Initial package for Fedora review process

    libibverbs     [1.1.6-5]
    - Don't print link state on iWARP links as it's always invalid
    - Don't try to do ud transfers in excess of port MTU
    - Resolves: bz822781

    libmlx4     [1.0.4-1]
    - Update to latest upstream version
    - Related: bz756396

    librdmacm     [1.0.17-0.git4b5c1aa]
    - Pre-release version of 1.0.17
    - Resolves a CVE vulnerability between librdmacm and ibacm
    - Fixes various minor bugs in sample programs
    - Resolves: bz866221, bz816074

    opensm     [3.3.15-1]
    - Update to latest upstream source (adds more SRIOV support)
    - Fix init script when no config files are present
    - Related: bz756396

    [3.3.13-1]
    - Update to latest upstream release
    - Add patch to support specifying subnet_prefix on command lien
    - Update init script to pass unique subnet_prefix's when using the GUID       method of starting multiple instances
    - Fix up LSB init script headers
    - Resolves: bz754196

    [3.3.12-1]
    - Generate the opensm.conf file instead of shipping a static one as a source
    - Update to latest upstream release (FDR link speed support)
    - Resolves: bz750609

    [3.3.9-1]
    - Update to latest upstream version (3.3.5 -> 3.3.9)
    - Add /etc/sysconfig/opensm for use by opensm init script
    - Enable the ability to start more than one instance of opensm for multiple       fabric support
    - Enable the ability to start opensm with a priority other than default for       support of backup opensm instances
    - Related: bz725016
    - Resolves: bz633392

    [3.3.5-1]
    - Update to latest upstream release.  We need various defines in ib_types.h       for the latest ibutils package to build properly, and the latest ibutils       package is needed because we found licensing problems in the older       tarballs during review.

    [3.3.3-2]
    - ExcludeArch s390(x) as there's no hardware support there

    [3.3.3-1]
    - Update to latest upstream release
    - Minor tweaks to init script for LSB compliance

    [3.3.2-2]
    - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild

    [3.3.2-1]
    - Update to latest upstream version

    [3.3.1-1]
    - Update to latest upstream version

    [3.2.1-3]
    - fix bare elifs to rebuild

    [3.2.1-2]
    - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild

    [3.2.1-1]
    - Initial package for Fedora review process

    rdma     [3.6-1.0.2]
    - Add SDP to rdma.conf and rdma.init

    [3.6-1.0.1]
    - Support Mellanox OFED 1.5.5

    [3.6-1]
    - Bump version to match final kernel submission

    [3.6-0.rc5.1]
    - Bump version to match kernel update submitted for rhel6.4

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
65143	CentOS 6 : ibacm / ibsim / ibutils / infiniband-diags / infinipath-psm / libibmad / libibumad / etc (CESA-2013:0509)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	3/10/2013	1/4/2021	medium
65014	Scientific Linux Security Update : rdma on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20130221)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	3/5/2013	1/14/2021	medium
64759	RHEL 6 : rdma (RHSA-2013:0509)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	2/21/2013	1/14/2021	medium
68748	Oracle Linux 6 : rdma (ELSA-2013-0509)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	7/12/2013	10/22/2024	high

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