The previous update to linux failed to build for the armhf (ARM EABI hard-float) architecture. This update corrects that. For all other architectures, there is no need to upgrade or reboot again. For reference, the relevant part of the original advisory text follows.

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

CVE-2017-5715

Multiple researchers have discovered a vulnerability in various processors supporting speculative execution, enabling an attacker controlling an unprivileged process to read memory from arbitrary addresses, including from the kernel and all other processes running on the system.

This specific attack has been named Spectre variant 2 (branch target injection) and is mitigated for the x86 architecture (amd64 and i386) by using new microcoded features.

This mitigation requires an update to the processor's microcode, which is non-free. For recent Intel processors, this is included in the intel-microcode package from version 3.20180425.1~deb8u1. For other processors, it may be included in an update to the system BIOS or UEFI firmware, or in a later update to the amd64-microcode package.

This vulnerability was already mitigated for the x86 architecture by the 'retpoline' feature.

CVE-2017-5753

Further instances of code that was vulnerable to Spectre variant 1 (bounds-check bypass) have been mitigated.

CVE-2018-1066

Dan Aloni reported to Red Hat that the CIFS client implementation would dereference a NULL pointer if the server sent an invalid response during NTLMSSP setup negotiation. This could be used by a malicious server for denial of service.

The previously applied mitigation for this issue was not appropriate for Linux 3.16 and has been replaced by an alternate fix.

CVE-2018-1093

Wen Xu reported that a crafted ext4 filesystem image could trigger an out-of-bounds read in the ext4_valid_block_bitmap() function. A local user able to mount arbitrary filesystems could use this for denial of service.

CVE-2018-1130

The syzbot software found that the DCCP implementation of sendmsg() does not check the socket state, potentially leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local user could use this to cause a denial of service (crash). 

CVE-2018-3665

Multiple researchers have discovered that some Intel x86 processors can speculatively read floating-point and vector registers even when access to those registers is disabled. The Linux kernel's 'lazy FPU' feature relies on that access control to avoid saving and restoring those registers for tasks that do not use them, and was enabled by default on x86 processors that do not support the XSAVEOPT instruction.

If 'lazy FPU' is enabled on one of the affected processors, an attacker controlling an unprivileged process may be able to read sensitive information from other users' processes or the kernel. This specifically affects processors based on the 'Nehalem' and 'Westemere' core designs. This issue has been mitigated by disabling 'lazy FPU' by default on all x86 processors that support the FXSAVE and FXRSTOR instructions, which includes all processors known to be affected and most processors that perform speculative execution. It can also be mitigated by adding the kernel parameter: eagerfpu=on

CVE-2018-5814

Jakub Jirasek reported race conditions in the USB/IP host driver. A malicious client could use this to cause a denial of service (crash or memory corruption), and possibly to execute code, on a USB/IP server.

CVE-2018-9422

It was reported that the futex() system call could be used by an unprivileged user for privilege escalation.

CVE-2018-10853

Andy Lutomirski and Mika Penttil&auml; reported that KVM for x86 processors did not perform a necessary privilege check when emulating certain instructions. This could be used by an unprivileged user in a guest VM to escalate their privileges within the guest.

CVE-2018-10940

Dan Carpenter reported that the optical disc driver (cdrom) does not correctly validate the parameter to the CDROM_MEDIA_CHANGED ioctl. A user with access to a cdrom device could use this to cause a denial of service (crash).

CVE-2018-11506

Piotr Gabriel Kosinski and Daniel Shapira reported that the SCSI optical disc driver (sr) did not allocate a sufficiently large buffer for sense data. A user with access to a SCSI optical disc device that can produce more than 64 bytes of sense data could use this to cause a denial of service (crash or memory corruption), and possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2018-12233

Shankara Pailoor reported that a crafted JFS filesystem image could trigger a denial of service (memory corruption). This could possibly also be used for privilege escalation.

CVE-2018-1000204

The syzbot software found that the SCSI generic driver (sg) would in some circumstances allow reading data from uninitialised buffers, which could include sensitive information from the kernel or other tasks. However, only privileged users with the CAP_SYS_ADMIN or CAP_SYS_RAWIO capability were allowed to do this, so this has little or no security impact.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 3.16.57-1. This update additionally fixes Debian bug #898165, and includes many more bug fixes from stable update 3.16.57.

We recommend that you upgrade your linux packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - Array index error in the tcm_vhost_make_tpg function in     drivers/vhost/scsi.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0     might allow guest OS users to cause a denial of service     (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other     impact via a crafted VHOST_SCSI_SET_ENDPOINT ioctl     call. NOTE: the affected function was renamed to     vhost_scsi_make_tpg before the vulnerability was     announced.(CVE-2015-4036)

  - The ecryptfs_privileged_open function in     fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6.3     allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial     of service (stack memory consumption) via vectors     involving crafted mmap calls for /proc pathnames,     leading to recursive pagefault handling.(CVE-2016-1583)

  - It was found that SCSI driver in the Linux kernel can     improperly access userspace memory outside the provided     buffer. A local privileged attacker could potentially     use this flaw to expose information from the kernel     memory.(CVE-2017-13168)

  - The acpi_ds_create_operands() function in     drivers/acpi/acpica/dsutils.c in the Linux kernel     through 4.12.9 does not flush the operand cache and     causes a kernel stack dump, which allows local users to     obtain sensitive information from kernel memory and     bypass the KASLR protection mechanism (in the kernel     through 4.9) via a crafted ACPI table.(CVE-2017-13693)

  - The acpi_ps_complete_final_op() function in     drivers/acpi/acpica/psobject.c in the Linux kernel     through 4.12.9 does not flush the node and node_ext     caches and causes a kernel stack dump, which allows     local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel     memory and bypass the KASLR protection mechanism (in     the kernel through 4.9) via a crafted ACPI     table.(CVE-2017-13694)

  - The acpi_ns_evaluate() function in     drivers/acpi/acpica/nseval.c in the Linux kernel     through 4.12.9 does not flush the operand cache and     causes a kernel stack dump, which allows local users to     obtain sensitive information from kernel memory and     bypass the KASLR protection mechanism (in the kernel     through 4.9) via a crafted ACPI table.(CVE-2017-13695)

  - The XFS_IS_REALTIME_INODE macro in fs/xfs/xfs_linux.h     in the Linux kernel before 4.13.2 does not verify that     a filesystem has a realtime device, which allows local     users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer     dereference and OOPS) via vectors related to setting an     RHINHERIT flag on a directory.(CVE-2017-14340)

  - The xfs_bmap_extents_to_btree function in     fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c in the Linux kernel through     4.16.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service     (xfs_bmapi_write NULL pointer dereference) via a     crafted xfs image.(CVE-2018-10323)

  - A flaw was found in Linux kernel in the ext4 filesystem     code. A use-after-free is possible in     ext4_ext_remove_space() function when mounting and     operating a crafted ext4 image.(CVE-2018-10876)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel ext4 filesystem.
    An out-of-bound access is possible in the     ext4_ext_drop_refs() function when operating on a     crafted ext4 filesystem image.(CVE-2018-10877)

  - The pcpu_embed_first_chunk function in mm/percpu.c in     the Linux kernel through 4.14.14 allows local users to     obtain sensitive address information by reading dmesg     data from a(CVE-2018-5995)

  - Memory leak in the irda_bind function in     net/irda/af_irda.c and later in     drivers/staging/irda/net/af_irda.c in the Linux kernel     before 4.17 allows local users to cause a denial of     service (memory consumption) by repeatedly binding an     AF_IRDA socket.(CVE-2018-6554)

  - A NULL pointer dereference was found in the     net/rds/rdma.c __rds_rdma_map() function in the Linux     kernel before 4.14.7 allowing local attackers to cause     a system panic and a denial-of-service, related to     RDS_GET_MR and RDS_GET_MR_FOR_DEST.(CVE-2018-7492)

  - ** DISPUTED ** Race condition in the     store_int_with_restart() function in     arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c in the Linux kernel     through 4.15.7 allows local users to cause a denial of     service (panic) by leveraging root access to write to     the check_interval file in a     /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheck<cpu     number> directory. NOTE: a third party has indicated     that this report is not security     relevant.(CVE-2018-7995)

  - Non-optimized code for key handling of shared futexes     was found in the Linux kernel in the form of unbounded     contention time due to the page lock for real-time     users. Before the fix, the page lock was an     unnecessarily heavy lock for the futex path that     protected too much. After the fix, the page lock is     only required in a specific corner case.(CVE-2018-9422)

  - A memory leak in the ccp_run_sha_cmd() function in     drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-ops.c in the Linux kernel     through 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of     service (memory consumption), aka     CID-128c66429247.(CVE-2019-18808)

  - In the Linux kernel before 5.1, there is a memory leak     in __feat_register_sp() in net/dccp/feat.c, which may     cause denial of service, aka     CID-1d3ff0950e2b.(CVE-2019-20096)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before     5.4.7. The prb_calc_retire_blk_tmo() function in     net/packet/af_packet.c can result in a denial of     service (CPU consumption and soft lockup) in a certain     failure case involving TPACKET_V3, aka     CID-b43d1f9f7067.(CVE-2019-20812)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel     scsi driver. Product: Android. Versions: Android     kernel. Android ID A-65023233.(CVE-2017-13168)

  - Non-optimized code for key handling of shared futexes     was found in the Linux kernel in the form of unbounded     contention time due to the page lock for real-time     users. Before the fix, the page lock was an     unnecessarily heavy lock for the futex path that     protected too much. After the fix, the page lock is     only required in a specific corner case.(CVE-2018-9422)

  - A flaw in the load_elf_binary() function in the Linux     kernel allows a local attacker to leak the base address     of .text and stack sections for setuid binaries and     bypass ASLR because install_exec_creds() is called too     late in this function.(CVE-2019-11190)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel ext4 filesystem.
    An out-of-bound access is possible in the     ext4_ext_drop_refs() function when operating on a     crafted ext4 filesystem image.(CVE-2018-10877)

  - A vulnerability was found in polkit. When     authentication is performed by a non-root user to     perform an administrative task, the authentication is     temporarily cached in such a way that a local attacker     could impersonate the authorized process, thus gaining     access to elevated privileges.(CVE-2019-6133)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in the function     hso_probe() which reads if_num value from the USB     device (as an u8) and uses it without a length check to     index an array, resulting in an OOB memory read in     hso_probe() or hso_get_config_data(). An attacker with     a forged USB device and physical access to a system     (needed to connect such a device) can cause a system     crash and a denial of service.(CVE-2018-19985)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation     of logical link control and adaptation protocol     (L2CAP), part of the Bluetooth stack in the     l2cap_parse_conf_rsp and l2cap_parse_conf_req     functions. An attacker with physical access within the     range of standard Bluetooth transmission can create a     specially crafted packet. The response to this     specially crafted packet can contain part of the kernel     stack which can be used in a further     attack.(CVE-2019-3460)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernels implementation of     Logical link control and adaptation protocol (L2CAP),     part of the Bluetooth stack. An attacker with physical     access within the range of standard Bluetooth     transmission can create a specially crafted packet. The     response to this specially crafted packet can contain     part of the kernel stack which can be used in a further     attack.(CVE-2019-3459)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's NFS41+     subsystem. NFS41+ shares mounted in different network     namespaces at the same time can make bc_svc_process()     use wrong back-channel IDs and cause a use-after-free     vulnerability. Thus a malicious container user can     cause a host kernel memory corruption and a system     panic. Due to the nature of the flaw, privilege     escalation cannot be fully ruled out.(CVE-2018-16884)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's NFS41+     subsystem. NFS41+ shares mounted in different network     namespaces at the same time can make bc_svc_process()     use wrong back-channel IDs and cause a use-after-free     vulnerability. Thus a malicious container user can     cause a host kernel memory corruption and a system     panic. Due to the nature of the flaw, privilege     escalation cannot be fully ruled out.(CVE-2018-16884)

  - An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel     scsi driver. Product: Android. Versions: Android     kernel. Android ID A-65023233.(CVE-2017-13168)

  - A flaw in the load_elf_binary() function in the Linux     kernel allows a local attacker to leak the base address     of .text and stack sections for setuid binaries and     bypass ASLR because install_exec_creds() is called too     late in this function.(CVE-2019-11190)

  - The SCTP socket buffer used by a userspace application     is not accounted by the cgroups subsystem. An attacker     can use this flaw to cause a denial of service     attack.(CVE-2019-3874)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel ext4 filesystem.
    An out-of-bound access is possible in the     ext4_ext_drop_refs() function when operating on a     crafted ext4 filesystem image.(CVE-2018-10877)

  - Non-optimized code for key handling of shared futexes     was found in the Linux kernel in the form of unbounded     contention time due to the page lock for real-time     users. Before the fix, the page lock was an     unnecessarily heavy lock for the futex path that     protected too much. After the fix, the page lock is     only required in a specific corner case.(CVE-2018-9422)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in the     hid_debug_events_read() function in the     drivers/hid/hid-debug.c file. A lack of the certain     checks may allow a privileged user ('root') to achieve     an out-of-bounds write and thus receiving user space     buffer corruption.(CVE-2018-9516i1/4%0

  - A vulnerability was found in polkit. When     authentication is performed by a non-root user to     perform an administrative task, the authentication is     temporarily cached in such a way that a local attacker     could impersonate the authorized process, thus gaining     access to elevated privileges.(CVE-2019-6133)

  - A flaw was found in the implementation of the 'fill     buffer', a mechanism used by modern CPUs when a     cache-miss is made on L1 CPU cache. If an attacker can     generate a load operation that would create a page     fault, the execution will continue speculatively with     incorrect data from the fill buffer while the data is     fetched from higher level caches. This response time     can be measured to infer data in the fill buffer.
    (CVE-2018-12130)

  - Modern Intel microprocessors implement hardware-level     micro-optimizations to improve the performance of     writing data back to CPU caches. The write operation is     split into STA (STore Address) and STD (STore Data)     sub-operations. These sub-operations allow the     processor to hand-off address generation logic into     these sub-operations for optimized writes. Both of     these sub-operations write to a shared distributed     processor structure called the 'processor store     buffer'. As a result, an unprivileged attacker could     use this flaw to read private data resident within the     CPU's processor store buffer. (CVE-2018-12126)

  - Microprocessors use a aEUR~load portaEURtm subcomponent to     perform load operations from memory or IO. During a     load operation, the load port receives data from the     memory or IO subsystem and then provides the data to     the CPU registers and operations in the CPUaEURtms     pipelines. Stale load operations results are stored in     the 'load port' table until overwritten by newer     operations. Certain load-port operations triggered by     an attacker can be used to reveal data about previous     stale requests leaking data back to the attacker via a     timing side-channel. (CVE-2018-12127)

  - Uncacheable memory on some microprocessors utilizing     speculative execution may allow an authenticated user     to potentially enable information disclosure via a side     channel with local access. (CVE-2019-11091)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address security updates:

  - The imon_probe function in drivers/media/rc/imon.c in the Linux kernel through 4.13.11 allows local users     to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified     other impact via a crafted USB device. (CVE-2017-16537)

  - In the Linux kernel before 4.13.5, a local user could create keyrings for other users via keyctl commands,     setting unwanted defaults or causing a denial of service. (CVE-2017-18270)

  - The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.10.13 allows local users to cause a denial of service     (memory consumption) via a series of KEY_REQKEY_DEFL_THREAD_KEYRING keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring calls.
    (CVE-2017-7472)

  - In get_futex_key of futex.c, there is a use-after-free due to improper locking. This could lead to local     escalation of privilege with no additional privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for     exploitation. Product: Android Versions: Android kernel Android ID: A-74250718 References: Upstream     kernel. (CVE-2018-9422)

  - 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)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in versions before 5.9-rc6. When changing screen size, an out-of-     bounds memory write can occur leading to memory corruption or a denial of service. Due to the nature of     the flaw, privilege escalation cannot be fully ruled out. (CVE-2020-14390)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.3 when a webcam device exists. video_usercopy in     drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c has a memory leak for large arguments, aka CID-fb18802a338b.
    (CVE-2021-30002)

  - In the Linux kernel through 5.15.2, mwifiex_usb_recv in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/usb.c allows     an attacker (who can connect a crafted USB device) to cause a denial of service (skb_over_panic).
    (CVE-2021-43976)

  - In the IPv4 implementation in the Linux kernel before 5.12.4, net/ipv4/route.c has an information leak     because the hash table is very small. (CVE-2021-45486)

  - A vulnerability was found in linux kernel, where an information leak occurs via ext4_extent_header to     userspace. (CVE-2022-0850)

  - A use-after-free flaw was found in fs/ext4/namei.c:dx_insert_block() in the Linux kernel's filesystem sub-     component. This flaw allows a local attacker with a user privilege to cause a denial of service.
    (CVE-2022-1184)

  - Dm-verity is used for extending root-of-trust to root filesystems. LoadPin builds on this property to     restrict module/firmware loads to just the trusted root filesystem. Device-mapper table reloads currently     allow users with root privileges to switch out the target with an equivalent dm-linear target and bypass     verification till reboot. This allows root to bypass LoadPin and can be used to load untrusted and     unverified kernel modules and firmware, which implies arbitrary kernel execution and persistence for     peripherals that do not verify firmware updates. We recommend upgrading past commit     4caae58406f8ceb741603eee460d79bacca9b1b5 (CVE-2022-2503)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's driver for the ASIX AX88179_178A-based USB 2.0/3.0 Gigabit Ethernet     Devices. The vulnerability contains multiple out-of-bounds reads and possible out-of-bounds writes.
    (CVE-2022-2964)

  - A race condition was found in the Linux kernel's IP framework for transforming packets (XFRM subsystem)     when multiple calls to xfrm_probe_algs occurred simultaneously. This flaw could allow a local attacker to     potentially trigger an out-of-bounds write or leak kernel heap memory by performing an out-of-bounds read     and copying it into a socket. (CVE-2022-3028)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.18.14. xfrm_expand_policies in     net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c can cause a refcount to be dropped twice. (CVE-2022-36879)

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

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2022-9852 advisory.

    - media: imon: Fix null-ptr-deref in imon_probe (Arvind Yadav)  [Orabug: 31225377]  {CVE-2017-16537}
    - fbcon: remove soft scrollback code (Linus Torvalds)  [Orabug: 31914703]  {CVE-2020-14390}
    - inet: use bigger hash table for IP ID generation (Eric Dumazet)  [Orabug: 33778986]  {CVE-2021-45486}
    - media: v4l: ioctl: Fix memory leak in video_usercopy (Sakari Ailus)  [Orabug: 32759975]     {CVE-2021-30002}
    - futex: Remove requirement for lock_page() in get_futex_key() (Mel Gorman)  [Orabug: 29048998]     {CVE-2018-9422}
    - mwifiex: Fix skb_over_panic in mwifiex_usb_recv() (Zekun Shen)  [Orabug: 33784271]  {CVE-2021-43976}
    - af_key: Do not call xfrm_probe_algs in parallel (Herbert Xu)  [Orabug: 34566754]  {CVE-2022-3028}
    - ext4: fix kernel infoleak via ext4_extent_header (Anirudh Rayabharam)  [Orabug: 34579226]     {CVE-2022-0850}
    - net: usb: ax88179_178a: Fix out-of-bounds accesses in RX fixup (Jann Horn)  [Orabug: 34594265]     {CVE-2022-2964}
    - KEYS: fix keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring() to not leak thread keyrings (Eric Biggers)  [Orabug: 27902747]     {CVE-2017-7472}
    - KEYS: prevent creating a different user's keyrings (Eric Biggers)  [Orabug: 29013653]  {CVE-2017-18270}
    - scsi: sg: add sg_remove_request in sg_write (Wu Bo)  [Orabug: 31350699]  {CVE-2020-12770}
    - xfrm: xfrm_policy: fix a possible double xfrm_pols_put() in xfrm_bundle_lookup() (Hangyu Hua)  [Orabug:
    34503626]  {CVE-2022-36879}
    - ext4: verify dir block before splitting it (Jan Kara)  [Orabug: 34555416]  {CVE-2022-1184}

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
111082	Debian DLA-1422-2 : linux security update (Spectre)	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	7/16/2018	9/4/2024	high
141697	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.2 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2020-2222)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	10/21/2020	1/6/2021	high
124431	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1304)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	5/1/2019	5/30/2024	high
125513	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1586)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	5/29/2019	5/20/2024	high
166048	OracleVM 3.4 : kernel-uek (OVMSA-2022-0026)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	10/11/2022	10/12/2022	high
165663	Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2022-9852)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	10/5/2022	10/23/2024	high

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