Oval Definition:oval:org.opensuse.security:def:81843
Revision Date:2019-11-20Version:1
Title:Security update for the Linux Kernel (Important)
Description:





The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.



The following security bugs were fixed:

- CVE-2018-12207: Untrusted virtual machines on Intel CPUs could exploit a race condition in the Instruction Fetch Unit of the Intel CPU to cause a Machine Exception during Page Size Change, causing the CPU core to be non-functional.

The Linux Kernel kvm hypervisor was adjusted to avoid page size changes in executable pages by splitting / merging huge pages into small pages as needed. More information can be found on https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7023735

- CVE-2019-16995: Fix a memory leak in hsr_dev_finalize() if hsr_add_port failed to add a port, which may have caused denial of service (bsc#1152685).

- CVE-2019-11135: Aborting an asynchronous TSX operation on Intel CPUs with Transactional Memory support could be used to facilitate sidechannel information leaks out of microarchitectural buffers, similar to the previously described 'Microarchitectural Data Sampling' attack.

The Linux kernel was supplemented with the option to disable TSX operation altogether (requiring CPU Microcode updates on older systems) and better flushing of microarchitectural buffers (VERW).

The set of options available is described in our TID at https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7024251

- CVE-2019-16233: drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c did not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. (bsc#1150457).

- CVE-2019-10220: Added sanity checks on the pathnames passed to the user space. (bsc#1144903).

- CVE-2019-17666: rtlwifi: Fix potential overflow in P2P code (bsc#1154372).

- CVE-2019-17133: cfg80211 wireless extension did not reject a long SSID IE, leading to a Buffer Overflow (bsc#1153158).

- CVE-2019-16232: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference in the Marwell libertas driver (bsc#1150465).

- CVE-2019-16234: iwlwifi pcie driver did not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. (bsc#1150452).

- CVE-2019-17055: The AF_ISDN network module in the Linux kernel did not enforce CAP_NET_RAW, which meant that unprivileged users could create a raw socket (bnc#1152782).

- CVE-2019-17056: The AF_NFC network module did not enforce CAP_NET_RAW, which meant that unprivileged users could create a raw socket (bsc#1152788).

- CVE-2019-16413: The 9p filesystem did not protect i_size_write() properly, which caused an i_size_read() infinite loop and denial of service on SMP systems (bnc#1151347).

- CVE-2019-15902: A backporting issue was discovered that re-introduced the Spectre vulnerability it had aimed to eliminate. This occurred because the backport process depends on cherry picking specific commits, and because two (correctly ordered) code lines were swapped (bnc#1149376).

- CVE-2019-15291: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference issue that could be caused by a malicious USB device (bnc#1146519).

- CVE-2019-15807: Fixed a memory leak in the SCSI module that could be abused to cause denial of service (bnc#1148938).

- CVE-2019-13272: Fixed a mishandled the recording of the credentials of a process that wants to create a ptrace relationship, which allowed local users to obtain root access by leveraging certain scenarios with a parent-child process relationship, where a parent drops privileges and calls execve (potentially allowing control by an attacker). (bnc#1140671).

- CVE-2019-14821: An out-of-bounds access issue was fixed in the kernel's kvm hypervisor. An unprivileged host user or process with access to '/dev/kvm' device could use this flaw to crash the host kernel, resulting in a denial of service or potentially escalating privileges on the system (bnc#1151350).

- CVE-2019-15505: An out-of-bounds issue had been fixed that could be caused by crafted USB device traffic (bnc#1147122).

- CVE-2017-18595: A double free in allocate_trace_buffer was fixed (bnc#1149555).

- CVE-2019-14835: A buffer overflow flaw was found in the kernel's vhost functionality that translates virtqueue buffers to IOVs. A privileged guest user able to pass descriptors with invalid length to the host could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the host (bnc#1150112).

- CVE-2019-15216: A NULL pointer dereference was fixed that could be malicious USB device (bnc#1146361).

- CVE-2019-15924: A a NULL pointer dereference has been fixed in the drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k module (bnc#1149612).

- CVE-2019-9456: An out-of-bounds write in the USB monitor driver has been fixed. This issue could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. (bnc#1150025).

- CVE-2019-15926: An out-of-bounds access was fixed in the drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl module. (bnc#1149527).

- CVE-2019-15927: An out-of-bounds access was fixed in the sound/usb/mixer module (bnc#1149522).

- CVE-2019-15666: There was an out-of-bounds array access in the net/xfrm module that could cause denial of service (bnc#1148394).

- CVE-2019-15219: A NULL pointer dereference was fixed that could be abused by a malicious USB device (bnc#1146519 1146524).

- CVE-2019-15220: A use-after-free issue was fixed that could be caused by a malicious USB device (bnc#1146519 1146526).

- CVE-2019-15221: A NULL pointer dereference was fixed that could be caused by a malicious USB device (bnc#1146519 1146529).

- CVE-2019-14814: A heap-based buffer overflow was fixed in the marvell wifi chip driver. That issue allowed local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code (bnc#1146512).

- CVE-2019-14815: A missing length check while parsing WMM IEs was fixed (bsc#1146512, bsc#1146514, bsc#1146516).

- CVE-2019-14816: A heap-based buffer overflow in the marvell wifi chip driver was fixed. Local users would have abused this issue to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code (bnc#1146516).

- CVE-2017-18509: An issue in net/ipv6 as fixed. By setting a specific socket option, an attacker could control a pointer in kernel land and cause an inet_csk_listen_stop general protection fault, or potentially execute arbitrary code under certain circumstances. The issue can be triggered as root (e.g., inside a default LXC container or with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability) or after namespace unsharing. (bnc#1145477)

- CVE-2019-9506: The Bluetooth BR/EDR specification used to permit sufficiently low encryption key length and did not prevent an attacker from influencing the key length negotiation. This allowed practical brute-force attacks (aka 'KNOB') that could decrypt traffic and inject arbitrary ciphertext without the victim noticing (bnc#1137865).

- CVE-2019-15098: A NULL pointer dereference in drivers/net/wireless/ath was fixed (bnc#1146378).

- CVE-2019-15290: A NULL pointer dereference in ath6kl_usb_alloc_urb_from_pipe was fixed (bsc#1146378).

- CVE-2019-15212: A double-free issue was fixed in drivers/usb driver (bnc#1146391).

- CVE-2016-10906: A use-after-free issue was fixed in drivers/net/ethernet/arc (bnc#1146584).

- CVE-2019-15211: A use-after-free issue caused by a malicious USB device was fixed in the drivers/media/v4l2-core driver (bnc#1146519).

- CVE-2019-15217: A a NULL pointer dereference issue caused by a malicious USB device was fixed in the drivers/media/usb/zr364xx driver (bnc#1146519).

- CVE-2019-15214: An a use-after-free issue in the sound subsystem was fixed (bnc#1146519).

- CVE-2019-15218: A NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device was fixed in the drivers/media/usb/siano driver (bnc#1146413).

- CVE-2019-15215: A use-after-free issue caused by a malicious USB device was fixed in the drivers/media/usb/cpia2 driver (bnc#1146425).

- CVE-2018-20976: A use-after-free issue was fixed in the fs/xfs driver (bnc#1146285).

- CVE-2019-0154: An unprotected read access to i915 registers has been fixed that could have been abused to facilitate a local denial-of-service attack. (bsc#1135966)

- CVE-2019-0155: A privilege escalation vulnerability has been fixed in the i915 module that allowed batch buffers from user mode to gain super user privileges. (bsc#1135967)

- CVE-2019-16231: The fjes driver did not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. (bnc#1150466)

- CVE-2019-18805: Fix signed integer overflow in tcp_ack_update_rtt() that could have lead to a denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact (bsc#1156187)

- CVE-2019-18680: A NULL pointer dereference in rds_tcp_kill_sock() could cause denial of service (bnc#1155898)

The following non-security bugs were fixed:

- cpu/speculation: Uninline and export CPU mitigations helpers (bnc#1117665). - documentation: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT documentation (bnc#1117665). - ib/core: Add mitigation for Spectre V1 (bsc#1155671) - ib/core: array_index_nospec: Sanitize speculative array (bsc#1155671) - ipv6: Update ipv6 defrag code (add bsc#1141054). - ksm: cleanup stable_node chain collapse case (bnc#1144338). - ksm: fix use after free with merge_across_nodes = 0 (bnc#1144338). - ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit (bnc#1144338). - ksm: optimize refile of stable_node_dup at the head of the chain (bnc#1144338). - ksm: swap the two output parameters of chain/chain_prune (bnc#1144338). - kvm kABI Fix for NX patches (bsc#1117665). - kvm: Convert kvm_lock to a mutex (bsc#1117665). - kvm: MMU: drop vcpu param in gpte_access (bsc#1117665). - kvm: MMU: introduce kvm_mmu_gfn_{allow,disallow}_lpage (bsc#1117665). - kvm: MMU: rename has_wrprotected_page to mmu_gfn_lpage_is_disallowed (bsc#1117665). - kvm: vmx, svm: always run with EFER.NXE=1 when shadow paging is active (bsc#1117665). - kvm: x86, powerpc: do not allow clearing largepages debugfs entry (bsc#1117665). - kvm: x86: Do not release the page inside mmu_set_spte() (bsc#1117665). - kvm: x86: MMU: Consolidate quickly_check_mmio_pf() and is_mmio_page_fault() (bsc#1117665). - kvm: x86: MMU: Encapsulate the type of rmap-chain head in a new struct (bsc#1117665). - kvm: x86: MMU: Move handle_mmio_page_fault() call to kvm_mmu_page_fault() (bsc#1117665). - kvm: x86: MMU: Move initialization of parent_ptes out from kvm_mmu_alloc_page() (bsc#1117665). - kvm: x86: MMU: Move parent_pte handling from kvm_mmu_get_page() to link_shadow_page() (bsc#1117665). - kvm: x86: MMU: Remove unused parameter parent_pte from kvm_mmu_get_page() (bsc#1117665). - kvm: x86: MMU: always set accessed bit in shadow PTEs (bsc#1117665). - kvm: x86: add tracepoints around __direct_map and FNAME(fetch) (bsc#1117665). - kvm: x86: adjust kvm_mmu_page member to save 8 bytes (bsc#1117665). - kvm: x86: change kvm_mmu_page_get_gfn BUG_ON to WARN_ON (bsc#1117665). - kvm: x86: extend usage of RET_MMIO_PF_* constants (bsc#1117665). - kvm: x86: make FNAME(fetch) and __direct_map more similar (bsc#1117665). - kvm: x86: mmu: Apply global mitigations knob to ITLB_MULTIHIT (bnc#1117665). - kvm: x86: remove now unneeded hugepage gfn adjustment (bsc#1117665). - kvm: x86: simplify ept_misconfig (bsc#1117665). - media: smsusb: better handle optional alignment (bsc#1146413). - mm: use upstream patch for bsc#1106913 - scsi: scsi_transport_fc: Drop double list_del() (bsc#1084878) - x86/bugs: correctly force-disable IBRS on !SKL systems (bsc#1068032, bsc#1092497). - x86/cpu: Add Atom Tremont (Jacobsville) (bsc#1117665). - x86/headers: Do not include asm/processor.h in asm/atomic.h (bsc#1150223). - x86/mitigations: Backport the STIBP pile See bsc#1139550 - xen-blkfront: avoid ENOMEM in blkif_recover after migration (bsc#1149849).
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Status:Reference(s):1068032
1084878
1092497
1106913
1117665
1135966
1135967
1137865
1139550
1140671
1141054
1144338
1144903
1145477
1146285
1146361
1146378
1146391
1146413
1146425
1146512
1146514
1146516
1146519
1146584
1147122
1148394
1148938
1149376
1149522
1149527
1149555
1149612
1149849
1150025
1150112
1150223
1150452
1150457
1150465
1150466
1151347
1151350
1152685
1152782
1152788
1153158
1154372
1155671
1155898
1156187
CVE-2016-10906
CVE-2017-18509
CVE-2017-18595
CVE-2018-12207
CVE-2018-20976
CVE-2019-0154
CVE-2019-0155
CVE-2019-10220
CVE-2019-11135
CVE-2019-13272
CVE-2019-14814
CVE-2019-14815
CVE-2019-14816
CVE-2019-14821
CVE-2019-14835
CVE-2019-15098
CVE-2019-15211
CVE-2019-15212
CVE-2019-15214
CVE-2019-15215
CVE-2019-15216
CVE-2019-15217
CVE-2019-15218
CVE-2019-15219
CVE-2019-15220
CVE-2019-15221
CVE-2019-15290
CVE-2019-15291
CVE-2019-15505
CVE-2019-15666
CVE-2019-15807
CVE-2019-15902
CVE-2019-15924
CVE-2019-15926
CVE-2019-15927
CVE-2019-16231
CVE-2019-16232
CVE-2019-16233
CVE-2019-16234
CVE-2019-16413
CVE-2019-16995
CVE-2019-17055
CVE-2019-17056
CVE-2019-17133
CVE-2019-17666
CVE-2019-18680
CVE-2019-18805
CVE-2019-9456
CVE-2019-9506
SUSE-SU-2019:2984-1
Platform(s):SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS is installed
  • AND Package Information
  • kernel-default-4.4.121-92.125.1 is installed
  • OR kernel-default-base-4.4.121-92.125.1 is installed
  • OR kernel-default-devel-4.4.121-92.125.1 is installed
  • OR kernel-default-man-4.4.121-92.125.1 is installed
  • OR kernel-devel-4.4.121-92.125.1 is installed
  • OR kernel-macros-4.4.121-92.125.1 is installed
  • OR kernel-source-4.4.121-92.125.1 is installed
  • OR kernel-syms-4.4.121-92.125.1 is installed
  • OR kgraft-patch-4_4_121-92_125-default-1-3.5.1 is installed
  • BACK