The kvm_vm_ioctl_assign_device function in virt/kvm/assigned-dev.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.1.10 does not verify permission to access PCI configuration space and BAR resources, which allows host OS users to assign PCI devices and cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via a KVM_ASSIGN_PCI_DEVICE operation.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - The kvm_vm_ioctl_assign_device function in virt/kvm/assigned-dev.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux     kernel before 3.1.10 does not verify permission to access PCI configuration space and BAR resources, which     allows host OS users to assign PCI devices and cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via a     KVM_ASSIGN_PCI_DEVICE operation. (CVE-2011-4347)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

An updated rhev-hypervisor5 package that fixes several security issues and various bugs is now available.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important 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.

The rhev-hypervisor5 package provides a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor ISO disk image. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is a dedicated Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor. It includes everything necessary to run and manage virtual machines: A subset of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating environment and the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Agent.

Note: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is only available for the Intel 64 and AMD64 architectures with virtualization extensions.

A heap overflow flaw was found in the way QEMU-KVM emulated the e1000 network interface card. A privileged guest user in a virtual machine whose network interface is configured to use the e1000 emulated driver could use this flaw to crash the host or, possibly, escalate their privileges on the host. (CVE-2012-0029)

A divide-by-zero flaw was found in the Linux kernel's igmp_heard_query() function. An attacker able to send certain IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) packets to a target system could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-0207)

A double free flaw was discovered in the policy checking code in OpenSSL. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash an application that uses OpenSSL by providing an X.509 certificate that has specially crafted policy extension data. (CVE-2011-4109)

An information leak flaw was found in the SSL 3.0 protocol implementation in OpenSSL. Incorrect initialization of SSL record padding bytes could cause an SSL client or server to send a limited amount of possibly sensitive data to its SSL peer via the encrypted connection. (CVE-2011-4576)

It was discovered that OpenSSL did not limit the number of TLS/SSL handshake restarts required to support Server Gated Cryptography. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make a TLS/SSL server using OpenSSL consume an excessive amount of CPU by continuously restarting the handshake. (CVE-2011-4619)

Red Hat would like to thank Nicolae Mogoreanu for reporting CVE-2012-0029, and Simon McVittie for reporting CVE-2012-0207.

This updated package provides updated components that include fixes for various security issues. These issues have no security impact on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor itself, however. The security fixes included in this update address the following CVE numbers :

CVE-2006-1168 and CVE-2011-2716 (busybox issues)

CVE-2009-5029, CVE-2009-5064, CVE-2010-0830 and CVE-2011-1089 (glibc issues)

CVE-2011-1083, CVE-2011-3638, CVE-2011-4086, CVE-2011-4127 and CVE-2012-0028 (kernel issues)

CVE-2011-1526 (krb5 issue)

CVE-2011-4347 (kvm issue)

CVE-2010-4008, CVE-2011-0216, CVE-2011-2834, CVE-2011-3905, CVE-2011-3919 and CVE-2011-1944 (libxml2 issues)

CVE-2011-1749 (nfs-utils issue)

CVE-2011-4108 (openssl issue)

CVE-2011-0010 (sudo issue)

CVE-2011-1675 and CVE-2011-1677 (util-linux issues)

CVE-2010-0424 (vixie-cron issue)

This updated rhev-hypervisor5 package fixes various bugs.
Documentation of these changes will be available shortly in the Technical Notes document :

https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/ Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization_for_Servers/2.2/html/Technical_Notes / index.html

Users of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these issues.

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's XFS file system implementation handled links with overly long path names.
A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges by mounting a specially crafted disk. (CVE-2011-4077 , Moderate)

Flaws in ghash_update() and ghash_final() could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4081 , Moderate)

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Journaling Block Device (JBD).
A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system by mounting a specially crafted ext3 or ext4 disk. (CVE-2011-4132 , Moderate)

It was found that the kvm_vm_ioctl_assign_device() function in the KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) subsystem of a Linux kernel did not check if the user requesting device assignment was privileged or not.
A local, unprivileged user on the host could assign unused PCI devices, or even devices that were in use and whose resources were not properly claimed by the respective drivers, which could result in the host crashing. (CVE-2011-4347 , Moderate)

Two flaws were found in the way the Linux kernel's __sys_sendmsg() function, when invoked via the sendmmsg() system call, accessed user-space memory. A local, unprivileged user could use these flaws to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4594 , Moderate)

A previous update introduced an integer overflow flaw in the Linux kernel. On PowerPC systems, a local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4611 , Moderate)

A flaw was found in the way the KVM subsystem of a Linux kernel handled PIT (Programmable Interval Timer) IRQs (interrupt requests) when there was no virtual interrupt controller set up. A local, unprivileged user on the host could force this situation to occur, resulting in the host crashing. (CVE-2011-4622 , Moderate)

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's XFS file system implementation handled on-disk Access Control Lists (ACLs). A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges by mounting a specially crafted disk.
(CVE-2012-0038 , Moderate)

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor implementation emulated the syscall instruction for 32-bit guests. An unprivileged guest user could trigger this flaw to crash the guest.
(CVE-2012-0045 , Moderate)

A divide-by-zero flaw was found in the Linux kernel's igmp_heard_query() function. An attacker able to send certain IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) packets to a target system could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-0207 , Moderate)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2012-2003 advisory.

    - [fs] xfs: Fix possible memory corruption in xfs_readlink (Carlos Maiolino) {CVE-2011-4077}
    - crypto: ghash - Avoid null pointer dereference if no key is set (Nick Bowler) {CVE-2011-4081}
    - jbd/jbd2: validate sb->s_first in journal_get_superblock() (Eryu Guan) {CVE-2011-4132}
    - KVM: Device assignment permission checks (Joe Jin) {CVE-2011-4347}
    - KVM: x86: Prevent starting PIT timers in the absence of irqchip support (Jan Kiszka) {CVE-2011-4622}
    - xfs: validate acl count (Joe Jin) {CVE-2012-0038}
    - KVM: x86: fix missing checks in syscall emulation (Joe Jin) {CVE-2012-0045}
    - KVM: x86: extend 'struct x86_emulate_ops' with 'get_cpuid' (Joe Jin) {CVE-2012-0045}
    - igmp: Avoid zero delay when receiving odd mixture of IGMP queries (Ben Hutchings) {CVE-2012-0207}

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.

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2012-0350 advisory.

    - [fs] xfs: Fix missing xfs_iunlock() on error recovery path in xfs_readlink() (Carlos Maiolino) [749161     694702] {CVE-2011-4077}
    - [fs] xfs: Fix memory corruption in xfs_readlink (Carlos Maiolino) [749161 694702] {CVE-2011-4077}
    - [net] igmp: Avoid zero delay when receiving odd mixture of IGMP queries (Jiri Pirko) [772870 772871]     {CVE-2012-0207}
    - [fs] xfs: validate acl count (Eric Sandeen) [773282 773283] {CVE-2012-0038}
    - [virt] kvm: x86: fix missing checks in syscall emulation (Marcelo Tosatti) [773390 773391]     {CVE-2012-0045}
    - [virt] kvm: x86: extend 'struct x86_emulate_ops' with 'get_cpuid' (Marcelo Tosatti) [773390 773391]     {CVE-2012-0045}
    - [kernel] crypto: ghash - Avoid null pointer dereference if no key is set (Jiri Benc) [749481 749482]     {CVE-2011-4081}
    - [fs] jbd2: validate sb->s_first in journal_get_superblock() (Eryu Guan) [753344 693981] {CVE-2011-4132}
    - [net] fix unsafe pointer access in sendmmsg (Jiri Benc) [761668 760798] {CVE-2011-4594}
    - [perf] powerpc: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing (Steve Best) [767917 755737]     {CVE-2011-4611}
    - [virt] x86: Prevent starting PIT timers in the absence of irqchip support (Marcelo Tosatti) [769634     769550] {CVE-2011-4622}
    - [virt] KVM: Device assignment permission checks (Alex Williamson) [756092 756093] {CVE-2011-4347}
    - [virt] KVM: Remove ability to assign a device without iommu support (Alex Williamson) [756092 756093]     {CVE-2011-4347}

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.

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2012-0149 advisory.

    - CVE: CVE-2011-4622
    - Resolves: bz#770101       (CVE-2011-4622 kernel: kvm: pit timer with no irqchip crashes the system [rhel-5.8])
    - CVE: CVE-2012-0029
    - Resolves: bz#772080       (EMBARGOED CVE-2012-0029 qemu-kvm: e1000: process_tx_desc legacy mode packets heap overflow [rhel-5.8])
    - Resolves: bz#770095       (CVE-2011-4347 kernel: kvm: device assignment DoS [rhel-5.8])

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

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:1042 advisory.

    The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux     operating system.

    This update fixes the following security issues:

    * A local, unprivileged user could use an integer overflow flaw in     drm_mode_dirtyfb_ioctl() to cause a denial of service or escalate their     privileges. (CVE-2012-0044, Important)

    * It was found that the kvm_vm_ioctl_assign_device() function in the KVM     (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) subsystem of a Linux kernel did not check if     the user requesting device assignment was privileged or not. A local,     unprivileged user on the host could assign unused PCI devices, or even     devices that were in use and whose resources were not properly claimed by     the respective drivers, which could result in the host crashing.
    (CVE-2011-4347, Moderate)

    * A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's XFS file system     implementation handled on-disk Access Control Lists (ACLs). A local,     unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service or     escalate their privileges by mounting a specially-crafted disk.
    (CVE-2012-0038, Moderate)

    * It was found that the Linux kernel's register set (regset) common     infrastructure implementation did not check if the required get and set     handlers were initialized. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw     to cause a denial of service by performing a register set operation with a     ptrace() PTRACE_SETREGSET or PTRACE_GETREGSET request. (CVE-2012-1097,     Moderate)

    * A race condition was found in the Linux kernel's memory management     subsystem in the way pmd_none_or_clear_bad(), when called with mmap_sem in     read mode, and Transparent Huge Pages (THP) page faults interacted. A     privileged user in a KVM guest with the ballooning functionality enabled     could potentially use this flaw to crash the host. A local, unprivileged     user could use this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2012-1179, Moderate)

    Red Hat would like to thank Chen Haogang for reporting CVE-2012-0044; Sasha     Levin for reporting CVE-2011-4347; Wang Xi for reporting CVE-2012-0038; and     H. Peter Anvin for reporting CVE-2012-1097.

    This update also fixes the following bugs:

    * When a RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) adapter with active RoCE     communications was taken down suddenly (either by adapter failure or the     intentional shutdown of the interface), the ongoing RoCE communications     could cause the kernel to panic and render the machine unusable. A patch     has been provided to protect the kernel in this situation and to pass an     error up to the application still using the interface after it has been     taken down instead. (BZ#799944)

    * The fix for Red Hat Bugzilla bug 713494, released via RHSA-2011:0928,     introduced a regression. Attempting to change the state of certain     features, such as GRO (Generic Receive Offload) or TSO (TCP segment     offloading), for a 10 Gigabit Ethernet card that is being used in a     virtual LAN (VLAN) resulted in a kernel panic. (BZ#816974)

    * If a new file was created on a Network File System version 4 (NFSv4)     share, the ownership was set to nfsnobody (-2) until it was possible to     upcall to the idmapper. As a consequence, subsequent file system operations     could incorrectly use -2 for the user and group IDs for the given file,     causing certain operations to fail. In reported cases, this issue also     caused Viminfo file is not writable errors for users running Vim with     files on an NFSv4 share. (BZ#820960)

    Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported     patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this     update to take effect.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0149 advisory.

  - kernel: kvm: device assignment DoS (CVE-2011-4347)

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

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

This update fixes the following security issues :

  - A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux     kernel's XFS file system implementation handled links     with overly long path names. A local, unprivileged user     could use this flaw to cause a denial of service or     escalate their privileges by mounting a specially     crafted disk. (CVE-2011-4077, Moderate)

  - Flaws in ghash_update() and ghash_final() could allow a     local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service.
    (CVE-2011-4081, Moderate)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Journaling Block     Device (JBD). A local, unprivileged user could use this     flaw to crash the system by mounting a specially crafted     ext3 or ext4 disk. (CVE-2011-4132, Moderate)

  - It was found that the kvm_vm_ioctl_assign_device()     function in the KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)     subsystem of a Linux kernel did not check if the user     requesting device assignment was privileged or not. A     local, unprivileged user on the host could assign unused     PCI devices, or even devices that were in use and whose     resources were not properly claimed by the respective     drivers, which could result in the host crashing.
    (CVE-2011-4347, Moderate)

  - Two flaws were found in the way the Linux kernel's
    __sys_sendmsg() function, when invoked via the     sendmmsg() system call, accessed user-space memory. A     local, unprivileged user could use these flaws to cause     a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4594, Moderate)

  - A flaw was found in the way the KVM subsystem of a Linux     kernel handled PIT (Programmable Interval Timer) IRQs     (interrupt requests) when there was no virtual interrupt     controller set up. A local, unprivileged user on the     host could force this situation to occur, resulting in     the host crashing. (CVE-2011-4622, Moderate)

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's XFS file     system implementation handled on-disk Access Control     Lists (ACLs). A local, unprivileged user could use this     flaw to cause a denial of service or escalate their     privileges by mounting a specially crafted disk.
    (CVE-2012-0038, Moderate)

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM     hypervisor implementation emulated the syscall     instruction for 32-bit guests. An unprivileged guest     user could trigger this flaw to crash the guest.
    (CVE-2012-0045, Moderate)

  - A divide-by-zero flaw was found in the Linux kernel's     igmp_heard_query() function. An attacker able to send     certain IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol)     packets to a target system could use this flaw to cause     a denial of service. (CVE-2012-0207, Moderate)

Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. KVM is a Linux kernel module built for the standard Scientific Linux kernel.

It was found that the kvm_vm_ioctl_assign_device() function in the KVM subsystem of a Linux kernel did not check if the user requesting device assignment was privileged or not. A member of the kvm group on the host could assign unused PCI devices, or even devices that were in use and whose resources were not properly claimed by the respective drivers, which could result in the host crashing. (CVE-2011-4347)

All KVM users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

A flaw was found in the Linux's kernels ext4 file system when mounted with a journal. A local, unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4086)

Sasha Levin discovered a flaw in the permission checking for device assignments requested via the kvm ioctl in the Linux kernel. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system causing a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4347)

Stephan Barwolf discovered a flaw in the KVM (kernel-based virtual machine) subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local unprivileged user can crash use this flaw to crash VMs causing a deny of service.
(CVE-2012-0045)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's cifs file system. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to crash the system leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2012-1090)

H. Peter Anvin reported a flaw in the Linux kernel that could crash the system. A local user could exploit this flaw to crash the system.
(CVE-2012-1097)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's cgroups subset. A local attacker could use this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2012-1146)

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 file system when mounting a corrupt filesystem. A user-assisted remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-2100)

Tetsuo Handa reported a flaw in the OOM (out of memory) killer of the Linux kernel. A local unprivileged user can exploit this flaw to cause system unstability and denial of services. (CVE-2012-4398).

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

A flaw was found in the Linux's kernels ext4 file system when mounted with a journal. A local, unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4086)

Sasha Levin discovered a flaw in the permission checking for device assignments requested via the kvm ioctl in the Linux kernel. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system causing a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4347)

Stephan Barwolf discovered a flaw in the KVM (kernel-based virtual machine) subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local unprivileged user can crash use this flaw to crash VMs causing a deny of service.
(CVE-2012-0045)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's cifs file system. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to crash the system leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2012-1090)

H. Peter Anvin reported a flaw in the Linux kernel that could crash the system. A local user could exploit this flaw to crash the system.
(CVE-2012-1097)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's cgroups subset. A local attacker could use this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2012-1146)

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handling of paged memory. A local unprivileged user, or a privileged user within a KVM guest, could exploit this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2012-1179)

Tetsuo Handa reported a flaw in the OOM (out of memory) killer of the Linux kernel. A local unprivileged user can exploit this flaw to cause system unstability and denial of services. (CVE-2012-4398).

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

Sasha Levin discovered a flaw in the permission checking for device assignments requested via the kvm ioctl in the Linux kernel. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system causing a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4347)

Stephan Barwolf discovered a flaw in the KVM (kernel-based virtual machine) subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local unprivileged user can crash use this flaw to crash VMs causing a deny of service.
(CVE-2012-0045)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's cifs file system. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to crash the system leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2012-1090)

H. Peter Anvin reported a flaw in the Linux kernel that could crash the system. A local user could exploit this flaw to crash the system.
(CVE-2012-1097)

Tetsuo Handa reported a flaw in the OOM (out of memory) killer of the Linux kernel. A local unprivileged user can exploit this flaw to cause system unstability and denial of services. (CVE-2012-4398).

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

Sasha Levin discovered a flaw in the permission checking for device assignments requested via the kvm ioctl in the Linux kernel. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system causing a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4347)

Stephan Barwolf discovered a flaw in the KVM (kernel-based virtual machine) subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local unprivileged user can crash use this flaw to crash VMs causing a deny of service.
(CVE-2012-0045)

H. Peter Anvin reported a flaw in the Linux kernel that could crash the system. A local user could exploit this flaw to crash the system.
(CVE-2012-1097)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's cgroups subset. A local attacker could use this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2012-1146).

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

Somnath Kotur discovered an error in the Linux kernel's VLAN (virtual lan) and be2net drivers. An attacker on the local network could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3347).

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

This USN was released in error and has been removed.

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

Paolo Bonzini discovered a flaw in Linux's handling of the SG_IO ioctl command. A local user, or user in a VM could exploit this flaw to bypass restrictions and gain read/write access to all data on the affected block device. (CVE-2011-4127)

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 file system when mounting a corrupt filesystem. A user-assisted remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-2100).

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

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

  - CVE-2009-4307     Nageswara R Sastry reported an issue in the ext4     filesystem. Local users with the privileges to mount a     filesystem can cause a denial of service (BUG) by     providing a s_log_groups_per_flex value greater than 31.

  - CVE-2011-1833     Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall and Dan Rosenberg discovered     an information leak in the eCryptfs filesystem. Local     users were able to mount arbitrary directories.

  - CVE-2011-4347     Sasha Levin reported an issue in the device assignment     functionality in KVM. Local users with permission to     access /dev/kvm could assign unused pci devices to a     guest and cause a denial of service (crash).

  - CVE-2012-0045     Stephan Barwolf reported an issue in KVM. Local users in     a 32-bit guest running on a 64-bit system can crash the     guest with a syscall instruction.

  - CVE-2012-1090     CAI Qian reported an issue in the CIFS filesystem. A     reference count leak can occur during the lookup of     special files, resulting in a denial of service (oops)     on umount.

  - CVE-2012-1097     H. Peter Anvin reported an issue in the regset     infrastructure. Local users can cause a denial of     service (NULL pointer dereference) by triggering the     write methods of readonly regsets.

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate 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.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

This update fixes the following security issues :

* A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's XFS file system implementation handled links with overly long path names.
A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges by mounting a specially crafted disk. (CVE-2011-4077, Moderate)

* Flaws in ghash_update() and ghash_final() could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4081, Moderate)

* A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Journaling Block Device (JBD). A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system by mounting a specially crafted ext3 or ext4 disk.
(CVE-2011-4132, Moderate)

* It was found that the kvm_vm_ioctl_assign_device() function in the KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) subsystem of a Linux kernel did not check if the user requesting device assignment was privileged or not.
A local, unprivileged user on the host could assign unused PCI devices, or even devices that were in use and whose resources were not properly claimed by the respective drivers, which could result in the host crashing. (CVE-2011-4347, Moderate)

* Two flaws were found in the way the Linux kernel's __sys_sendmsg() function, when invoked via the sendmmsg() system call, accessed user-space memory. A local, unprivileged user could use these flaws to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4594, Moderate)

* The RHSA-2011:1530 kernel update introduced an integer overflow flaw in the Linux kernel. On PowerPC systems, a local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4611, Moderate)

* A flaw was found in the way the KVM subsystem of a Linux kernel handled PIT (Programmable Interval Timer) IRQs (interrupt requests) when there was no virtual interrupt controller set up. A local, unprivileged user on the host could force this situation to occur, resulting in the host crashing. (CVE-2011-4622, Moderate)

* A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's XFS file system implementation handled on-disk Access Control Lists (ACLs). A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges by mounting a specially crafted disk.
(CVE-2012-0038, Moderate)

* A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor implementation emulated the syscall instruction for 32-bit guests. An unprivileged guest user could trigger this flaw to crash the guest.
(CVE-2012-0045, Moderate)

* A divide-by-zero flaw was found in the Linux kernel's igmp_heard_query() function. An attacker able to send certain IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) packets to a target system could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-0207, Moderate)

Red Hat would like to thank Nick Bowler for reporting CVE-2011-4081;
Sasha Levin for reporting CVE-2011-4347; Tetsuo Handa for reporting CVE-2011-4594; Maynard Johnson for reporting CVE-2011-4611; Wang Xi for reporting CVE-2012-0038; Stephan Barwolf for reporting CVE-2012-0045; and Simon McVittie for reporting CVE-2012-0207.
Upstream acknowledges Mathieu Desnoyers as the original reporter of CVE-2011-4594.

This update also fixes several bugs. Documentation for these changes will be available shortly from the Technical Notes document linked to in the References section.

Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues, and fix the bugs noted in the Technical Notes. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Paolo Bonzini discovered a flaw in Linux's handling of the SG_IO ioctl command. A local user, or user in a VM could exploit this flaw to bypass restrictions and gain read/write access to all data on the affected block device. (CVE-2011-4127)

A flaw was found in KVM's Programmable Interval Timer (PIT). When a virtual interrupt control is not available a local user could use this to cause a denial of service by starting a timer. (CVE-2011-4622)

A flaw was discovered in the XFS filesystem. If a local user mounts a specially crafted XFS image it could potential execute arbitrary code on the system. (CVE-2012-0038)

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 file system when mounting a corrupt filesystem. A user-assisted remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-2100).

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0350 advisory.

    The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux     operating system.

    This update fixes the following security issues:

    * A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's XFS file     system implementation handled links with overly long path names. A local,     unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service or     escalate their privileges by mounting a specially-crafted disk.
    (CVE-2011-4077, Moderate)

    * Flaws in ghash_update() and ghash_final() could allow a local,     unprivileged user to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4081, Moderate)

    * A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Journaling Block Device (JBD). A     local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system by     mounting a specially-crafted ext3 or ext4 disk. (CVE-2011-4132, Moderate)

    * It was found that the kvm_vm_ioctl_assign_device() function in the KVM     (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) subsystem of a Linux kernel did not check if     the user requesting device assignment was privileged or not. A local,     unprivileged user on the host could assign unused PCI devices, or even     devices that were in use and whose resources were not properly claimed by     the respective drivers, which could result in the host crashing.
    (CVE-2011-4347, Moderate)

    * Two flaws were found in the way the Linux kernel's __sys_sendmsg()     function, when invoked via the sendmmsg() system call, accessed user-space     memory. A local, unprivileged user could use these flaws to cause a denial     of service. (CVE-2011-4594, Moderate)

    * The RHSA-2011:1530 kernel update introduced an integer overflow flaw in     the Linux kernel. On PowerPC systems, a local, unprivileged user could use     this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4611, Moderate)

    * A flaw was found in the way the KVM subsystem of a Linux kernel handled     PIT (Programmable Interval Timer) IRQs (interrupt requests) when there was     no virtual interrupt controller set up. A local, unprivileged user on the     host could force this situation to occur, resulting in the host crashing.
    (CVE-2011-4622, Moderate)

    * A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's XFS file system     implementation handled on-disk Access Control Lists (ACLs). A local,     unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service or     escalate their privileges by mounting a specially-crafted disk.
    (CVE-2012-0038, Moderate)

    * A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor     implementation emulated the syscall instruction for 32-bit guests. An     unprivileged guest user could trigger this flaw to crash the guest.
    (CVE-2012-0045, Moderate)

    * A divide-by-zero flaw was found in the Linux kernel's igmp_heard_query()     function. An attacker able to send certain IGMP (Internet Group Management     Protocol) packets to a target system could use this flaw to cause a denial     of service. (CVE-2012-0207, Moderate)

    Red Hat would like to thank Nick Bowler for reporting CVE-2011-4081; Sasha     Levin for reporting CVE-2011-4347; Tetsuo Handa for reporting     CVE-2011-4594; Maynard Johnson for reporting CVE-2011-4611; Wang Xi for     reporting CVE-2012-0038; Stephan Brwolf for reporting CVE-2012-0045; and     Simon McVittie for reporting CVE-2012-0207. Upstream acknowledges Mathieu     Desnoyers as the original reporter of CVE-2011-4594.

    This update also fixes several bugs. Documentation for these changes will     be available shortly from the Technical Notes document linked to in the     References section.

    Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported     patches to correct these issues, and fix the bugs noted in the Technical     Notes. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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.

Update to the 3.1.8 stable release. Fixes CVE-2011-4347 as well.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
217512	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2011-4347	Nessus	Misc.	high
79283	RHEL 5 : rhev-hypervisor5 (RHSA-2012:0168)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
69662	Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2012-55)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
68669	Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2012-2003)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
68491	Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2012-0350)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
68466	Oracle Linux 5 : kvm (ELSA-2012-0149)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
64044	RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2012:1042)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
64028	RHEL 5 : kvm (RHSA-2012:0149)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
61277	Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120306)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	high
61267	Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL5.x x86_64 (20120221)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	medium
59034	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-natty vulnerabilities (USN-1440-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
58947	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-oneiric vulnerabilities (USN-1433-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
58946	Ubuntu 11.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1431-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
58871	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-1426-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
58870	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1425-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
58742	Ubuntu 11.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1422-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
58741	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-maverick vulnerabilities (USN-1421-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
58497	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-oneiric vulnerabilities (USN-1409-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
58495	Ubuntu 10.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1407-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
58494	Ubuntu 11.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1406-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
58493	Ubuntu 11.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1405-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
58486	Debian DSA-2443-1 : linux-2.6 - privilege escalation/denial of service	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
58275	CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2012:0350)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
58270	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1389-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
58261	RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2012:0350)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
57547	Fedora 16 : kernel-3.1.8-2.fc16 (2012-0363)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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