On multiple SR-IOV cars it is possible for VF's assigned to guests to send ethernet flow control pause frames via the PF. This includes Linux kernel ixgbe driver before commit f079fa005aae08ee0e1bc32699874ff4f02e11c1, the Linux Kernel i40e/i40evf driver before e7358f54a3954df16d4f87e3cad35063f1c17de5 and the DPDK before commit 3f12b9f23b6499ff66ec8b0de941fb469297e5d0, additionally Multiple vendor NIC firmware is affected.

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

  - On multiple SR-IOV cars it is possible for VF's assigned to guests to send ethernet flow control pause     frames via the PF. This includes Linux kernel ixgbe driver before commit     f079fa005aae08ee0e1bc32699874ff4f02e11c1, the Linux Kernel i40e/i40evf driver before     e7358f54a3954df16d4f87e3cad35063f1c17de5 and the DPDK before commit     3f12b9f23b6499ff66ec8b0de941fb469297e5d0, additionally Multiple vendor NIC firmware is affected.
    (CVE-2015-1142857)

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

This update for kernel-firmware fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2015-1142857: Add 7.13.1.0 bnx2x firmware files to     fix a ethernet flow control vulnerability in SRIOV     devices (bsc#1077355)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed :

  - CVE-2017-5715: Systems with microprocessors utilizing     speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may     allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an     attacker with local user access via a side-channel     analysis (bnc#1068032). The previous fix using CPU     Microcode has been complemented by building the Linux     Kernel with return trampolines aka 'retpolines'.

  - CVE-2018-5332: In the Linux kernel the     rds_message_alloc_sgs() function did not validate a     value that is used during DMA page allocation, leading     to a heap-based out-of-bounds write (related to the     rds_rdma_extra_size function in net/rds/rdma.c)     (bnc#1075621).

  - CVE-2018-5333: In the Linux kernel the rds_cmsg_atomic     function in net/rds/rdma.c mishandled cases where page     pinning fails or an invalid address is supplied, leading     to an rds_atomic_free_op NULL pointer dereference     (bnc#1075617).

  - CVE-2017-18017: The tcpmss_mangle_packet function in     net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c in the Linux kernel allowed     remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (use-after-free and memory corruption) or possibly have     unspecified other impact by leveraging the presence of     xt_TCPMSS in an iptables action (bnc#1074488).

  - CVE-2017-18079: drivers/input/serio/i8042.c in the Linux     kernel allowed attackers to cause a denial of service     (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly     have unspecified other impact because the port->exists     value can change after it is validated (bnc#1077922).

  - CVE-2015-1142857: On multiple SR-IOV cars it is possible     for VF's assigned to guests to send ethernet flow     control pause frames via the PF. (bnc#1077355).

  - CVE-2017-17741: The KVM implementation in the Linux     kernel allowed attackers to obtain potentially sensitive     information from kernel memory, aka a write_mmio     stack-based out-of-bounds read, related to     arch/x86/kvm/x86.c and include/trace/events/kvm.h     (bnc#1073311).

  - CVE-2017-13215: A elevation of privilege vulnerability     in the Upstream kernel skcipher. (bnc#1075908).

  - CVE-2018-1000004: In the Linux kernel a race condition     vulnerability existed in the sound system, this can lead     to a deadlock and denial of service condition     (bnc#1076017).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

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

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed :

  - CVE-2017-5715: Systems with microprocessors utilizing     speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may     allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an     attacker with local user access via a side-channel     analysis (bnc#1068032). The previous fix using CPU     Microcode has been complemented by building the Linux     Kernel with return trampolines aka 'retpolines'.

  - CVE-2017-18079: drivers/input/serio/i8042.c allowed     attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer     dereference and system crash) or possibly have     unspecified other impact because the port->exists value     can change after it is validated (bnc#1077922).

  - CVE-2015-1142857: Prevent guests from sending ethernet     flow control pause frames via the PF (bnc#1077355).

  - CVE-2017-17741: KVM allowed attackers to obtain     potentially sensitive information from kernel memory,     aka a write_mmio stack-based out-of-bounds read     (bnc#1073311).

  - CVE-2017-13215: Prevent elevation of privilege     (bnc#1075908).

  - CVE-2018-1000004: Prevent race condition in the sound     system, this could have lead a deadlock and denial of     service condition (bnc#1076017).

  - CVE-2017-17806: The HMAC implementation did not validate     that the underlying cryptographic hash algorithm is     unkeyed, allowing a local attacker able to use the     AF_ALG-based hash interface     (CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_HASH) and the SHA-3 hash     algorithm (CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA3) to cause a kernel     stack-based buffer overflow by executing a crafted     sequence of system calls that encounter a missing SHA-3     initialization (bnc#1073874).

  - CVE-2017-17805: The Salsa20 encryption algorithm did not     correctly handle zero-length inputs, allowing a local     attacker able to use the AF_ALG-based skcipher interface     (CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_SKCIPHER) to cause a denial of     service (uninitialized-memory free and kernel crash) or     have unspecified other impact by executing a crafted     sequence of system calls that use the blkcipher_walk     API. Both the generic implementation     (crypto/salsa20_generic.c) and x86 implementation     (arch/x86/crypto/salsa20_glue.c) of Salsa20 were     vulnerable (bnc#1073792).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

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

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 GA LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed :

  - CVE-2017-5715: Systems with microprocessors utilizing     speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may     allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an     attacker with local user access via a side-channel     analysis (bnc#1068032). The previous fix using CPU     Microcode has been complemented by building the Linux     Kernel with return trampolines aka 'retpolines'.

  - CVE-2017-18079: drivers/input/serio/i8042.c allowed     attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer     dereference and system crash) or possibly have     unspecified other impact because the port->exists value     can change after it is validated (bnc#1077922)

  - CVE-2015-1142857: Prevent guests from sending ethernet     flow control pause frames via the PF (bnc#1077355)

  - CVE-2017-17741: KVM allowed attackers to obtain     potentially sensitive information from kernel memory,     aka a write_mmio stack-based out-of-bounds read     (bnc#1073311)

  - CVE-2017-13215: Prevent elevation of privilege     (bnc#1075908)

  - CVE-2018-1000004: Prevent race condition in the sound     system, this could have lead a deadlock and denial of     service condition (bnc#1076017)

  - CVE-2017-17806: The HMAC implementation did not validate     that the underlying cryptographic hash algorithm is     unkeyed, allowing a local attacker able to use the     AF_ALG-based hash interface     (CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_HASH) and the SHA-3 hash     algorithm (CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA3) to cause a kernel     stack-based buffer overflow by executing a crafted     sequence of system calls that encounter a missing SHA-3     initialization (bnc#1073874)

  - CVE-2017-17805: The Salsa20 encryption algorithm did not     correctly handle zero-length inputs, allowing a local     attacker able to use the AF_ALG-based skcipher interface     (CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_SKCIPHER) to cause a denial of     service (uninitialized-memory free and kernel crash) or     have unspecified other impact by executing a crafted     sequence of system calls that use the blkcipher_walk     API. Both the generic implementation     (crypto/salsa20_generic.c) and x86 implementation     (arch/x86/crypto/salsa20_glue.c) of Salsa20 were     vulnerable (bnc#1073792)

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
218533	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2015-1142857	Nessus	Misc.	high
108392	openSUSE Security Update : kernel-firmware (openSUSE-2018-262)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
107055	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0555-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
106967	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0525-1) (Spectre)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
106815	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0437-1) (Spectre)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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