The "stub_recv_cmd_submit()" function (drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c) in the Linux Kernel before version 4.14.8, 4.9.71, and 4.4.114 when handling CMD_SUBMIT packets allows attackers to cause a denial of service (arbitrary memory allocation) via a specially crafted USB over IP packet.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3754-1 advisory.

  - The ext4_fill_super function in fs/ext4/super.c in the Linux kernel through 4.9.8 does not properly     validate meta block groups, which allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (out-     of-bounds read and system crash) via a crafted ext4 image. (CVE-2016-10208)

  - The acpi_ns_terminate() function in drivers/acpi/acpica/nsutils.c in the Linux kernel before 4.12 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-2017-11472)

  - Buffer overflow in the mp_override_legacy_irq() function in arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c in the Linux     kernel through 3.2 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted ACPI table. (CVE-2017-11473)

  - The sg_ioctl function in drivers/scsi/sg.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.4 allows local users to obtain     sensitive information from uninitialized kernel heap-memory locations via an SG_GET_REQUEST_TABLE ioctl     call for /dev/sg0. (CVE-2017-14991)

  - net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.6 allows local users to gain privileges via crafted     system calls that trigger mishandling of packet_fanout data structures, because of a race condition     (involving fanout_add and packet_do_bind) that leads to a use-after-free, a different vulnerability than     CVE-2017-6346. (CVE-2017-15649)

  - drivers/uwb/uwbd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service     (general protection fault and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB     device. (CVE-2017-16526)

  - sound/usb/mixer.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service     (snd_usb_mixer_interrupt use-after-free and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a     crafted USB device. (CVE-2017-16527)

  - The snd_usb_create_streams function in sound/usb/card.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.6 allows local     users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and system crash) or possibly have unspecified     other impact via a crafted USB device. (CVE-2017-16529)

  - drivers/usb/core/config.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.6 allows local users to cause a denial of     service (out-of-bounds read and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB     device, related to the USB_DT_INTERFACE_ASSOCIATION descriptor. (CVE-2017-16531)

  - The get_endpoints function in drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.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-2017-16532)

  - The usbhid_parse function in drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.8 allows local     users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and system crash) or possibly have unspecified     other impact via a crafted USB device. (CVE-2017-16533)

  - The usb_get_bos_descriptor function in drivers/usb/core/config.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.10 allows     local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and system crash) or possibly have     unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device. (CVE-2017-16535)

  - The cx231xx_usb_probe function in drivers/media/usb/cx231xx/cx231xx-cards.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-2017-16536)

  - 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)

  - drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/lmedm04.c in the Linux kernel through 4.13.11 allows local users to cause a     denial of service (general protection fault and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact     via a crafted USB device, related to a missing warm-start check and incorrect attach timing     (dm04_lme2510_frontend_attach versus dm04_lme2510_tuner). (CVE-2017-16538)

  - The parse_hid_report_descriptor function in drivers/input/tablet/gtco.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.11     allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and system crash) or possibly have     unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device. (CVE-2017-16643)

  - The hdpvr_probe function in drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-core.c in the Linux kernel through 4.13.11     allows local users to cause a denial of service (improper error handling and system crash) or possibly     have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device. (CVE-2017-16644)

  - The ims_pcu_get_cdc_union_desc function in drivers/input/misc/ims-pcu.c in the Linux kernel through     4.13.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service (ims_pcu_parse_cdc_data out-of-bounds read and     system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device. (CVE-2017-16645)

  - The qmi_wwan_bind function in drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c in the Linux kernel through 4.13.11 allows local     users to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and system crash) or possibly have unspecified     other impact via a crafted USB device. (CVE-2017-16650)

  - The vhci_hcd driver in the Linux Kernel before version 4.14.8 and 4.4.114 allows allows local attackers to     disclose kernel memory addresses. Successful exploitation requires that a USB device is attached over IP.
    (CVE-2017-16911)

  - The get_pipe() function (drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c) in the Linux Kernel before version 4.14.8, 4.9.71,     and 4.4.114 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a specially crafted USB     over IP packet. (CVE-2017-16912)

  - The stub_recv_cmd_submit() function (drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c) in the Linux Kernel before version     4.14.8, 4.9.71, and 4.4.114 when handling CMD_SUBMIT packets allows attackers to cause a denial of service     (arbitrary memory allocation) via a specially crafted USB over IP packet. (CVE-2017-16913)

  - The stub_send_ret_submit() function (drivers/usb/usbip/stub_tx.c) in the Linux Kernel before version     4.14.8, 4.9.71, 4.1.49, and 4.4.107 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer     dereference) via a specially crafted USB over IP packet. (CVE-2017-16914)

  - The usb_destroy_configuration function in drivers/usb/core/config.c in the USB core subsystem in the Linux     kernel through 4.14.5 does not consider the maximum number of configurations and interfaces before     attempting to release resources, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds     write access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device. (CVE-2017-17558)

  - The perf_cpu_time_max_percent_handler function in kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11     allows local users to cause a denial of service (integer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other     impact via a large value, as demonstrated by an incorrect sample-rate calculation. (CVE-2017-18255)

  - 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 load_segment_descriptor implementation in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9.5     improperly emulates a MOV SS, NULL selector instruction, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial     of service (guest OS crash) or gain guest OS privileges via a crafted application. (CVE-2017-2583)

  - arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the Linux kernel through 4.9.3 allows local users to obtain sensitive     information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) via a crafted application     that leverages instruction emulation for fxrstor, fxsave, sgdt, and sidt. (CVE-2017-2584)

  - The ping_unhash function in net/ipv4/ping.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.8 is too late in obtaining a     certain lock and consequently cannot ensure that disconnect function calls are safe, which allows local     users to cause a denial of service (panic) by leveraging access to the protocol value of IPPROTO_ICMP in a     socket system call. (CVE-2017-2671)

  - The klsi_105_get_line_state function in drivers/usb/serial/kl5kusb105.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9.5     places uninitialized heap-memory contents into a log entry upon a failure to read the line status, which     allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the log. (CVE-2017-5549)

  - The ip6gre_err function in net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c in the Linux kernel allows remote attackers to have     unspecified impact via vectors involving GRE flags in an IPv6 packet, which trigger an out-of-bounds     access. (CVE-2017-5897)

  - The LLC subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.9.13 does not ensure that a certain destructor exists in     required circumstances, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG_ON) or possibly have     unspecified other impact via crafted system calls. (CVE-2017-6345)

  - The hashbin_delete function in net/irda/irqueue.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9.13 improperly manages     lock dropping, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via crafted operations on     IrDA devices. (CVE-2017-6348)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel before version 4.12 in the way the KVM module processed the trap     flag(TF) bit in EFLAGS during emulation of the syscall instruction, which leads to a debug exception(#DB)     being raised in the guest stack. A user/process inside a guest could use this flaw to potentially escalate     their privileges inside the guest. Linux guests are not affected by this. (CVE-2017-7518)

  - The NFSv2/NFSv3 server in the nfsd subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.10.11 allows remote attackers     to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a long RPC reply, related to net/sunrpc/svc.c,     fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c, and fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c. (CVE-2017-7645)

  - The saa7164_bus_get function in drivers/media/pci/saa7164/saa7164-bus.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.5     allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have unspecified     other impact by changing a certain sequence-number value, aka a double fetch vulnerability.
    (CVE-2017-8831)

  - The snd_msnd_interrupt function in sound/isa/msnd/msnd_pinnacle.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.7     allows local users to cause a denial of service (over-boundary access) or possibly have unspecified other     impact by changing the value of a message queue head pointer between two kernel reads of that value, aka a     double fetch vulnerability. (CVE-2017-9984)

  - The snd_msndmidi_input_read function in sound/isa/msnd/msnd_midi.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.7     allows local users to cause a denial of service (over-boundary access) or possibly have unspecified other     impact by changing the value of a message queue head pointer between two kernel reads of that value, aka a     double fetch vulnerability. (CVE-2017-9985)

  - Linux Kernel version 3.18 to 4.16 incorrectly handles an SG_IO ioctl on /dev/sg0 with     dxfer_direction=SG_DXFER_FROM_DEV and an empty 6-byte cmdp. This may lead to copying up to 1000 kernel     heap pages to the userspace. This has been fixed upstream in     https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a45b599ad808c3c982fdcdc12b0b8611c2f92824 already. The problem has     limited scope, as users don't usually have permissions to access SCSI devices. On the other hand, e.g. the     Nero user manual suggests doing `chmod o+r+w /dev/sg*` to make the devices accessible. NOTE: third parties     dispute the relevance of this report, noting that the requirement for an attacker to have both the     CAP_SYS_ADMIN and CAP_SYS_RAWIO capabilities makes it virtually impossible to exploit. (CVE-2018-1000204)

  - drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_scsi_host.c in the Linux kernel before 4.16 allows local users to cause a denial     of service (ata qc leak) by triggering certain failure conditions. NOTE: a third party disputes the     relevance of this report because the failure can only occur for physically proximate attackers who unplug     SAS Host Bus Adapter cables (CVE-2018-10021)

  - The kernel_wait4 function in kernel/exit.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13, when an unspecified     architecture and compiler is used, might allow local users to cause a denial of service by triggering an     attempted use of the -INT_MIN value. (CVE-2018-10087)

  - The kill_something_info function in kernel/signal.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13, when an unspecified     architecture and compiler is used, might allow local users to cause a denial of service via an INT_MIN     argument. (CVE-2018-10124)

  - 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)

  - The do_get_mempolicy function in mm/mempolicy.c in the Linux kernel before 4.12.9 allows local users to     cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted system     calls. (CVE-2018-10675)

  - Linux kernel ext4 filesystem is vulnerable to an out-of-bound access in the ext4_ext_drop_refs() function     when operating on a crafted ext4 filesystem image. (CVE-2018-10877)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. A local user can cause an out-of-bound access in     ext4_get_group_info function, a denial of service, and a system crash by mounting and operating on a     crafted ext4 filesystem image. (CVE-2018-10881)

  - The ext4_iget function in fs/ext4/inode.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.15 mishandles the case of a     root directory with a zero i_links_count, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service     (ext4_process_freed_data NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) via a crafted ext4 image. (CVE-2018-1092)

  - The ext4_valid_block_bitmap function in fs/ext4/balloc.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.15 allows     attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and system crash) via a crafted ext4 image     because balloc.c and ialloc.c do not validate bitmap block numbers. (CVE-2018-1093)

  - The cdrom_ioctl_media_changed function in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c in the Linux kernel before 4.16.6 allows     local attackers to use a incorrect bounds check in the CDROM driver CDROM_MEDIA_CHANGED ioctl to read out     kernel memory. (CVE-2018-10940)

  - In the ea_get function in fs/jfs/xattr.c in the Linux kernel through 4.17.1, a memory corruption bug in     JFS can be triggered by calling setxattr twice with two different extended attribute names on the same     file. This vulnerability can be triggered by an unprivileged user with the ability to create files and     execute programs. A kmalloc call is incorrect, leading to slab-out-of-bounds in jfs_xattr.
    (CVE-2018-12233)

  - An issue was discovered in fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c in the Linux kernel through 4.17.3. An OOPS may     occur for a corrupted xfs image after xfs_da_shrink_inode() is called with a NULL bp. (CVE-2018-13094)

  - The inode_init_owner function in fs/inode.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16 allows local users to create     files with an unintended group ownership, in a scenario where a directory is SGID to a certain group and     is writable by a user who is not a member of that group. Here, the non-member can trigger creation of a     plain file whose group ownership is that group. The intended behavior was that the non-member can trigger     creation of a directory (but not a plain file) whose group ownership is that group. The non-member can     escalate privileges by making the plain file executable and SGID. (CVE-2018-13405)

  - An integer overflow in the uvesafb_setcmap function in drivers/video/fbdev/uvesafb.c in the Linux kernel     before 4.17.4 could result in local attackers being able to crash the kernel or potentially elevate     privileges because kmalloc_array is not used. (CVE-2018-13406)

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

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed :

  - CVE-2018-1087: And an unprivileged KVM guest user could     use this flaw to potentially escalate their privileges     inside a guest. (bsc#1087088)

  - CVE-2018-8897: An unprivileged system user could use     incorrect set up interrupt stacks to crash the Linux     kernel resulting in DoS issue. (bsc#1087088)

  - CVE-2018-10124: The kill_something_info function in     kernel/signal.c might allow local users to cause a     denial of service via an INT_MIN argument (bnc#1089752).

  - CVE-2018-10087: The kernel_wait4 function in     kernel/exit.c might allow local users to cause a denial     of service by triggering an attempted use of the
    -INT_MIN value (bnc#1089608).

  - CVE-2018-7757: Memory leak in the sas_smp_get_phy_events     function in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c allowed     local users to cause a denial of service (memory     consumption) via many read accesses to files in the     /sys/class/sas_phy directory, as demonstrated by the     /sys/class/sas_phy/phy-1:0:12/invalid_dword_count file     (bnc#1084536 1087209).

  - CVE-2018-7566: A Buffer Overflow via an     SNDRV_SEQ_IOCTL_SET_CLIENT_POOL ioctl write operation to     /dev/snd/seq by a local user was fixed (bnc#1083483).

  - CVE-2017-0861: Use-after-free vulnerability in the     snd_pcm_info function in the ALSA subsystem allowed     attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors     (bnc#1088260).

  - CVE-2018-8822: Incorrect buffer length handling in the     ncp_read_kernel function in fs/ncpfs/ncplib_kernel.c     could be exploited by malicious NCPFS servers to crash     the kernel or execute code (bnc#1086162).

  - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability     in the kernel v4l2 video driver. (bnc#1072865).

  - CVE-2017-18203: The dm_get_from_kobject function in     drivers/md/dm.c allow local users to cause a denial of     service (BUG) by leveraging a race condition with
    __dm_destroy during creation and removal of DM devices     (bnc#1083242).

  - CVE-2017-16911: The vhci_hcd driver allowed allows local     attackers to disclose kernel memory addresses.
    Successful exploitation requires that a USB device is     attached over IP (bnc#1078674).

  - CVE-2017-18208: The madvise_willneed function in     mm/madvise.c allowed local users to cause a denial of     service (infinite loop) by triggering use of     MADVISE_WILLNEED for a DAX mapping (bnc#1083494).

  - CVE-2017-16644: The hdpvr_probe function in     drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-core.c allowed local users     to cause a denial of service (improper error handling     and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other     impact via a crafted USB device (bnc#1067118).

  - CVE-2018-6927: The futex_requeue function in     kernel/futex.c might allow attackers to cause a denial     of service (integer overflow) or possibly have     unspecified other impact by triggering a negative wake     or requeue value (bnc#1080757).

  - CVE-2017-16914: The 'stub_send_ret_submit()' function     (drivers/usb/usbip/stub_tx.c) allowed attackers to cause     a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a     specially crafted USB over IP packet (bnc#1078669).

  - CVE-2016-7915: The hid_input_field function in     drivers/hid/hid-core.c allowed physically proximate     attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel     memory or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read)     by connecting a device, as demonstrated by a Logitech DJ     receiver (bnc#1010470).

  - CVE-2015-5156: The virtnet_probe function in     drivers/net/virtio_net.c attempted to support a FRAGLIST     feature without proper memory allocation, which allowed     guest OS users to cause a denial of service (buffer     overflow and memory corruption) via a crafted sequence     of fragmented packets (bnc#940776).

  - CVE-2017-12190: The bio_map_user_iov and bio_unmap_user     functions in block/bio.c did unbalanced refcounting when     a SCSI I/O vector has small consecutive buffers     belonging to the same page. The bio_add_pc_page function     merges them into one, but the page reference is never     dropped. This causes a memory leak and possible system     lockup (exploitable against the host OS by a guest OS     user, if a SCSI disk is passed through to a virtual     machine) due to an out-of-memory condition     (bnc#1062568).

  - CVE-2017-16912: The 'get_pipe()' function     (drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c) allowed attackers to cause     a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a specially     crafted USB over IP packet (bnc#1078673).

  - CVE-2017-16913: The 'stub_recv_cmd_submit()' function     (drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c) when handling CMD_SUBMIT     packets allowed attackers to cause a denial of service     (arbitrary memory allocation) via a specially crafted     USB over IP packet (bnc#1078672).

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.

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

CVE-2017-0861

Robb Glasser reported a potential use-after-free in the ALSA (sound) PCM core. We believe this was not possible in practice.

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 the 'retpoline' compiler feature which allows indirect branches to be isolated from speculative execution.

CVE-2017-13166

A bug in the 32-bit compatibility layer of the v4l2 ioctl handling code has been found. Memory protections ensuring user-provided buffers always point to userland memory were disabled, allowing destination addresses to be in kernel space. On a 64-bit kernel (amd64 flavour) a local user with access to a suitable video device can exploit this to overwrite kernel memory, leading to privilege escalation.

CVE-2017-16526

Andrey Konovalov reported that the UWB subsystem may dereference an invalid pointer in an error case. A local user might be able to use this for denial of service.

CVE-2017-16911

Secunia Research reported that the USB/IP vhci_hcd driver exposed kernel heap addresses to local users. This information could aid the exploitation of other vulnerabilities.

CVE-2017-16912

Secunia Research reported that the USB/IP stub driver failed to perform a range check on a received packet header field, leading to an out-of-bounds read. A remote user able to connect to the USB/IP server could use this for denial of service.

CVE-2017-16913

Secunia Research reported that the USB/IP stub driver failed to perform a range check on a received packet header field, leading to excessive memory allocation. A remote user able to connect to the USB/IP server could use this for denial of service.

CVE-2017-16914

Secunia Research reported that the USB/IP stub driver failed to check for an invalid combination of fields in a recieved packet, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A remote user able to connect to the USB/IP server could use this for denial of service.

CVE-2017-18017

Denys Fedoryshchenko reported that the netfilter xt_TCPMSS module failed to validate TCP header lengths, potentially leading to a use-after-free. If this module is loaded, it could be used by a remote attacker for denial of service or possibly for code execution.

CVE-2017-18203

Hou Tao reported that there was a race condition in creation and deletion of device-mapper (DM) devices. A local user could potentially use this for denial of service.

CVE-2017-18216

Alex Chen reported that the OCFS2 filesystem failed to hold a necessary lock during nodemanager sysfs file operations, potentially leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local user could use this for denial of service.

CVE-2018-1068

The syzkaller tool found that the 32-bit compatibility layer of ebtables did not sufficiently validate offset values. On a 64-bit kernel (amd64 flavour), a local user with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability could use this to overwrite kernel memory, possibly leading to privilege escalation.

CVE-2018-1092

Wen Xu reported that a crafted ext4 filesystem image would trigger a null dereference when mounted. A local user able to mount arbitrary filesystems could use this for denial of service.

CVE-2018-5332

Mohamed Ghannam reported that the RDS protocol did not sufficiently validate RDMA requests, leading to an out-of-bounds write. A local attacker on a system with the rds module loaded could use this for denial of service or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2018-5333

Mohamed Ghannam reported that the RDS protocol did not properly handle an error case, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker on a system with the rds module loaded could possibly use this for denial of service.

CVE-2018-5750

Wang Qize reported that the ACPI sbshc driver logged a kernel heap address. This information could aid the exploitation of other vulnerabilities.

CVE-2018-5803

Alexey Kodanev reported that the SCTP protocol did not range-check the length of chunks to be created. A local or remote user could use this to cause a denial of service.

CVE-2018-6927

Li Jinyue reported that the FUTEX_REQUEUE operation on futexes did not check for negative parameter values, which might lead to a denial of service or other security impact.

CVE-2018-7492

The syzkaller tool found that the RDS protocol was lacking a NULL pointer check. A local attacker on a system with the rds module loaded could use this for denial of service.

CVE-2018-7566

&#x8303;&#x9F99;&#x98DE; (Fan LongFei) reported a race condition in the ALSA (sound) sequencer core, between write and ioctl operations.
This could lead to an out-of-bounds access or use-after-free. A local user with access to a sequencer device could use this for denial of service or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2018-7740

Nic Losby reported that the hugetlbfs filesystem's mmap operation did not properly range-check the file offset. A local user with access to files on a hugetlbfs filesystem could use this to cause a denial of service.

CVE-2018-7757

Jason Yan reported a memory leak in the SAS (Serial-Attached SCSI) subsystem. A local user on a system with SAS devices could use this to cause a denial of service.

CVE-2018-7995

Seunghun Han reported a race condition in the x86 MCE (Machine Check Exception) driver. This is unlikely to have any security impact.

CVE-2018-8781

Eyal Itkin reported that the udl (DisplayLink) driver's mmap operation did not properly range-check the file offset. A local user with access to a udl framebuffer device could exploit this to overwrite kernel memory, leading to privilege escalation.

CVE-2018-8822

Dr Silvio Cesare of InfoSect reported that the ncpfs client implementation did not validate reply lengths from the server. An ncpfs server could use this to cause a denial of service or remote code execution in the client.

CVE-2018-1000004

Luo Quan reported a race condition in the ALSA (sound) sequencer core, between multiple ioctl operations. This could lead to a deadlock or use-after-free. A local user with access to a sequencer device could use this for denial of service or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2018-1000199

Andy Lutomirski discovered that the ptrace subsystem did not sufficiently validate hardware breakpoint settings. Local users can use this to cause a denial of service, or possibly for privilege escalation, on x86 (amd64 and i386) and possibly other architectures.

Additionally, some mitigations for CVE-2017-5753 are included in this release :

CVE-2017-5753

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 1 (bounds-check bypass) and is mitigated by identifying vulnerable code sections (array bounds checking followed by array access) and replacing the array access with the speculation-safe array_index_nospec() function.

More use sites will be added over time.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 3.2.101-1. This version also includes bug fixes from upstream versions up to and including 3.2.101. It also fixes a regression in the procfs hidepid option in the previous version (Debian bug #887106).

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.

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

  - CVE-2015-9016     Ming Lei reported a race condition in the multiqueue     block layer (blk-mq). On a system with a driver using     blk-mq (mtip32xx, null_blk, or virtio_blk), a local user     might be able to use this for denial of service or     possibly for privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2017-0861     Robb Glasser reported a potential use-after-free in the     ALSA (sound) PCM core. We believe this was not possible     in practice.

  - 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 the 'retpoline' compiler feature which allows   indirect branches to be isolated from speculative execution.

  - CVE-2017-5753     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 1 (bounds-check   bypass) and is mitigated by identifying vulnerable code sections   (array bounds checking followed by array access) and replacing the   array access with the speculation-safe array_index_nospec()   function.

  More use sites will be added over time.

  - CVE-2017-13166     A bug in the 32-bit compatibility layer of the v4l2     ioctl handling code has been found. Memory protections     ensuring user-provided buffers always point to userland     memory were disabled, allowing destination addresses to     be in kernel space. On a 64-bit kernel a local user with     access to a suitable video device can exploit this to     overwrite kernel memory, leading to privilege     escalation.

  - CVE-2017-13220     Al Viro reported that the Bluetooth HIDP implementation     could dereference a pointer before performing the     necessary type check. A local user could use this to     cause a denial of service.

  - CVE-2017-16526     Andrey Konovalov reported that the UWB subsystem may     dereference an invalid pointer in an error case. A local     user might be able to use this for denial of service.

  - CVE-2017-16911     Secunia Research reported that the USB/IP vhci_hcd     driver exposed kernel heap addresses to local users.
    This information could aid the exploitation of other     vulnerabilities.

  - CVE-2017-16912     Secunia Research reported that the USB/IP stub driver     failed to perform a range check on a received packet     header field, leading to an out-of-bounds read. A remote     user able to connect to the USB/IP server could use this     for denial of service.

  - CVE-2017-16913     Secunia Research reported that the USB/IP stub driver     failed to perform a range check on a received packet     header field, leading to excessive memory allocation. A     remote user able to connect to the USB/IP server could     use this for denial of service.

  - CVE-2017-16914     Secunia Research reported that the USB/IP stub driver     failed to check for an invalid combination of fields in     a received packet, leading to a NULL pointer     dereference. A remote user able to connect to the USB/IP     server could use this for denial of service.

  - CVE-2017-18017     Denys Fedoryshchenko reported that the netfilter     xt_TCPMSS module failed to validate TCP header lengths,     potentially leading to a use-after-free. If this module     is loaded, it could be used by a remote attacker for     denial of service or possibly for code execution.

  - CVE-2017-18203     Hou Tao reported that there was a race condition in     creation and deletion of device-mapper (DM) devices. A     local user could potentially use this for denial of     service.

  - CVE-2017-18216     Alex Chen reported that the OCFS2 filesystem failed to     hold a necessary lock during nodemanager sysfs file     operations, potentially leading to a NULL pointer     dereference. A local user could use this for denial of     service.

  - CVE-2017-18232     Jason Yan reported a race condition in the SAS     (Serial-Attached SCSI) subsystem, between probing and     destroying a port. This could lead to a deadlock. A     physically present attacker could use this to cause a     denial of service.

  - CVE-2017-18241     Yunlei He reported that the f2fs implementation does not     properly initialise its state if the 'noflush_merge'     mount option is used. A local user with access to a     filesystem mounted with this option could use this to     cause a denial of service.

  - 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.

  - CVE-2018-1068     The syzkaller tool found that the 32-bit compatibility     layer of ebtables did not sufficiently validate offset     values. On a 64-bit kernel, a local user with the     CAP_NET_ADMIN capability (in any user namespace) could     use this to overwrite kernel memory, possibly leading to     privilege escalation. Debian disables unprivileged user     namespaces by default.

  - CVE-2018-1092     Wen Xu reported that a crafted ext4 filesystem image     would trigger a null dereference when mounted. A local     user able to mount arbitrary filesystems could use this     for denial of service.

  - CVE-2018-5332     Mohamed Ghannam reported that the RDS protocol did not     sufficiently validate RDMA requests, leading to an     out-of-bounds write. A local attacker on a system with     the rds module loaded could use this for denial of     service or possibly for privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2018-5333     Mohamed Ghannam reported that the RDS protocol did not     properly handle an error case, leading to a NULL pointer     dereference. A local attacker on a system with the rds     module loaded could possibly use this for denial of     service.

  - CVE-2018-5750     Wang Qize reported that the ACPI sbshc driver logged a     kernel heap address. This information could aid the     exploitation of other vulnerabilities.

  - CVE-2018-5803     Alexey Kodanev reported that the SCTP protocol did not     range-check the length of chunks to be created. A local     or remote user could use this to cause a denial of     service.

  - CVE-2018-6927     Li Jinyue reported that the FUTEX_REQUEUE operation on     futexes did not check for negative parameter values,     which might lead to a denial of service or other     security impact.

  - CVE-2018-7492     The syzkaller tool found that the RDS protocol was     lacking a null pointer check. A local attacker on a     system with the rds module loaded could use this for     denial of service.

  - CVE-2018-7566     Fan LongFei reported a race condition in the ALSA     (sound) sequencer core, between write and ioctl     operations. This could lead to an out-of-bounds access     or use-after-free. A local user with access to a     sequencer device could use this for denial of service or     possibly for privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2018-7740     Nic Losby reported that the hugetlbfs filesystem's mmap     operation did not properly range-check the file offset.
    A local user with access to files on a hugetlbfs     filesystem could use this to cause a denial of service.

  - CVE-2018-7757     Jason Yan reported a memory leak in the SAS     (Serial-Attached SCSI) subsystem. A local user on a     system with SAS devices could use this to cause a denial     of service.

  - CVE-2018-7995     Seunghun Han reported a race condition in the x86 MCE     (Machine Check Exception) driver. This is unlikely to     have any security impact.

  - CVE-2018-8781     Eyal Itkin reported that the udl (DisplayLink) driver's     mmap operation did not properly range-check the file     offset. A local user with access to a udl framebuffer     device could exploit this to overwrite kernel memory,     leading to privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2018-8822     Dr Silvio Cesare of InfoSect reported that the ncpfs     client implementation did not validate reply lengths     from the server. An ncpfs server could use this to cause     a denial of service or remote code execution in the     client.

  - CVE-2018-1000004     Luo Quan reported a race condition in the ALSA (sound)     sequencer core, between multiple ioctl operations. This     could lead to a deadlock or use-after-free. A local user     with access to a sequencer device could use this for     denial of service or possibly for privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2018-1000199     Andy Lutomirski discovered that the ptrace subsystem did     not sufficiently validate hardware breakpoint settings.
    Local users can use this to cause a denial of service,     or possibly for privilege escalation, on x86 (amd64 and     i386) and possibly other architectures.

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). Enhancements and bugfixes over     the previous fixes have been added to this kernel.

  - CVE-2018-10087: The kernel_wait4 function in     kernel/exit.c might have allowed local users to cause a     denial of service by triggering an attempted use of the
    -INT_MIN value (bnc#1089608).

  - CVE-2018-7757: Memory leak in the sas_smp_get_phy_events     function in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c allowed     local users to cause a denial of service (memory     consumption) via many read accesses to files in the     /sys/class/sas_phy directory, as demonstrated by the     /sys/class/sas_phy/phy-1:0:12/invalid_dword_count file     (bnc#1084536).

  - CVE-2018-7566: There was a buffer overflow via an     SNDRV_SEQ_IOCTL_SET_CLIENT_POOL ioctl write operation to     /dev/snd/seq by a local user (bnc#1083483).

  - CVE-2017-0861: Use-after-free vulnerability in the     snd_pcm_info function in the ALSA subsystem allowed     attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors     (bnc#1088260).

  - CVE-2018-8822: Incorrect buffer length handling in the     ncp_read_kernel function in fs/ncpfs/ncplib_kernel.c     could be exploited by malicious NCPFS servers to crash     the kernel or execute code (bnc#1086162).

  - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability     in the kernel v4l2 video driver. (bnc#1072865).

  - CVE-2017-18203: The dm_get_from_kobject function in     drivers/md/dm.c allowed local users to cause a denial of     service (BUG) by leveraging a race condition with
    __dm_destroy during creation and removal of DM devices     (bnc#1083242).

  - CVE-2017-16911: The vhci_hcd driver allowed allows local     attackers to disclose kernel memory addresses.
    Successful exploitation requires that a USB device is     attached over IP (bnc#1078674).

  - CVE-2017-18208: The madvise_willneed function in     mm/madvise.c local users to cause a denial of service     (infinite loop) by triggering use of MADVISE_WILLNEED     for a DAX mapping (bnc#1083494).

  - CVE-2017-16644: The hdpvr_probe function in     drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-core.c allowed local users     to cause a denial of service (improper error handling     and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other     impact via a crafted USB device (bnc#1067118).

  - CVE-2018-6927: The futex_requeue function in     kernel/futex.c in the Linux kernel might allow attackers     to cause a denial of service (integer overflow) or     possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a     negative wake or requeue value (bnc#1080757).

  - CVE-2017-16914: The 'stub_send_ret_submit()' function     (drivers/usb/usbip/stub_tx.c) allowed attackers to cause     a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a     specially crafted USB over IP packet (bnc#1078669).

  - CVE-2016-7915: The hid_input_field function in     drivers/hid/hid-core.c allowed physically proximate     attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel     memory or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read)     by connecting a device, as demonstrated by a Logitech DJ     receiver (bnc#1010470).

  - CVE-2015-5156: The virtnet_probe function in     drivers/net/virtio_net.c attempted to support a FRAGLIST     feature without proper memory allocation, which allowed     guest OS users to cause a denial of service (buffer     overflow and memory corruption) via a crafted sequence     of fragmented packets (bnc#940776).

  - CVE-2017-12190: The bio_map_user_iov and bio_unmap_user     functions in block/bio.c did unbalanced refcounting when     a SCSI I/O vector has small consecutive buffers     belonging to the same page. The bio_add_pc_page function     merges them into one, but the page reference is never     dropped. This causes a memory leak and possible system     lockup (exploitable against the host OS by a guest OS     user, if a SCSI disk is passed through to a virtual     machine) due to an out-of-memory condition     (bnc#1062568).

  - CVE-2017-16912: The 'get_pipe()' function     (drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c) allowed attackers to cause     a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a specially     crafted USB over IP packet (bnc#1078673).

  - CVE-2017-16913: The 'stub_recv_cmd_submit()' function     (drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c) when handling CMD_SUBMIT     packets allowed attackers to cause a denial of service     (arbitrary memory allocation) via a specially crafted     USB over IP packet (bnc#1078672).

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 remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3619-2 advisory.

  - Use-after-free vulnerability in the snd_pcm_info function in the ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel allows     attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2017-0861)

  - The Linux Kernel 2.6.32 and later are affected by a denial of service, by flooding the diagnostic port     0x80 an exception can be triggered leading to a kernel panic. (CVE-2017-1000407)

  - The acpi_ns_terminate() function in drivers/acpi/acpica/nsutils.c in the Linux kernel before 4.12 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-2017-11472)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability was found in network namespaces code affecting the Linux kernel before     4.14.11. The function get_net_ns_by_id() in net/core/net_namespace.c does not check for the net::count     value after it has found a peer network in netns_ids idr, which could lead to double free and memory     corruption. This vulnerability could allow an unprivileged local user to induce kernel memory corruption     on the system, leading to a crash. Due to the nature of the flaw, privilege escalation cannot be fully     ruled out, although it is thought to be unlikely. (CVE-2017-15129)

  - sound/core/seq_device.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service     (snd_rawmidi_dev_seq_free use-after-free and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a     crafted USB device. (CVE-2017-16528)

  - The get_endpoints function in drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.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-2017-16532)

  - The cx231xx_usb_probe function in drivers/media/usb/cx231xx/cx231xx-cards.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-2017-16536)

  - 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)

  - The ims_pcu_get_cdc_union_desc function in drivers/input/misc/ims-pcu.c in the Linux kernel through     4.13.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service (ims_pcu_parse_cdc_data out-of-bounds read and     system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device. (CVE-2017-16645)

  - drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dib0700_devices.c in the Linux kernel through 4.13.11 allows local users to     cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted     USB device. (CVE-2017-16646)

  - The usbnet_generic_cdc_bind function in drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.c in the Linux kernel through 4.13.11     allows local users to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and system crash) or possibly have     unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device. (CVE-2017-16649)

  - The qmi_wwan_bind function in drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c in the Linux kernel through 4.13.11 allows local     users to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and system crash) or possibly have unspecified     other impact via a crafted USB device. (CVE-2017-16650)

  - The vhci_hcd driver in the Linux Kernel before version 4.14.8 and 4.4.114 allows allows local attackers to     disclose kernel memory addresses. Successful exploitation requires that a USB device is attached over IP.
    (CVE-2017-16911)

  - The get_pipe() function (drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c) in the Linux Kernel before version 4.14.8, 4.9.71,     and 4.4.114 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a specially crafted USB     over IP packet. (CVE-2017-16912)

  - The stub_recv_cmd_submit() function (drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c) in the Linux Kernel before version     4.14.8, 4.9.71, and 4.4.114 when handling CMD_SUBMIT packets allows attackers to cause a denial of service     (arbitrary memory allocation) via a specially crafted USB over IP packet. (CVE-2017-16913)

  - The stub_send_ret_submit() function (drivers/usb/usbip/stub_tx.c) in the Linux Kernel before version     4.14.8, 4.9.71, 4.1.49, and 4.4.107 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer     dereference) via a specially crafted USB over IP packet. (CVE-2017-16914)

  - The walk_hugetlb_range function in mm/pagewalk.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.2 mishandles holes in     hugetlb ranges, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized kernel memory     via crafted use of the mincore() system call. (CVE-2017-16994)

  - The check_alu_op function in kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel through 4.4 allows local users to     cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging     incorrect sign extension. (CVE-2017-16995)

  - net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.4 does not require the CAP_NET_ADMIN     capability for new, get, and del operations, which allows local users to bypass intended access     restrictions because the nfnl_cthelper_list data structure is shared across all net namespaces.
    (CVE-2017-17448)

  - The __netlink_deliver_tap_skb function in net/netlink/af_netlink.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.4,     when CONFIG_NLMON is enabled, does not restrict observations of Netlink messages to a single net     namespace, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN     capability to sniff an nlmon interface for all Netlink activity on the system. (CVE-2017-17449)

  - net/netfilter/xt_osf.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.4 does not require the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability     for add_callback and remove_callback operations, which allows local users to bypass intended access     restrictions because the xt_osf_fingers data structure is shared across all net namespaces.
    (CVE-2017-17450)

  - The usb_destroy_configuration function in drivers/usb/core/config.c in the USB core subsystem in the Linux     kernel through 4.14.5 does not consider the maximum number of configurations and interfaces before     attempting to release resources, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds     write access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device. (CVE-2017-17558)

  - The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.14.7 allows 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. (CVE-2017-17741)

  - The Salsa20 encryption algorithm in the Linux kernel before 4.14.8 does 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. (CVE-2017-17805)

  - The HMAC implementation (crypto/hmac.c) in the Linux kernel before 4.14.8 does 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 buffer overflow by executing a crafted sequence of system calls that encounter a missing     SHA-3 initialization. (CVE-2017-17806)

  - The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.14.6 omitted an access-control check when adding a key to     the current task's default request-key keyring via the request_key() system call, allowing a local user     to use a sequence of crafted system calls to add keys to a keyring with only Search permission (not Write     permission) to that keyring, related to construct_get_dest_keyring() in security/keys/request_key.c.
    (CVE-2017-17807)

  - kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.8 ignores unreachable code, even though it would     still be processed by JIT compilers. This behavior, also considered an improper branch-pruning logic     issue, could possibly be used by local users for denial of service. (CVE-2017-17862)

  - crypto/pcrypt.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.13 mishandles freeing instances, allowing a local user     able to access the AF_ALG-based AEAD interface (CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_AEAD) and pcrypt     (CONFIG_CRYPTO_PCRYPT) to cause a denial of service (kfree of an incorrect pointer) or possibly have     unspecified other impact by executing a crafted sequence of system calls. (CVE-2017-18075)

  - The dm_get_from_kobject function in drivers/md/dm.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.3 allow local users to     cause a denial of service (BUG) by leveraging a race condition with __dm_destroy during creation and     removal of DM devices. (CVE-2017-18203)

  - The ocfs2_setattr function in fs/ocfs2/file.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.2 allows local users to     cause a denial of service (deadlock) via DIO requests. (CVE-2017-18204)

  - The madvise_willneed function in mm/madvise.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.4 allows local users to     cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by triggering use of MADVISE_WILLNEED for a DAX mapping.
    (CVE-2017-18208)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel before version 4.12 in the way the KVM module processed the trap     flag(TF) bit in EFLAGS during emulation of the syscall instruction, which leads to a debug exception(#DB)     being raised in the guest stack. A user/process inside a guest could use this flaw to potentially escalate     their privileges inside the guest. Linux guests are not affected by this. (CVE-2017-7518)

  - Linux Linux kernel version at least v4.8 onwards, probably well before contains a Insufficient input     validation vulnerability in bnx2x network card driver that can result in DoS: Network card firmware     assertion takes card off-line. This attack appear to be exploitable via An attacker on a must pass a very     large, specially crafted packet to the bnx2x card. This can be done from an untrusted guest VM..
    (CVE-2018-1000026)

  - In the Linux kernel through 3.2, the rds_message_alloc_sgs() function does 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). (CVE-2018-5332)

  - In the Linux kernel through 4.14.13, the rds_cmsg_atomic function in net/rds/rdma.c mishandles cases where     page pinning fails or an invalid address is supplied, leading to an rds_atomic_free_op NULL pointer     dereference. (CVE-2018-5333)

  - In the Linux kernel through 4.14.13, drivers/block/loop.c mishandles lo_release serialization, which     allows attackers to cause a denial of service (__lock_acquire use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified     other impact. (CVE-2018-5344)

  - The futex_requeue function in kernel/futex.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.15 might allow attackers to     cause a denial of service (integer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a     negative wake or requeue value. (CVE-2018-6927)

  - 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)

  - The unimac_mdio_probe function in drivers/net/phy/mdio-bcm-unimac.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.8     does not validate certain resource availability, which allows local users to cause a denial of service     (NULL pointer dereference). (CVE-2018-8043)

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

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3619-1 advisory.

  - Use-after-free vulnerability in the snd_pcm_info function in the ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel allows     attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2017-0861)

  - The Linux Kernel 2.6.32 and later are affected by a denial of service, by flooding the diagnostic port     0x80 an exception can be triggered leading to a kernel panic. (CVE-2017-1000407)

  - The acpi_ns_terminate() function in drivers/acpi/acpica/nsutils.c in the Linux kernel before 4.12 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-2017-11472)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability was found in network namespaces code affecting the Linux kernel before     4.14.11. The function get_net_ns_by_id() in net/core/net_namespace.c does not check for the net::count     value after it has found a peer network in netns_ids idr, which could lead to double free and memory     corruption. This vulnerability could allow an unprivileged local user to induce kernel memory corruption     on the system, leading to a crash. Due to the nature of the flaw, privilege escalation cannot be fully     ruled out, although it is thought to be unlikely. (CVE-2017-15129)

  - sound/core/seq_device.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service     (snd_rawmidi_dev_seq_free use-after-free and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a     crafted USB device. (CVE-2017-16528)

  - The get_endpoints function in drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.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-2017-16532)

  - The cx231xx_usb_probe function in drivers/media/usb/cx231xx/cx231xx-cards.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-2017-16536)

  - 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)

  - The ims_pcu_get_cdc_union_desc function in drivers/input/misc/ims-pcu.c in the Linux kernel through     4.13.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service (ims_pcu_parse_cdc_data out-of-bounds read and     system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device. (CVE-2017-16645)

  - drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dib0700_devices.c in the Linux kernel through 4.13.11 allows local users to     cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted     USB device. (CVE-2017-16646)

  - The usbnet_generic_cdc_bind function in drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.c in the Linux kernel through 4.13.11     allows local users to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and system crash) or possibly have     unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device. (CVE-2017-16649)

  - The qmi_wwan_bind function in drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c in the Linux kernel through 4.13.11 allows local     users to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and system crash) or possibly have unspecified     other impact via a crafted USB device. (CVE-2017-16650)

  - The vhci_hcd driver in the Linux Kernel before version 4.14.8 and 4.4.114 allows allows local attackers to     disclose kernel memory addresses. Successful exploitation requires that a USB device is attached over IP.
    (CVE-2017-16911)

  - The get_pipe() function (drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c) in the Linux Kernel before version 4.14.8, 4.9.71,     and 4.4.114 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a specially crafted USB     over IP packet. (CVE-2017-16912)

  - The stub_recv_cmd_submit() function (drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c) in the Linux Kernel before version     4.14.8, 4.9.71, and 4.4.114 when handling CMD_SUBMIT packets allows attackers to cause a denial of service     (arbitrary memory allocation) via a specially crafted USB over IP packet. (CVE-2017-16913)

  - The stub_send_ret_submit() function (drivers/usb/usbip/stub_tx.c) in the Linux Kernel before version     4.14.8, 4.9.71, 4.1.49, and 4.4.107 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer     dereference) via a specially crafted USB over IP packet. (CVE-2017-16914)

  - The walk_hugetlb_range function in mm/pagewalk.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.2 mishandles holes in     hugetlb ranges, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized kernel memory     via crafted use of the mincore() system call. (CVE-2017-16994)

  - The check_alu_op function in kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel through 4.4 allows local users to     cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging     incorrect sign extension. (CVE-2017-16995)

  - net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.4 does not require the CAP_NET_ADMIN     capability for new, get, and del operations, which allows local users to bypass intended access     restrictions because the nfnl_cthelper_list data structure is shared across all net namespaces.
    (CVE-2017-17448)

  - The __netlink_deliver_tap_skb function in net/netlink/af_netlink.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.4,     when CONFIG_NLMON is enabled, does not restrict observations of Netlink messages to a single net     namespace, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN     capability to sniff an nlmon interface for all Netlink activity on the system. (CVE-2017-17449)

  - net/netfilter/xt_osf.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.4 does not require the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability     for add_callback and remove_callback operations, which allows local users to bypass intended access     restrictions because the xt_osf_fingers data structure is shared across all net namespaces.
    (CVE-2017-17450)

  - The usb_destroy_configuration function in drivers/usb/core/config.c in the USB core subsystem in the Linux     kernel through 4.14.5 does not consider the maximum number of configurations and interfaces before     attempting to release resources, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds     write access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device. (CVE-2017-17558)

  - The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.14.7 allows 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. (CVE-2017-17741)

  - The Salsa20 encryption algorithm in the Linux kernel before 4.14.8 does 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. (CVE-2017-17805)

  - The HMAC implementation (crypto/hmac.c) in the Linux kernel before 4.14.8 does 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 buffer overflow by executing a crafted sequence of system calls that encounter a missing     SHA-3 initialization. (CVE-2017-17806)

  - The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.14.6 omitted an access-control check when adding a key to     the current task's default request-key keyring via the request_key() system call, allowing a local user     to use a sequence of crafted system calls to add keys to a keyring with only Search permission (not Write     permission) to that keyring, related to construct_get_dest_keyring() in security/keys/request_key.c.
    (CVE-2017-17807)

  - kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.8 ignores unreachable code, even though it would     still be processed by JIT compilers. This behavior, also considered an improper branch-pruning logic     issue, could possibly be used by local users for denial of service. (CVE-2017-17862)

  - crypto/pcrypt.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.13 mishandles freeing instances, allowing a local user     able to access the AF_ALG-based AEAD interface (CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_AEAD) and pcrypt     (CONFIG_CRYPTO_PCRYPT) to cause a denial of service (kfree of an incorrect pointer) or possibly have     unspecified other impact by executing a crafted sequence of system calls. (CVE-2017-18075)

  - The dm_get_from_kobject function in drivers/md/dm.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.3 allow local users to     cause a denial of service (BUG) by leveraging a race condition with __dm_destroy during creation and     removal of DM devices. (CVE-2017-18203)

  - The ocfs2_setattr function in fs/ocfs2/file.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.2 allows local users to     cause a denial of service (deadlock) via DIO requests. (CVE-2017-18204)

  - The madvise_willneed function in mm/madvise.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.4 allows local users to     cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by triggering use of MADVISE_WILLNEED for a DAX mapping.
    (CVE-2017-18208)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel before version 4.12 in the way the KVM module processed the trap     flag(TF) bit in EFLAGS during emulation of the syscall instruction, which leads to a debug exception(#DB)     being raised in the guest stack. A user/process inside a guest could use this flaw to potentially escalate     their privileges inside the guest. Linux guests are not affected by this. (CVE-2017-7518)

  - Linux Linux kernel version at least v4.8 onwards, probably well before contains a Insufficient input     validation vulnerability in bnx2x network card driver that can result in DoS: Network card firmware     assertion takes card off-line. This attack appear to be exploitable via An attacker on a must pass a very     large, specially crafted packet to the bnx2x card. This can be done from an untrusted guest VM..
    (CVE-2018-1000026)

  - In the Linux kernel through 3.2, the rds_message_alloc_sgs() function does 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). (CVE-2018-5332)

  - In the Linux kernel through 4.14.13, the rds_cmsg_atomic function in net/rds/rdma.c mishandles cases where     page pinning fails or an invalid address is supplied, leading to an rds_atomic_free_op NULL pointer     dereference. (CVE-2018-5333)

  - In the Linux kernel through 4.14.13, drivers/block/loop.c mishandles lo_release serialization, which     allows attackers to cause a denial of service (__lock_acquire use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified     other impact. (CVE-2018-5344)

  - The futex_requeue function in kernel/futex.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.15 might allow attackers to     cause a denial of service (integer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a     negative wake or requeue value. (CVE-2018-6927)

  - 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)

  - The unimac_mdio_probe function in drivers/net/phy/mdio-bcm-unimac.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.8     does not validate certain resource availability, which allows local users to cause a denial of service     (NULL pointer dereference). (CVE-2018-8043)

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

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

  - CVE-2018-1068: Fixed flaw in the implementation of     32-bit syscall interface for bridging. This allowed a     privileged user to arbitrarily write to a limited range     of kernel memory (bnc#1085107).

  - CVE-2017-18221: The __munlock_pagevec function allowed     local users to cause a denial of service (NR_MLOCK     accounting corruption) via crafted use of mlockall and     munlockall system calls (bnc#1084323).

  - CVE-2018-1066: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in     fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c:setup_ntlmv2_rsp() that allowed an     attacker controlling a CIFS server to kernel panic a     client that has this server mounted, because an empty     TargetInfo field in an NTLMSSP setup negotiation     response was mishandled during session recovery     (bnc#1083640).

  - CVE-2017-13166: Prevent elevation of privilege     vulnerability in the kernel v4l2 video driver     (bnc#1072865).

  - CVE-2017-16911: The vhci_hcd driver allowed local     attackers to disclose kernel memory addresses.
    Successful exploitation required that a USB device was     attached over IP (bnc#1078674).

  - CVE-2017-15299: The KEYS subsystem mishandled use of     add_key for a key that already exists but is     uninstantiated, which allowed local users to cause a     denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system     crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a     crafted system call (bnc#1063416).

  - CVE-2017-18208: The madvise_willneed function kernel     allowed local users to cause a denial of service     (infinite loop) by triggering use of MADVISE_WILLNEED     for a DAX mapping (bnc#1083494).

  - CVE-2018-7566: The ALSA sequencer core initializes the     event pool on demand by invoking snd_seq_pool_init()     when the first write happens and the pool is empty. A     user could have reset the pool size manually via ioctl     concurrently, which may have lead UAF or out-of-bound     access (bsc#1083483).

  - CVE-2017-18204: The ocfs2_setattr function allowed local     users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via DIO     requests (bnc#1083244).

  - CVE-2017-16644: The hdpvr_probe function allowed local     users to cause a denial of service (improper error     handling and system crash) or possibly have unspecified     other impact via a crafted USB device (bnc#1067118).

  - CVE-2018-6927: The futex_requeue function allowed     attackers to cause a denial of service (integer     overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact by     triggering a negative wake or requeue value     (bnc#1080757).

  - CVE-2017-16914: The 'stub_send_ret_submit()' function     allowed attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL     pointer dereference) via a specially crafted USB over IP     packet (bnc#1078669).

  - CVE-2016-7915: The hid_input_field function allowed     physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive     information from kernel memory or cause a denial of     service (out-of-bounds read) by connecting a device     (bnc#1010470).

  - CVE-2017-12190: The bio_map_user_iov and bio_unmap_user     functions did unbalanced refcounting when a SCSI I/O     vector had small consecutive buffers belonging to the     same page. The bio_add_pc_page function merged them into     one, but the page reference was never dropped. This     caused a memory leak and possible system lockup     (exploitable against the host OS by a guest OS user, if     a SCSI disk is passed through to a virtual machine) due     to an out-of-memory condition (bnc#1062568).

  - CVE-2017-16912: The 'get_pipe()' function allowed     attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds     read) via a specially crafted USB over IP packet     (bnc#1078673).

  - CVE-2017-16913: The 'stub_recv_cmd_submit()' function     when handling CMD_SUBMIT packets allowed attackers to     cause a denial of service (arbitrary memory allocation)     via a specially crafted USB over IP packet     (bnc#1078672).

  - CVE-2018-5332: 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: 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     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).

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 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed :

  - CVE-2018-1068: Fixed flaw in the implementation of     32-bit syscall interface for bridging. This allowed a     privileged user to arbitrarily write to a limited range     of kernel memory (bnc#1085107).

  - CVE-2017-18221: The __munlock_pagevec function allowed     local users to cause a denial of service (NR_MLOCK     accounting corruption) via crafted use of mlockall and     munlockall system calls (bnc#1084323).

  - CVE-2018-1066: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in     fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c:setup_ntlmv2_rsp() that allowed an     attacker controlling a CIFS server to kernel panic a     client that has this server mounted, because an empty     TargetInfo field in an NTLMSSP setup negotiation     response was mishandled during session recovery     (bnc#1083640).

  - CVE-2017-13166: Prevent elevation of privilege     vulnerability in the kernel v4l2 video driver     (bnc#1072865).

  - CVE-2017-16911: The vhci_hcd driver allowed local     attackers to disclose kernel memory addresses.
    Successful exploitation required that a USB device was     attached over IP (bnc#1078674).

  - CVE-2017-15299: The KEYS subsystem mishandled use of     add_key for a key that already exists but is     uninstantiated, which allowed local users to cause a     denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system     crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a     crafted system call (bnc#1063416).

  - CVE-2017-18208: The madvise_willneed function kernel     allowed local users to cause a denial of service     (infinite loop) by triggering use of MADVISE_WILLNEED     for a DAX mapping (bnc#1083494).

  - CVE-2018-7566: The ALSA sequencer core initializes the     event pool on demand by invoking snd_seq_pool_init()     when the first write happens and the pool is empty. A     user could have reset the pool size manually via ioctl     concurrently, which may have lead UAF or out-of-bound     access (bsc#1083483).

  - CVE-2017-18204: The ocfs2_setattr function allowed local     users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via DIO     requests (bnc#1083244).

  - CVE-2017-16644: The hdpvr_probe function allowed local     users to cause a denial of service (improper error     handling and system crash) or possibly have unspecified     other impact via a crafted USB device (bnc#1067118).

  - CVE-2018-6927: The futex_requeue function allowed     attackers to cause a denial of service (integer     overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact by     triggering a negative wake or requeue value     (bnc#1080757).

  - CVE-2017-16914: The 'stub_send_ret_submit()' function     allowed attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL     pointer dereference) via a specially crafted USB over IP     packet (bnc#1078669).

  - CVE-2016-7915: The hid_input_field function allowed     physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive     information from kernel memory or cause a denial of     service (out-of-bounds read) by connecting a device     (bnc#1010470).

  - CVE-2017-12190: The bio_map_user_iov and bio_unmap_user     functions did unbalanced refcounting when a SCSI I/O     vector had small consecutive buffers belonging to the     same page. The bio_add_pc_page function merged them into     one, but the page reference was never dropped. This     caused a memory leak and possible system lockup     (exploitable against the host OS by a guest OS user, if     a SCSI disk is passed through to a virtual machine) due     to an out-of-memory condition (bnc#1062568).

  - CVE-2017-16912: The 'get_pipe()' function allowed     attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds     read) via a specially crafted USB over IP packet     (bnc#1078673).

  - CVE-2017-16913: The 'stub_recv_cmd_submit()' function     when handling CMD_SUBMIT packets allowed attackers to     cause a denial of service (arbitrary memory allocation)     via a specially crafted USB over IP packet     (bnc#1078672).

  - CVE-2018-5332: 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: 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     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).

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 SP3 kernel was updated to 4.4.120 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed :

  - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability     in the v4l2 video driver. (bnc#1072865).

  - CVE-2017-15951: The KEYS subsystem did not correctly     synchronize the actions of updating versus finding a key     in the 'negative' state to avoid a race condition, which     allowed local users to cause a denial of service or     possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted     system calls (bnc#1062840 bnc#1065615).

  - CVE-2017-16644: The hdpvr_probe function in     drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-core.c allowed local users     to cause a denial of service (improper error handling     and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other     impact via a crafted USB device (bnc#1067118).

  - CVE-2017-16912: The 'get_pipe()' function     (drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c) allowed attackers to cause     a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a specially     crafted USB over IP packet (bnc#1078673).

  - CVE-2017-16913: The 'stub_recv_cmd_submit()' function     (drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c) when handling CMD_SUBMIT     packets allowed attackers to cause a denial of service     (arbitrary memory allocation) via a specially crafted     USB over IP packet (bnc#1078672).

  - CVE-2017-17975: Use-after-free in the usbtv_probe     function in drivers/media/usb/usbtv/usbtv-core.c allowed     attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering     failure of audio registration, because a kfree of the     usbtv data structure occurs during a usbtv_video_free     call, but the usbtv_video_fail label's code attempts to     both access and free this data structure (bnc#1074426).

  - CVE-2017-18174: The amd_gpio_remove function in     drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-amd.c calls the     pinctrl_unregister function, leading to a double free     (bnc#1080533).

  - CVE-2017-18208: The madvise_willneed function in     mm/madvise.c allowed local users to cause a denial of     service (infinite loop) by triggering use of     MADVISE_WILLNEED for a DAX mapping (bnc#1083494).

  - CVE-2018-1000026: A insufficient input validation     vulnerability in bnx2x network card driver could result     in DoS: Network card firmware assertion takes card     off-line. This attack appear to be exploitable via An     attacker on a must pass a very large, specially crafted     packet to the bnx2x card. This can be done from an     untrusted guest VM. (bnc#1079384).

  - CVE-2018-8087: Memory leak in the hwsim_new_radio_nl     function in drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c     allowed local users to cause a denial of service (memory     consumption) by triggering an out-of-array error case     (bnc#1085053).

  - CVE-2018-1068: Insufficient user provided offset     checking in the ebtables compat code allowed local     attackers to overwrite kernel memory and potentially     execute code. (bsc#1085107)

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 SP2 kernel was updated to 4.4.120 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed :

  - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability     in the v4l2 video driver was fixed. (bnc#1072865).

  - CVE-2017-15951: The KEYS subsystem did not correctly     synchronize the actions of updating versus finding a key     in the 'negative' state to avoid a race condition, which     allowed local users to cause a denial of service or     possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted     system calls (bnc#1062840 bnc#1065615).

  - CVE-2017-16644: The hdpvr_probe function in     drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-core.c allowed local users     to cause a denial of service (improper error handling     and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other     impact via a crafted USB device (bnc#1067118).

  - CVE-2017-16912: The 'get_pipe()' function     (drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c) allowed attackers to cause     a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a specially     crafted USB over IP packet (bnc#1078673).

  - CVE-2017-16913: The 'stub_recv_cmd_submit()' function     (drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c) when handling CMD_SUBMIT     packets allowed attackers to cause a denial of service     (arbitrary memory allocation) via a specially crafted     USB over IP packet (bnc#1078672).

  - CVE-2017-17975: Use-after-free in the usbtv_probe     function in drivers/media/usb/usbtv/usbtv-core.c allowed     attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or     possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering     failure of audio registration, because a kfree of the     usbtv data structure occurs during a usbtv_video_free     call, but the usbtv_video_fail label's code attempts to     both access and free this data structure (bnc#1074426).

  - CVE-2017-18208: The madvise_willneed function in     mm/madvise.c allowed local users to cause a denial of     service (infinite loop) by triggering use of     MADVISE_WILLNEED for a DAX mapping (bnc#1083494).

  - CVE-2018-8087: Memory leak in the hwsim_new_radio_nl     function in drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c     allowed local users to cause a denial of service (memory     consumption) by triggering an out-of-array error case     (bnc#1085053).

  - CVE-2018-1000026: A insufficient input validation     vulnerability in the bnx2x network card driver could     result in DoS: Network card firmware assertion takes     card off-line. This attack appear to be exploitable via     An attacker on a must pass a very large, specially     crafted packet to the bnx2x card. This can be done from     an untrusted guest VM. (bnc#1079384).

  - CVE-2018-1068: Insufficient user provided offset     checking in the ebtables compat code allowed local     attackers to overwrite kernel memory and potentially     execute code. (bsc#1085107)

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
112113	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3754-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
109646	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1172-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
109531	Debian DLA-1369-1 : linux security update (Spectre)	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
109517	Debian DSA-4187-1 : linux - security update (Spectre)	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
109360	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1080-1) (Spectre)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
108878	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3619-2)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
108842	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3619-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
108748	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0848-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
108705	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0834-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
108649	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0786-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
108648	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0785-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
108577	openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2018-292)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical

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