http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154059/Slackware-Security-Advisory-Slackware-14.2-kernel-Updates.html

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=99253eb750fda6a644d5188fb26c43bad8d5a745

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/99253eb750fda6a644d5188fb26c43bad8d5a745

[debian-lts-announce] 20190814 [SECURITY] [DLA 1884-1] linux security update

[debian-lts-announce] 20190814 [SECURITY] [DLA 1885-1] linux-4.9 security update

https://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2017/12/04/40

https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/linux-kernel-4.9-inetcsklistenstop-gpf

https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/commit/baefcdc2f29923e7325ce4e1a72c3ff0a9800f32

20190814 [slackware-security] Slackware 14.2 kernel (SSA:2019-226-01)

DSA-4497

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

CVE-2017-18509

Denis Andzakovic reported a missing type check in the IPv4 multicast routing implementation. A user with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability (in any user namespace) could use this for denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2018-5995

ADLab of VenusTech discovered that the kernel logged the virtual addresses assigned to per-CPU data, which could make it easier to exploit other vulnerabilities.

CVE-2018-20836

chenxiang reported a race condition in libsas, the kernel subsystem supporting Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) devices, which could lead to a use-after-free. It is not clear how this might be exploited.

CVE-2018-20856

Xiao Jin reported a potential double-free in the block subsystem, in case an error occurs while initialising the I/O scheduler for a block device. It is not clear how this might be exploited.

CVE-2019-1125

It was discovered that most x86 processors could speculatively skip a conditional SWAPGS instruction used when entering the kernel from user mode, and/or could speculatively execute it when it should be skipped.
This is a subtype of Spectre variant 1, which could allow local users to obtain sensitive information from the kernel or other processes. It has been mitigated by using memory barriers to limit speculative execution. Systems using an i386 kernel are not affected as the kernel does not use SWAPGS.

CVE-2019-3882

It was found that the vfio implementation did not limit the number of DMA mappings to device memory. A local user granted ownership of a vfio device could use this to cause a denial of service (out-of-memory condition).

CVE-2019-3900

It was discovered that vhost drivers did not properly control the amount of work done to service requests from guest VMs. A malicious guest could use this to cause a denial of service (unbounded CPU usage) on the host.

CVE-2019-10207

The syzkaller tool found a potential null dereference in various drivers for UART-attached Bluetooth adapters. A local user with access to a pty device or other suitable tty device could use this for denial of service (BUG/oops).

CVE-2019-10638

Amit Klein and Benny Pinkas discovered that the generation of IP packet IDs used a weak hash function, 'jhash'. This could enable tracking individual computers as they communicate with different remote servers and from different networks. The 'siphash' function is now used instead.

CVE-2019-10639

Amit Klein and Benny Pinkas discovered that the generation of IP packet IDs used a weak hash function that incorporated a kernel virtual address. This hash function is no longer used for IP IDs, although it is still used for other purposes in the network stack.

CVE-2019-13631

It was discovered that the gtco driver for USB input tablets could overrun a stack buffer with constant data while parsing the device's descriptor. A physically present user with a specially constructed USB device could use this to cause a denial of service (BUG/oops), or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-13648

Praveen Pandey reported that on PowerPC (ppc64el) systems without Transactional Memory (TM), the kernel would still attempt to restore TM state passed to the sigreturn() system call. A local user could use this for denial of service (oops).

CVE-2019-14283

The syzkaller tool found a missing bounds check in the floppy disk driver. A local user with access to a floppy disk device, with a disk present, could use this to read kernel memory beyond the I/O buffer, possibly obtaining sensitive information.

CVE-2019-14284

The syzkaller tool found a potential division-by-zero in the floppy disk driver. A local user with access to a floppy disk device could use this for denial of service (oops).

(CVE ID not yet assigned)

Denis Andzakovic reported a possible use-after-free in the TCP sockets implementation. A local user could use this for denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

(CVE ID not yet assigned)

The netfilter conntrack subsystem used kernel addresses as user-visible IDs, which could make it easier to exploit other security vulnerabilities.

XSA-300

Julien Grall reported that Linux does not limit the amount of memory which a domain will attempt to baloon out, nor limits the amount of 'foreign / grant map' memory which any individual guest can consume, leading to denial of service conditions (for host or guests).

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 4.9.168-1+deb9u5~deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your linux-4.9 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.

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to fix security issues.

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

  - CVE-2015-8553     Jan Beulich discovered that CVE-2015-2150 was not     completely addressed. If a PCI physical function is     passed through to a Xen guest, the guest is able to     access its memory and I/O regions before enabling     decoding of those regions. This could result in a     denial-of-service (unexpected NMI) on the host.

  The fix for this is incompatible with qemu versions before 2.5.

  - CVE-2017-18509     Denis Andzakovic reported a missing type check in the     IPv4 multicast routing implementation. A user with the     CAP_NET_ADMIN capability (in any user namespace) could     use this for denial-of-service (memory corruption or     crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2018-5995     ADLab of VenusTech discovered that the kernel logged the     virtual addresses assigned to per-CPU data, which could     make it easier to exploit other vulnerabilities.

  - CVE-2018-20836     chenxiang reported a race condition in libsas, the     kernel subsystem supporting Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)     devices, which could lead to a use-after-free. It is not     clear how this might be exploited.

  - CVE-2018-20856     Xiao Jin reported a potential double-free in the block     subsystem, in case an error occurs while initialising     the I/O scheduler for a block device. It is not clear     how this might be exploited.

  - CVE-2019-1125     It was discovered that most x86 processors could     speculatively skip a conditional SWAPGS instruction used     when entering the kernel from user mode, and/or could     speculatively execute it when it should be skipped. This     is a subtype of Spectre variant 1, which could allow     local users to obtain sensitive information from the     kernel or other processes. It has been mitigated by     using memory barriers to limit speculative execution.
    Systems using an i386 kernel are not affected as the     kernel does not use SWAPGS.

  - CVE-2019-3882     It was found that the vfio implementation did not limit     the number of DMA mappings to device memory. A local     user granted ownership of a vfio device could use this     to cause a denial of service (out-of-memory condition).

  - CVE-2019-3900     It was discovered that vhost drivers did not properly     control the amount of work done to service requests from     guest VMs. A malicious guest could use this to cause a     denial-of-service (unbounded CPU usage) on the host.

  - CVE-2019-10207     The syzkaller tool found a potential null dereference in     various drivers for UART-attached Bluetooth adapters. A     local user with access to a pty device or other suitable     tty device could use this for denial-of-service     (BUG/oops).

  - CVE-2019-10638     Amit Klein and Benny Pinkas discovered that the     generation of IP packet IDs used a weak hash function,     'jhash'. This could enable tracking individual computers     as they communicate with different remote servers and     from different networks. The 'siphash' function is now     used instead.

  - CVE-2019-10639     Amit Klein and Benny Pinkas discovered that the     generation of IP packet IDs used a weak hash function     that incorporated a kernel virtual address. This hash     function is no longer used for IP IDs, although it is     still used for other purposes in the network stack.

  - CVE-2019-13631     It was discovered that the gtco driver for USB input     tablets could overrun a stack buffer with constant data     while parsing the device's descriptor. A physically     present user with a specially constructed USB device     could use this to cause a denial-of-service (BUG/oops),     or possibly for privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2019-13648     Praveen Pandey reported that on PowerPC (ppc64el)     systems without Transactional Memory (TM), the kernel     would still attempt to restore TM state passed to the     sigreturn() system call. A local user could use this for     denial-of-service (oops).

  - CVE-2019-14283     The syzkaller tool found a missing bounds check in the     floppy disk driver. A local user with access to a floppy     disk device, with a disk present, could use this to read     kernel memory beyond the I/O buffer, possibly obtaining     sensitive information.

  - CVE-2019-14284     The syzkaller tool found a potential division-by-zero in     the floppy disk driver. A local user with access to a     floppy disk device could use this for denial-of-service     (oops).

  - CVE-2019-15239     Denis Andzakovic reported a possible use-after-free in     the TCP sockets implementation. A local user could use     this for denial-of-service (memory corruption or crash)     or possibly for privilege escalation.

  - (CVE ID not yet assigned)

    The netfilter conntrack subsystem used kernel addresses     as user-visible IDs, which could make it easier to     exploit other security vulnerabilities.

  - XSA-300

    Julien Grall reported that Linux does not limit the     amount of memory which a domain will attempt to balloon     out, nor limits the amount of 'foreign / grant map'     memory which any individual guest can consume, leading     to denial of service conditions (for host or guests).

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

CVE-2017-18509

Denis Andzakovic reported a missing type check in the IPv4 multicast routing implementation. A user with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability (in any user namespace) could use this for denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2018-20836

chenxiang reported a race condition in libsas, the kernel subsystem supporting Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) devices, which could lead to a use-after-free. It is not clear how this might be exploited.

CVE-2019-1125

It was discovered that most x86 processors could speculatively skip a conditional SWAPGS instruction used when entering the kernel from user mode, and/or could speculatively execute it when it should be skipped.
This is a subtype of Spectre variant 1, which could allow local users to obtain sensitive information from the kernel or other processes. It has been mitigated by using memory barriers to limit speculative execution. Systems using an i386 kernel are not affected as the kernel does not use SWAPGS.

CVE-2019-3900

It was discovered that vhost drivers did not properly control the amount of work done to service requests from guest VMs. A malicious guest could use this to cause a denial of service (unbounded CPU usage) on the host.

CVE-2019-10207

The syzkaller tool found a potential null dereference in various drivers for UART-attached Bluetooth adapters. A local user with access to a pty device or other suitable tty device could use this for denial of service (BUG/oops).

CVE-2019-10638

Amit Klein and Benny Pinkas discovered that the generation of IP packet IDs used a weak hash function, 'jhash'. This could enable tracking individual computers as they communicate with different remote servers and from different networks. The 'siphash' function is now used instead.

CVE-2019-13631

It was discovered that the gtco driver for USB input tablets could overrun a stack buffer with constant data while parsing the device's descriptor. A physically present user with a specially constructed USB device could use this to cause a denial of service (BUG/oops), or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-14283

The syzkaller tool found a missing bounds check in the floppy disk driver. A local user with access to a floppy disk device, with a disk present, could use this to read kernel memory beyond the I/O buffer, possibly obtaining sensitive information.

CVE-2019-14284

The syzkaller tool found a potential division-by-zero in the floppy disk driver. A local user with access to a floppy disk device could use this for denial of service (oops).

(CVE ID not yet assigned)

Denis Andzakovic reported a possible use-after-free in the TCP sockets implementation. A local user could use this for denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

(CVE ID not yet assigned)

The netfilter conntrack subsystem used kernel addresses as user-visible IDs, which could make it easier to exploit other security vulnerabilities.

XSA-300

Julien Grall reported that Linux does not limit the amount of memory which a domain will attempt to balloon out, nor limits the amount of 'foreign / grant map' memory which any individual guest can consume, leading to denial of service conditions (for host or guests).

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 3.16.72-1.

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
127921	Debian DLA-1885-1 : linux-4.9 security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
127882	Slackware 14.2 : Slackware 14.2 kernel (SSA:2019-226-01)	Nessus	Slackware Local Security Checks	high
127867	Debian DSA-4497-1 : linux - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
127866	Debian DLA-1884-1 : linux security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

CVE-2017-18509

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CVSS v2.0

CVSS v3.0

Vulnerable Software

Configuration 1

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Tenable Plugins