The resv_map_release function in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG) via a crafted application that makes mmap system calls and has a large pgoff argument to the remap_file_pages system call.

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz),     the core of any Linux operating system. The kernel     handles the basic functions of the operating system:
    memory allocation, process allocation, device input and     output, etc.Security Fix(es):A flaw named FragmentSmack     was found in the way the Linux kernel handled     reassembly of fragmented IPv4 and IPv6 packets. A     remote attacker could use this flaw to trigger time and     calculation expensive fragment reassembly algorithm by     sending specially crafted packets which could lead to a     CPU saturation and hence a denial of service on the     system.(CVE-2018-5391)Multiple out-of-bounds write     flaws were found in the way the Cherry Cymotion     keyboard driver, KYE/Genius device drivers, Logitech     device drivers, Monterey Genius KB29E keyboard driver,     Petalynx Maxter remote control driver, and Sunplus     wireless desktop driver handled HID reports with an     invalid report descriptor size. An attacker with     physical access to the system could use either of these     flaws to write data past an allocated memory     buffer.(CVE-2014-3184)The __get_data_block function in     fs/f2fs/data.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11 allows     local users to cause a denial of service (integer     overflow and loop) via crafted use of the open and     fallocate system calls with an FS_IOC_FIEMAP     ioctl.(CVE-2017-18257)netetfilter/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. This allows local users to     bypass intended access restrictions because the     xt_osf_fingers data structure is shared across all     network namespaces.(CVE-2017-17450)A denial of service     flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel, where a race     condition caused a NULL pointer dereference in the RDS     socket-creation code. A local attacker could use this     flaw to create a situation in which a NULL pointer     crashed the kernel.(CVE-2015-7990)An issue was     discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.19.9. The USB     subsystem mishandles size checks during the reading of     an extra descriptor, related to
    __usb_get_extra_descriptor in     drivers/usb/core/usb.c.(CVE-2018-20169)mm/memory.c in     the Linux kernel before 4.1.4 mishandles anonymous     pages, which allows local users to gain privileges or     cause a denial of service (page tainting) via a crafted     application that triggers writing to page     zero.(CVE-2015-3288)The ovl_setattr function in     fs/overlayfs/inode.c in the Linux kernel through 4.3.3     attempts to merge distinct setattr operations, which     allows local users to bypass intended access     restrictions and modify the attributes of arbitrary     overlay files via a crafted     application.(CVE-2015-8660)A flaw was found in the     Linux kernel where a local user with a shell account     can abuse the userfaultfd syscall when using hugetlbfs.
    A missing size check in hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte could     create an invalid inode variable, leading to a kernel     panic.(CVE-2017-15128)An integer overflow flaw was     found in the way the lzo1x_decompress_safe() function     of the Linux kernel's LZO implementation processed     Literal Runs. A local attacker could, in extremely rare     cases, use this flaw to crash the system or,     potentially, escalate their privileges on the     system.(CVE-2014-4608)It was found that Linux kernel's     ptrace subsystem did not properly sanitize the     address-space-control bits when the program-status word     (PSW) was being set. On IBM S/390 systems, a local,     unprivileged user could use this flaw to set     address-space-control bits to the kernel space, and     thus gain read and write access to kernel     memory.(CVE-2014-3534)A use-after-free flaw was found     in the Linux kernel's file system encryption     implementation. A local user could revoke keyring keys     being used for ext4, f2fs, or ubifs encryption, causing     a denial of service on the system.(CVE-2017-7374)The     usbip_recv_xbuff function in     drivers/usb/usbip/usbip_common.c in the Linux kernel     before 4.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial     of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly have     unspecified other impact via a crafted length value in     a USB/IP packet.(CVE-2016-3955)A flaw was found in the     patches used to fix the 'dirtycow' vulnerability     (CVE-2016-5195). An attacker, able to run local code,     can exploit a race condition in transparent huge pages     to modify usually read-only huge     pages.(CVE-2017-1000405)The aio_mount function in     fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel does not properly restrict     execute access, which makes it easier for local users     to bypass intended SELinux W^X policy     restrictions.(CVE-2016-10044)The Serial Attached SCSI     (SAS) implementation in the Linux kernel mishandles a     mutex within libsas. This allows local users to cause a     denial of service (deadlock) by triggering certain     error-handling code.(CVE-2017-18232)A use-after-free     vulnerability was found in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue     and other tcp_* functions. This condition could allow     an attacker to send an incorrect selective     acknowledgment to existing connections, possibly     resetting a connection.(CVE-2016-6828)The instruction     decoder in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the KVM subsystem     in the Linux kernel before 3.18-rc2 does not properly     handle invalid instructions, which allows guest OS     users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer     dereference and host OS crash) via a crafted     application that triggers (1) an improperly fetched     instruction or (2) an instruction that occupies too     many bytes. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of     an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-8480.(CVE-2014-8481)The     snd_compress_check_input function in     sound/core/compress_offload.c in the ALSA subsystem in     the Linux kernel before 3.17 does not properly check     for an integer overflow, which allows local users to     cause a denial of service (insufficient memory     allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact     via a crafted SNDRV_COMPRESS_SET_PARAMS ioctl     call.(CVE-2014-9904)The resv_map_release function in     mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel, through 4.15.7,     allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG)     via a crafted application that makes mmap system calls     and has a large pgoff argument to the remap_file_pages     system call.(CVE-2018-7740)

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

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz),     the core of any Linux operating system. The kernel     handles the basic functions of the operating system:
    memory allocation, process allocation, device input and     output, etc.Security Fix(es):The Linux kernel is     vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference in the     ext4/mballoc.c:ext4_process_freed_data() function. An     attacker could trick a legitimate user or a privileged     attacker could exploit this by mounting a crafted ext4     image to cause a kernel panic.(CVE-2018-1092)The     resv_map_release function in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux     kernel, through 4.15.7, allows local users to cause a     denial of service (BUG) via a crafted application that     makes mmap system calls and has a large pgoff argument     to the remap_file_pages system call.(CVE-2018-7740)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS 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-3910-2 advisory.

  - fs/f2fs/segment.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL     pointer dereference and panic) by using a noflush_merge option that triggers a NULL value for a     flush_cmd_control data structure. (CVE-2017-18241)

  - A flaw was found affecting the Linux kernel before version 4.17. By mmap()ing a FUSE-backed file onto a     process's memory containing command line arguments (or environment strings), an attacker can cause     utilities from psutils or procps (such as ps, w) or any other program which makes a read() call to the     /proc/<pid>/cmdline (or /proc/<pid>/environ) files to block indefinitely (denial of service) or for some     controlled time (as a synchronization primitive for other attacks). (CVE-2018-1120)

  - The function hso_get_config_data in drivers/net/usb/hso.c in the Linux kernel through 4.19.8 reads if_num     from the USB device (as a u8) and uses it to index a small array, resulting in an object out-of-bounds     (OOB) read that potentially allows arbitrary read in the kernel address space. (CVE-2018-19985)

  - The resv_map_release function in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 allows local users to     cause a denial of service (BUG) via a crafted application that makes mmap system calls and has a large     pgoff argument to the remap_file_pages system call. (CVE-2018-7740)

  - In PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115, the start time protection mechanism can be bypassed because fork() is     not atomic, and therefore authorization decisions are improperly cached. This is related to lack of uid     checking in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c. (CVE-2019-6133)

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-3910-1 advisory.

  - fs/f2fs/segment.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL     pointer dereference and panic) by using a noflush_merge option that triggers a NULL value for a     flush_cmd_control data structure. (CVE-2017-18241)

  - A flaw was found affecting the Linux kernel before version 4.17. By mmap()ing a FUSE-backed file onto a     process's memory containing command line arguments (or environment strings), an attacker can cause     utilities from psutils or procps (such as ps, w) or any other program which makes a read() call to the     /proc/<pid>/cmdline (or /proc/<pid>/environ) files to block indefinitely (denial of service) or for some     controlled time (as a synchronization primitive for other attacks). (CVE-2018-1120)

  - The function hso_get_config_data in drivers/net/usb/hso.c in the Linux kernel through 4.19.8 reads if_num     from the USB device (as a u8) and uses it to index a small array, resulting in an object out-of-bounds     (OOB) read that potentially allows arbitrary read in the kernel address space. (CVE-2018-19985)

  - The resv_map_release function in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 allows local users to     cause a denial of service (BUG) via a crafted application that makes mmap system calls and has a large     pgoff argument to the remap_file_pages system call. (CVE-2018-7740)

  - In PolicyKit (aka polkit) 0.115, the start time protection mechanism can be bypassed because fork() is     not atomic, and therefore authorization decisions are improperly cached. This is related to lack of uid     checking in polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c. (CVE-2019-6133)

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

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A security flaw was found in the ip_frag_reasm()     function in net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c in the Linux kernel     which can cause a later system crash in     ip_do_fragment(). With certain non-default, but     non-rare, configuration of a victim host, an attacker     can trigger this crash remotely, thus leading to a     remote denial of service.(CVE-2018-14641)

  - A flaw named FragmentSmack was found in the way the     Linux kernel handled reassembly of fragmented IPv4 and     IPv6 packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to     trigger time and calculation expensive fragment     reassembly algorithm by sending specially crafted     packets which could lead to a CPU saturation and hence     a denial of service on the system.(CVE-2018-5391)

  - The resv_map_release function in mm/hugetlb.c in the     Linux kernel, through 4.15.7, allows local users to     cause a denial of service (BUG) via a crafted     application that makes mmap system calls and has a     large pgoff argument to the remap_file_pages system     call. (CVE-2018-7740)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the way the     Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor emulates a preemption     timer for L2 guests when nested (=1) virtualization is     enabled. This high resolution timer(hrtimer) runs when     a L2 guest is active. After VM exit, the sync_vmcs12()     timer object is stopped. The use-after-free occurs if     the timer object is freed before calling sync_vmcs12()     routine. A guest user/process could use this flaw to     crash the host kernel resulting in a denial of service     or, potentially, gain privileged access to a system.
    (CVE-2019-7221)

  - An information leakage issue was found in the way Linux     kernel's KVM hypervisor handled page fault exceptions     while emulating instructions like VMXON, VMCLEAR,     VMPTRLD, and VMWRITE with memory address as an operand.
    It occurs if the operand is a mmio address, as the     returned exception object holds uninitialized stack     memory contents. A guest user/process could use this     flaw to leak host's stack memory contents to a guest.
    (CVE-2019-7222)

  - The xfs_dinode_verify function in     fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c in the Linux kernel can     cause a NULL pointer dereference in     xfs_ilock_attr_map_shared function. An attacker could     trick a legitimate user or a privileged attacker could     exploit this by mounting a crafted xfs filesystem image     to cause a kernel panic and thus a denial of service.
    (CVE-2018-10322)

  - The Linux kernel is vulnerable to a NULL pointer     dereference in the     ext4/mballoc.c:ext4_process_freed_data() function. An     attacker could trick a legitimate user or a privileged     attacker could exploit this by mounting a crafted ext4     image to cause a kernel panic.(CVE-2018-1092)

  - The Linux kernel is vulnerable to a NULL pointer     dereference in the ext4/xattr.c:ext4_xattr_inode_hash()     function. An attacker could trick a legitimate user or     a privileged attacker could exploit this to cause a     NULL pointer dereference with a crafted ext4 image.
    (CVE-2018-1094)

  - An issue was discovered in the XFS filesystem in     fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c in the Linux kernel. A     NULL pointer dereference may occur for a corrupted xfs     image after xfs_da_shrink_inode() is called with a NULL     bp. This can lead to a system crash and a denial of     service. (CVE-2018-13094)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel with files on     tmpfs and hugetlbfs. An attacker is able to bypass file     permissions on filesystems mounted with tmpfs/hugetlbs     to modify a file and possibly disrupt normal system     behavior. At this time there is an understanding there     is no crash or privilege escalation but the impact of     modifications on these filesystems of files in     production systems may have adverse affects.
    (CVE-2018-18397)

  - A use-after-free flaw can occur in the Linux kernel due     to a race condition between packet_do_bind() and     packet_notifier() functions called for an AF_PACKET     socket. An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw     to induce kernel memory corruption on the system,     leading to an unresponsive system or to a crash. Due to     the nature of the flaw, privilege escalation cannot be     fully ruled out. (CVE-2018-18559)

  - A flaw was found In the Linux kernel, through version     4.19.6, where a local user could exploit a     use-after-free in the ALSA driver by supplying a     malicious USB Sound device (with zero interfaces) that     is mishandled in usb_audio_probe in sound/usb/card.c.
    An attacker could corrupt memory and possibly escalate     privileges if the attacker is able to have physical     access to the system.(CVE-2018-19824)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before     4.18.11. The ipddp_ioctl function in     drivers/net/appletalk/ipddp.c allows local users to     obtain sensitive kernel address information by     leveraging CAP_NET_ADMIN to read the ipddp_route dev     and next fields via an SIOCFINDIPDDPRT ioctl call.
    (CVE-2018-20511)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the way the     Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor implements its device     control API. While creating a device via     kvm_ioctl_create_device(), the device holds a reference     to a VM object, later this reference is transferred to     the caller's file descriptor table. If such file     descriptor was to be closed, reference count to the VM     object could become zero, potentially leading to a     use-after-free issue. A user/process could use this     flaw to crash the guest VM resulting in a denial of     service issue or, potentially, gain privileged access     to a system. (CVE-2019-6974)

  - Since Linux kernel version 3.2, the mremap() syscall     performs TLB flushes after dropping pagetable locks. If     a syscall such as ftruncate() removes entries from the     pagetables of a task that is in the middle of mremap(),     a stale TLB entry can remain for a short time that     permits access to a physical page after it has been     released back to the page allocator and     reused.(CVE-2018-18281)

  - A division-by-zero in set_termios(), when debugging is     enabled, was found in the Linux kernel. When the     [io_ti] driver is loaded, a local unprivileged attacker     can request incorrect high transfer speed in the     change_port_settings() in the     drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.c so that the divisor value     becomes zero and causes a system crash resulting in a     denial of service. (CVE-2017-18360)

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

Security Fix(es) :

  - A flaw named FragmentSmack was found in the way the     Linux kernel handled reassembly of fragmented IPv4 and     IPv6 packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to     trigger time and calculation expensive fragment     reassembly algorithm by sending specially crafted     packets which could lead to a CPU saturation and hence a     denial of service on the system. (CVE-2018-5391)

  - kernel: out-of-bounds access in the show_timer function     in kernel/time /posix-timers.c (CVE-2017-18344)

  - kernel: Integer overflow in udl_fb_mmap() can allow     attackers to execute code in kernel space     (CVE-2018-8781)

  - kernel: MIDI driver race condition leads to a     double-free (CVE-2018-10902)

  - kernel: Missing check in inode_init_owner() does not     clear SGID bit on non-directories for non-members     (CVE-2018-13405)

  - kernel: AIO write triggers integer overflow in some     protocols (CVE-2015-8830)

  - kernel: Use-after-free in snd_pcm_info function in ALSA     subsystem potentially leads to privilege escalation     (CVE-2017-0861)

  - kernel: Handling of might_cancel queueing is not     properly pretected against race (CVE-2017-10661)

  - kernel: Salsa20 encryption algorithm does not correctly     handle zero- length inputs allowing local attackers to     cause denial of service (CVE-2017-17805)

  - kernel: Inifinite loop vulnerability in     madvise_willneed() function allows local denial of     service (CVE-2017-18208)

  - kernel: fuse-backed file mmap-ed onto process cmdline     arguments causes denial of service (CVE-2018-1120)

  - kernel: a NULL pointer dereference in dccp_write_xmit()     leads to a system crash (CVE-2018-1130)

  - kernel: drivers/block/loop.c mishandles lo_release     serialization allowing denial of service (CVE-2018-5344)

  - kernel: Missing length check of payload in
    _sctp_make_chunk() function allows denial of service     (CVE-2018-5803)

  - kernel: buffer overflow in     drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/wmi.c:wmi_set_ie() may     lead to memory corruption (CVE-2018-5848)

  - kernel: out-of-bound write in ext4_init_block_bitmap     function with a crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-10878)

  - kernel: Improper validation in bnx2x network card driver     can allow for denial of service attacks via crafted     packet (CVE-2018-1000026)

  - kernel: Information leak when handling NM entries     containing NUL (CVE-2016-4913)

  - kernel: Mishandling mutex within libsas allowing local     Denial of Service (CVE-2017-18232)

  - kernel: NULL pointer dereference in     ext4_process_freed_data() when mounting crafted ext4     image (CVE-2018-1092)

  - kernel: NULL pointer dereference in     ext4_xattr_inode_hash() causes crash with crafted ext4     image (CVE-2018-1094)

  - kernel: vhost: Information disclosure in     vhost/vhost.c:vhost_new_msg() (CVE-2018-1118)

  - kernel: Denial of service in resv_map_release function     in mm/hugetlb.c (CVE-2018-7740)

  - kernel: Memory leak in the sas_smp_get_phy_events     function in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c     (CVE-2018-7757)

  - kernel: Invalid pointer dereference in     xfs_ilock_attr_map_shared() when mounting crafted xfs     image allowing denial of service (CVE-2018-10322)

  - kernel: use-after-free detected in ext4_xattr_set_entry     with a crafted file (CVE-2018-10879)

  - kernel: out-of-bound access in ext4_get_group_info()     when mounting and operating a crafted ext4 image     (CVE-2018-10881)

  - kernel: stack-out-of-bounds write in     jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata function (CVE-2018-10883)

  - kernel: incorrect memory bounds check in     drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c (CVE-2018-10940)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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

Security Fix(es) :

* A flaw named FragmentSmack was found in the way the Linux kernel handled reassembly of fragmented IPv4 and IPv6 packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to trigger time and calculation expensive fragment reassembly algorithm by sending specially crafted packets which could lead to a CPU saturation and hence a denial of service on the system. (CVE-2018-5391)

* kernel: out-of-bounds access in the show_timer function in kernel/time/ posix-timers.c (CVE-2017-18344)

* kernel: Integer overflow in udl_fb_mmap() can allow attackers to execute code in kernel space (CVE-2018-8781)

* kernel: MIDI driver race condition leads to a double-free (CVE-2018-10902)

* kernel: Missing check in inode_init_owner() does not clear SGID bit on non-directories for non-members (CVE-2018-13405)

* kernel: AIO write triggers integer overflow in some protocols (CVE-2015-8830)

* kernel: Use-after-free in snd_pcm_info function in ALSA subsystem potentially leads to privilege escalation (CVE-2017-0861)

* kernel: Handling of might_cancel queueing is not properly pretected against race (CVE-2017-10661)

* kernel: Salsa20 encryption algorithm does not correctly handle zero-length inputs allowing local attackers to cause denial of service (CVE-2017-17805)

* kernel: Inifinite loop vulnerability in madvise_willneed() function allows local denial of service (CVE-2017-18208)

* kernel: fuse-backed file mmap-ed onto process cmdline arguments causes denial of service (CVE-2018-1120)

* kernel: a NULL pointer dereference in dccp_write_xmit() leads to a system crash (CVE-2018-1130)

* kernel: drivers/block/loop.c mishandles lo_release serialization allowing denial of service (CVE-2018-5344)

* kernel: Missing length check of payload in _sctp_make_chunk() function allows denial of service (CVE-2018-5803)

* kernel: buffer overflow in drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/ wmi.c:wmi_set_ie() may lead to memory corruption (CVE-2018-5848)

* kernel: out-of-bound write in ext4_init_block_bitmap function with a crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-10878)

* kernel: Improper validation in bnx2x network card driver can allow for denial of service attacks via crafted packet (CVE-2018-1000026)

* kernel: Information leak when handling NM entries containing NUL (CVE-2016-4913)

* kernel: Mishandling mutex within libsas allowing local Denial of Service (CVE-2017-18232)

* kernel: NULL pointer dereference in ext4_process_freed_data() when mounting crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-1092)

* kernel: NULL pointer dereference in ext4_xattr_inode_hash() causes crash with crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-1094)

* kernel: vhost: Information disclosure in vhost/vhost.c:vhost_new_msg() (CVE-2018-1118)

* kernel: Denial of service in resv_map_release function in mm/hugetlb.c (CVE-2018-7740)

* kernel: Memory leak in the sas_smp_get_phy_events function in drivers/scsi/ libsas/sas_expander.c (CVE-2018-7757)

* kernel: Invalid pointer dereference in xfs_ilock_attr_map_shared() when mounting crafted xfs image allowing denial of service (CVE-2018-10322)

* kernel: use-after-free detected in ext4_xattr_set_entry with a crafted file (CVE-2018-10879)

* kernel: out-of-bound access in ext4_get_group_info() when mounting and operating a crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-10881)

* kernel: stack-out-of-bounds write in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata function (CVE-2018-10883)

* kernel: incorrect memory bounds check in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c (CVE-2018-10940)

Red Hat would like to thank Juha-Matti Tilli (Aalto University - Department of Communications and Networking and Nokia Bell Labs) for reporting CVE-2018-5391; Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative for reporting CVE-2018-10902; Qualys Research Labs for reporting CVE-2018-1120;
Evgenii Shatokhin (Virtuozzo Team) for reporting CVE-2018-1130; and Wen Xu for reporting CVE-2018-1092 and CVE-2018-1094.

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-3083 advisory.

  - The get_rock_ridge_filename function in fs/isofs/rock.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.5 mishandles NM     (aka alternate name) entries containing \0 characters, which allows local users to obtain sensitive     information from kernel memory or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted isofs filesystem.
    (CVE-2016-4913)

  - Race condition in fs/timerfd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.10.15 allows local users to gain privileges or     cause a denial of service (list corruption or use-after-free) via simultaneous file-descriptor operations     that leverage improper might_cancel queueing. (CVE-2017-10661)

  - 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)

  - Integer overflow in the aio_setup_single_vector function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel 4.0 allows local     users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large AIO iovec. NOTE:
    this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2012-6701 regression. (CVE-2015-8830)

  - In the Linux Kernel before version 4.15.8, 4.14.25, 4.9.87, 4.4.121, 4.1.51, and 3.2.102, an error in the
    _sctp_make_chunk() function (net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c) when handling SCTP packets length can be     exploited to cause a kernel crash. (CVE-2018-5803)

  - Linux kernel before version 4.16-rc7 is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference in dccp_write_xmit()     function in net/dccp/output.c in that allows a local user to cause a denial of service by a number of     certain crafted system calls. (CVE-2018-1130)

  - The udl_fb_mmap function in drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_fb.c at the Linux kernel version 3.4 and up to and     including 4.15 has an integer-overflow vulnerability allowing local users with access to the udldrmfb     driver to obtain full read and write permissions on kernel physical pages, resulting in a code execution     in kernel space. (CVE-2018-8781)

  - The timer_create syscall implementation in kernel/time/posix-timers.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.8     doesn't properly validate the sigevent->sigev_notify field, which leads to out-of-bounds access in the     show_timer function (called when /proc/$PID/timers is read). This allows userspace applications to read     arbitrary kernel memory (on a kernel built with CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS and CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE).
    (CVE-2017-18344)

  - The Linux kernel, versions 3.9+, is vulnerable to a denial of service attack with low rates of specially     modified packets targeting IP fragment re-assembly. An attacker may cause a denial of service condition by     sending specially crafted IP fragments. Various vulnerabilities in IP fragmentation have been discovered     and fixed over the years. The current vulnerability (CVE-2018-5391) became exploitable in the Linux kernel     with the increase of the IP fragment reassembly queue size. (CVE-2018-5391)

  - 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)

  - 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 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)

  - The Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.15.9 mishandles a mutex within     libsas, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by triggering certain error-     handling code. (CVE-2017-18232)

  - 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)

  - In the function wmi_set_ie(), the length validation code does not handle unsigned integer overflow     properly. As a result, a large value of the 'ie_len' argument can cause a buffer overflow in all Android     releases from CAF (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) using the Linux Kernel.
    (CVE-2018-5848)

  - Memory leak in the sas_smp_get_phy_events function in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c in the Linux     kernel through 4.15.7 allows 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. (CVE-2018-7757)

  - The xfs_dinode_verify function in fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c in the Linux kernel through 4.16.3 allows     local users to cause a denial of service (xfs_ilock_attr_map_shared invalid pointer dereference) via a     crafted xfs image. (CVE-2018-10322)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. A local user can cause an out-of-bounds write and     a denial of service or unspecified other impact is possible by mounting and operating a crafted ext4     filesystem image. (CVE-2018-10878)

  - The ext4_fill_super function in fs/ext4/super.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.15 does not always     initialize the crc32c checksum driver, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service     (ext4_xattr_inode_hash NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a crafted ext4 image.
    (CVE-2018-1094)

  - Linux kernel vhost since version 4.8 does not properly initialize memory in messages passed between     virtual guests and the host operating system in the vhost/vhost.c:vhost_new_msg() function. This can allow     local privileged users to read some kernel memory contents when reading from the /dev/vhost-net device     file. (CVE-2018-1118)

  - A flaw was found affecting the Linux kernel before version 4.17. By mmap()ing a FUSE-backed file onto a     process's memory containing command line arguments (or environment strings), an attacker can cause     utilities from psutils or procps (such as ps, w) or any other program which makes a read() call to the     /proc//cmdline (or /proc//environ) files to block indefinitely (denial of service) or for some     controlled time (as a synchronization primitive for other attacks). (CVE-2018-1120)

  - 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 resv_map_release function in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 allows local users to     cause a denial of service (BUG) via a crafted application that makes mmap system calls and has a large     pgoff argument to the remap_file_pages system call. (CVE-2018-7740)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. A local user can cause a use-after-free in     ext4_xattr_set_entry function and a denial of service or unspecified other impact may occur by renaming a     file in a crafted ext4 filesystem image. (CVE-2018-10879)

  - 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)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem. A local user can cause an out-of-bounds write in     jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(), a denial of service, and a system crash by mounting and operating on a     crafted ext4 filesystem image. (CVE-2018-10883)

  - It was found that the raw midi kernel driver does not protect against concurrent access which leads to a     double realloc (double free) in snd_rawmidi_input_params() and snd_rawmidi_output_status() which are part     of snd_rawmidi_ioctl() handler in rawmidi.c file. A malicious local attacker could possibly use this for     privilege escalation. (CVE-2018-10902)

  - 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)

  - 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)

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

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

Security Fix(es) :

* A flaw named FragmentSmack was found in the way the Linux kernel handled reassembly of fragmented IPv4 and IPv6 packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to trigger time and calculation expensive fragment reassembly algorithm by sending specially crafted packets which could lead to a CPU saturation and hence a denial of service on the system. (CVE-2018-5391)

* kernel: out-of-bounds access in the show_timer function in kernel/time/ posix-timers.c (CVE-2017-18344)

* kernel: Integer overflow in udl_fb_mmap() can allow attackers to execute code in kernel space (CVE-2018-8781)

* kernel: MIDI driver race condition leads to a double-free (CVE-2018-10902)

* kernel: Missing check in inode_init_owner() does not clear SGID bit on non-directories for non-members (CVE-2018-13405)

* kernel: AIO write triggers integer overflow in some protocols (CVE-2015-8830)

* kernel: Use-after-free in snd_pcm_info function in ALSA subsystem potentially leads to privilege escalation (CVE-2017-0861)

* kernel: Handling of might_cancel queueing is not properly pretected against race (CVE-2017-10661)

* kernel: Salsa20 encryption algorithm does not correctly handle zero-length inputs allowing local attackers to cause denial of service (CVE-2017-17805)

* kernel: Inifinite loop vulnerability in madvise_willneed() function allows local denial of service (CVE-2017-18208)

* kernel: fuse-backed file mmap-ed onto process cmdline arguments causes denial of service (CVE-2018-1120)

* kernel: a NULL pointer dereference in dccp_write_xmit() leads to a system crash (CVE-2018-1130)

* kernel: drivers/block/loop.c mishandles lo_release serialization allowing denial of service (CVE-2018-5344)

* kernel: Missing length check of payload in _sctp_make_chunk() function allows denial of service (CVE-2018-5803)

* kernel: buffer overflow in drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/ wmi.c:wmi_set_ie() may lead to memory corruption (CVE-2018-5848)

* kernel: out-of-bound write in ext4_init_block_bitmap function with a crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-10878)

* kernel: Improper validation in bnx2x network card driver can allow for denial of service attacks via crafted packet (CVE-2018-1000026)

* kernel: Information leak when handling NM entries containing NUL (CVE-2016-4913)

* kernel: Mishandling mutex within libsas allowing local Denial of Service (CVE-2017-18232)

* kernel: NULL pointer dereference in ext4_process_freed_data() when mounting crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-1092)

* kernel: NULL pointer dereference in ext4_xattr_inode_hash() causes crash with crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-1094)

* kernel: vhost: Information disclosure in vhost.c:vhost_new_msg() (CVE-2018-1118)

* kernel: Denial of service in resv_map_release function in mm/hugetlb.c (CVE-2018-7740)

* kernel: Memory leak in the sas_smp_get_phy_events function in drivers/scsi/ libsas/sas_expander.c (CVE-2018-7757)

* kernel: Invalid pointer dereference in xfs_ilock_attr_map_shared() when mounting crafted xfs image allowing denial of service (CVE-2018-10322)

* kernel: use-after-free detected in ext4_xattr_set_entry with a crafted file (CVE-2018-10879)

* kernel: out-of-bound access in ext4_get_group_info() when mounting and operating a crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-10881)

* kernel: stack-out-of-bounds write in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata function (CVE-2018-10883)

* kernel: incorrect memory bounds check in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c (CVE-2018-10940)

Red Hat would like to thank Juha-Matti Tilli (Aalto University - Department of Communications and Networking and Nokia Bell Labs) for reporting CVE-2018-5391; Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative for reporting CVE-2018-10902; Qualys Research Labs for reporting CVE-2018-1120;
Evgenii Shatokhin (Virtuozzo Team) for reporting CVE-2018-1130; and Wen Xu for reporting CVE-2018-1092 and CVE-2018-1094.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 LTSS kernel was updated to 4.4.121 to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed :

CVE-2018-8781: The udl_fb_mmap function in drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_fb.c had an integer-overflow vulnerability that allowed local users with access to the udldrmfb driver to obtain full read and write permissions on kernel physical pages, resulting in a code execution in kernel space (bnc#1090643).

CVE-2018-10124: The kill_something_info function in kernel/signal.c might have allowed 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 have allowed local users to cause a denial of service by triggering an attempted use of the -INT_MIN value (bnc#1089608).

CVE-2017-18257: The __get_data_block function in fs/f2fs/data.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and loop) via crafted use of the open and fallocate system calls with an FS_IOC_FIEMAP ioctl. (bnc#1088241)

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-2018-8043: The unimac_mdio_probe function in drivers/net/phy/mdio-bcm-unimac.c did not validate certain resource availability, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) (bnc#1084829).

CVE-2018-7740: The resv_map_release function in mm/hugetlb.c allowed local users to cause a denial of service (BUG) via a crafted application that made mmap system calls and has a large pgoff argument to the remap_file_pages system call (bnc#1084353).

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)

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 LTSS kernel was updated to 4.4.121 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed :

  - CVE-2018-8781: The udl_fb_mmap function in     drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_fb.c had an integer-overflow     vulnerability that allowed local users with access to     the udldrmfb driver to obtain full read and write     permissions on kernel physical pages, resulting in a     code execution in kernel space (bnc#1090643).

  - CVE-2018-10124: The kill_something_info function in     kernel/signal.c might have allowed 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 have allowed local users to cause a     denial of service by triggering an attempted use of the
    -INT_MIN value (bnc#1089608).

  - CVE-2017-18257: The __get_data_block function in     fs/f2fs/data.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users     to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and loop)     via crafted use of the open and fallocate system calls     with an FS_IOC_FIEMAP ioctl. (bnc#1088241)

  - 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-2018-8043: The unimac_mdio_probe function in     drivers/net/phy/mdio-bcm-unimac.c did not validate     certain resource availability, which allowed local users     to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference)     (bnc#1084829).

  - CVE-2018-7740: The resv_map_release function in     mm/hugetlb.c allowed local users to cause a denial of     service (BUG) via a crafted application that made mmap     system calls and has a large pgoff argument to the     remap_file_pages system call (bnc#1084353).

  - 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)

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-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-2017-17975     Tuba Yavuz reported a use-after-free flaw in the     USBTV007 audio-video grabber driver. A local user could     use this for denial of service by triggering failure of     audio registration.

  - CVE-2017-18193     Yunlei He reported that the f2fs implementation does not     properly handle extent trees, allowing a local user to     cause a denial of service via an application with     multiple threads.

  - 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-2017-18218     Jun He reported a use-after-free flaw in the Hisilicon     HNS ethernet driver. A local user could use this for     denial of service.

  - CVE-2017-18222     It was reported that the Hisilicon Network Subsystem     (HNS) driver implementation does not properly handle     ethtool private flags. A local user could use this for     denial of service or possibly have other impact.

  - CVE-2017-18224     Alex Chen reported that the OCFS2 filesystem omits the     use of a semaphore and consequently has a race condition     for access to the extent tree during read operations in     DIRECT mode. A local user could use this for 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-2017-18257     It was reported that the f2fs implementation is prone to     an infinite loop caused by an integer overflow in the
    __get_data_block() function. A local user can use this     for denial of service via crafted use of the open and     fallocate system calls with an FS_IOC_FIEMAP ioctl.

  - CVE-2018-1065     The syzkaller tool found a NULL pointer dereference flaw     in the netfilter subsystem when handling certain     malformed iptables rulesets. A local user with the     CAP_NET_RAW or CAP_NET_ADMIN capability (in any user     namespace) could use this to cause a denial of service.
    Debian disables unprivileged user namespaces by default.

  - 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-2018-1093     Wen Xu reported that a crafted ext4 filesystem image     could trigger an out-of-bounds read in the     ext4_valid_block_bitmap() function. A local user able to     mount arbitrary filesystems could use this for denial of     service.

  - CVE-2018-1108     Jann Horn reported that crng_ready() does not properly     handle the crng_init variable states and the RNG could     be treated as cryptographically safe too early after     system boot.

  - 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-2018-7480     Hou Tao discovered a double-free flaw in the     blkcg_init_queue() function in block/blk-cgroup.c. A     local user could use this to cause a denial of service     or have other impact.

  - 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-2018-8087     A memory leak flaw was found in the hwsim_new_radio_nl()     function in the simulated radio testing tool driver for     mac80211, allowing a local user to cause a denial of     service.

  - 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-2018-10323     Wen Xu reported a NULL pointer dereference flaw in the     xfs_bmapi_write() function triggered when mounting and     operating a crafted xfs filesystem image. A local user     able to mount arbitrary filesystems could use this for     denial of service.

  - 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.

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 12 SP3 kernel was updated to 4.4.126 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed :

  - CVE-2018-1091: In the flush_tmregs_to_thread function in     arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c, a guest kernel crash can     be triggered from unprivileged userspace during a core     dump on a POWER host due to a missing processor feature     check and an erroneous use of transactional memory (TM)     instructions in the core dump path, leading to a denial     of service (bnc#1087231).

  - CVE-2018-7740: The resv_map_release function in     mm/hugetlb.c allowed local users to cause a denial of     service (BUG) via a crafted application that made mmap     system calls and has a large pgoff argument to the     remap_file_pages system call (bnc#1084353).

  - CVE-2018-8043: The unimac_mdio_probe function in     drivers/net/phy/mdio-bcm-unimac.c did not validate     certain resource availability, which allowed local users     to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference)     (bnc#1084829).

  - CVE-2017-18257: The __get_data_block function in     fs/f2fs/data.c allowed local users to cause a denial of     service (integer overflow and loop) via crafted use of     the open and fallocate system calls with an     FS_IOC_FIEMAP ioctl. (bnc#1088241)

  - 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).

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
124828	EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1505)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
123697	EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.4 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1229)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
122893	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3910-2)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
122892	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3910-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
122699	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1076)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
119187	Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20181030)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	high
118990	CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2018:3083)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
118770	Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2018-3083)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
118528	RHEL 7 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2018:3096)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
118525	RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2018:3083)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
118252	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1173-2)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
109647	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1173-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
109531	Debian DLA-1369-1 : linux security update (Spectre)	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
109518	Debian DSA-4188-1 : linux - security update (Spectre)	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
109517	Debian DSA-4187-1 : linux - security update (Spectre)	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
109310	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1048-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
109103	openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2018-377)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

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