SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : Linux Azure Kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:2068-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 127772

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Azure kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed :

CVE-2018-20855: An issue was discovered in create_qp_common, mlx5_ib_create_qp_resp was never initialized, resulting in a leak of stack memory to userspace. (bnc#bsc#1103991)

CVE-2019-1125: Fix Spectre V1 variant via swapgs: Exclude ATOMs from speculation through SWAPGS (bsc#1139358).

CVE-2019-14284: In the Linux kernel, drivers/block/floppy.c allowed a denial of service by setup_format_params division-by-zero.
(bnc#bsc#1143189)

CVE-2019-14283: In the Linux kernel, set_geometry in drivers/block/floppy.c did not validate the sect and head fields, as demonstrated by an integer overflow and out-of-bounds read. It can be triggered by an unprivileged local user when a floppy disk has been inserted. NOTE: QEMU creates the floppy device by default.
(bsc#1143191)

CVE-2019-11810: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel A NULL pointer dereference can occur when megasas_create_frame_pool() fails in megasas_alloc_cmds() in drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c.
This causes a Denial of Service, related to a use-after-free.
(bsc#1134399)

CVE-2019-13648: In the Linux kernel on the powerpc platform, when hardware transactional memory was disabled, a local user can cause a denial of service via a sigreturn() system call that sends a crafted signal frame. (bnc#1142265)

CVE-2019-13631: In parse_hid_report_descriptor, a malicious usb device could send an hid: report that triggered an out-of-bounds write during generation of debugging messages. (bnc#1142023)

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.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Public-Cloud-15-2019-2068=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Open Buildservice Development Tools 15-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-OBS-15-SP1-2019-2068=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 127772

File Name: suse_SU-2019-2068-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 2/18/2020

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14283

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cluster-md-kmp-azure, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cluster-md-kmp-azure-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dlm-kmp-azure, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dlm-kmp-azure-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gfs2-kmp-azure, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gfs2-kmp-azure-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-azure, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-azure-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-azure-base-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-azure-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-azure-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-azure-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-azure-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-azure-extra, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-azure-extra-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-azure-livepatch, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-syms-azure, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kselftests-kmp-azure, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kselftests-kmp-azure-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ocfs2-kmp-azure, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ocfs2-kmp-azure-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:reiserfs-kmp-azure, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:reiserfs-kmp-azure-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/7/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-20855, CVE-2019-1125, CVE-2019-11810, CVE-2019-13631, CVE-2019-13648, CVE-2019-14283, CVE-2019-14284

Detections

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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : Linux Azure Kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:2068-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 127772

Synopsis

Description

Solution

See Also

Plugin Details

Risk Information

VPR

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

Vulnerability Information

Reference Information