SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2020:1663-1)

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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2020:1663-1)

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Synopsis

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

Description

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

The following security bugs were fixed :

CVE-2020-0543: Fixed a side channel attack against special registers which could have resulted in leaking of read values to cores other than the one which called it. This attack is known as Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) or 'CrossTalk' (bsc#1154824).

CVE-2020-9383: Fixed an out-of-bounds read due to improper error condition check of FDC index (bsc#1165111).

CVE-2020-8992: Fixed an issue which could have allowed attackers to cause a soft lockup via a crafted journal size (bsc#1164069).

CVE-2020-8834: Fixed a stack corruption which could have lead to kernel panic (bsc#1168276).

CVE-2020-8649: Fixed a use-after-free in the vgacon_invert_region function in drivers/video/console/vgacon.c (bsc#1162931).

CVE-2020-8648: Fixed a use-after-free in the n_tty_receive_buf_common function in drivers/tty/n_tty.c (bsc#1162928).

CVE-2020-8647: Fixed a use-after-free in the vc_do_resize function in drivers/tty/vt/vt.c (bsc#1162929).

CVE-2020-8428: Fixed a use-after-free which could have allowed local users to cause a denial of service (bsc#1162109).

CVE-2020-7053: Fixed a use-after-free in the i915_ppgtt_close function in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c (bsc#1160966).

CVE-2020-2732: Fixed an issue affecting Intel CPUs where an L2 guest may trick the L0 hypervisor into accessing sensitive L1 resources (bsc#1163971).

CVE-2020-13143: Fixed an out-of-bounds read in gadget_dev_desc_UDC_store in drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c (bsc#1171982).

CVE-2020-12769: Fixed an issue which could have allowed attackers to cause a panic via concurrent calls to dw_spi_irq and dw_spi_transfer_one (bsc#1171983).

CVE-2020-12657: An a use-after-free in block/bfq-iosched.c (bsc#1171205).

CVE-2020-12656: Fixed an improper handling of certain domain_release calls leadingch could have led to a memory leak (bsc#1171219).

CVE-2020-12655: Fixed an issue which could have allowed attackers to trigger a sync of excessive duration via an XFS v5 image with crafted metadata (bsc#1171217).

CVE-2020-12654: Fixed an issue in he wifi driver which could have allowed a remote AP to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow (bsc#1171202).

CVE-2020-12653: Fixed an issue in the wifi driver which could have allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (bsc#1171195).

CVE-2020-12652: Fixed an issue which could have allowed local users to hold an incorrect lock during the ioctl operation and trigger a race condition (bsc#1171218).

CVE-2020-12464: Fixed a use-after-free due to a transfer without a reference (bsc#1170901).

CVE-2020-12114: Fixed a pivot_root race condition which could have allowed local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by corrupting a mountpoint reference counter (bsc#1171098).

CVE-2020-11669: Fixed an issue where arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_book3s.S did not have save/restore functionality for PNV_POWERSAVE_AMR, PNV_POWERSAVE_UAMOR, and PNV_POWERSAVE_AMOR (bnc#1169390).

CVE-2020-11609: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference due to improper handling of descriptors (bsc#1168854).

CVE-2020-11608: Fixed a NULL pointer dereferences via a crafted USB (bsc#1168829).

CVE-2020-11494: Fixed an issue which could have allowed attackers to read uninitialized can_frame data (bsc#1168424).

CVE-2020-10942: Fixed a kernel stack corruption via crafted system calls (bsc#1167629).

CVE-2020-10757: Fixed an issue where remaping hugepage DAX to anon mmap could have caused user PTE access (bsc#1172317).

CVE-2020-10751: Fixed an improper implementation in SELinux LSM hook where it was assumed that an skb would only contain a single netlink message (bsc#1171189).

CVE-2020-10732: Fixed kernel data leak in userspace coredumps due to uninitialized data (bsc#1171220).

CVE-2020-10720: Fixed a use-after-free read in napi_gro_frags() (bsc#1170778).

CVE-2020-10711: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference in SELinux subsystem which could have allowed a remote network user to crash the kernel resulting in a denial of service (bsc#1171191).

CVE-2020-10690: Fixed the race between the release of ptp_clock and cdev (bsc#1170056).

CVE-2019-9458: Fixed a use after free due to a race condition which could have led to privilege escalation of privilege (bsc#1168295).

CVE-2019-9455: Fixed a pointer leak due to a WARN_ON statement in a video driver. This could lead to local information disclosure with System execution privileges needed (bsc#1170345).

CVE-2019-3701: Fixed an issue in can_can_gw_rcv, which could cause a system crash (bsc#1120386).

CVE-2019-20812: Fixed an issue in prb_calc_retire_blk_tmo() which could have resulted in a denial of service (bsc#1172453).

CVE-2019-20810: Fixed a memory leak in due to not calling of snd_card_free (bsc#1172458).

CVE-2019-20096: Fixed a memory leak in __feat_register_sp() in net/dccp/feat.c, which could have caused denial of service (bsc#1159908).

CVE-2019-20095: Fixed an improper error-handling cases that did not free allocated hostcmd memory which was causing memory leak (bsc#1159909).

CVE-2019-20054: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference in drop_sysctl_table() in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c, related to put_links (bsc#1159910).

CVE-2019-19966: Fixed a use-after-free in cpia2_exit() which could have caused denial of service (bsc#1159841).

CVE-2019-19965: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference, due to mishandling of port disconnection during discovery (bsc#1159911).

CVE-2019-19770: Fixed a use-after-free in the debugfs_remove function (bsc#1159198).

CVE-2019-19768: Fixed a use-after-free in the __blk_add_trace function in kernel/trace/blktrace.c (bsc#1159285).

CVE-2019-19462: Fixed an issue which could have allowed local user to cause denial of service (bsc#1158265).

CVE-2019-19447: Fixed a user after free via a crafted ext4 filesystem image (bsc#1158819).

CVE-2019-19319: Fixed a user after free when a large old_size value is used in a memset call (bsc#1158021).

CVE-2019-19318: Fixed a use after free via a crafted btrfs image (bsc#1158026).

CVE-2019-19054: Fixed a memory leak in the cx23888_ir_probe() which could have allowed attackers to cause a denial of service (bsc#1161518).

CVE-2019-19045: Fixed a memory leak in which could have allowed attackers to cause a denial of service (bsc#1161522).

CVE-2019-19036: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference in btrfs_root_node (bsc#1157692).

CVE-2019-16994: Fixed a memory leak which might have caused denial of service (bsc#1161523).

CVE-2019-14897: Fixed a stack overflow in Marvell Wifi Driver (bsc#1157155).

CVE-2019-14896: Fixed a heap overflow in Marvell Wifi Driver (bsc#1157157).

CVE-2019-14615: Fixed an improper control flow in certain data structures which could have led to information disclosure (bsc#1160195).

CVE-2018-1000199: Fixed a potential local code execution via ptrace (bsc#1089895).

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 Server for SAP 15 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-2020-1663=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-2020-1663=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Live Patching 15 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Live-Patching-15-2020-1663=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-2020-1663=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-2020-1663=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 15 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HA-15-2020-1663=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 138272

File Name: suse_SU-2020-1663-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/9/2020

Updated: 1/13/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-default-man, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-obs-build, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-obs-build-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-syms, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-vanilla-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-vanilla-base-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-vanilla-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-vanilla-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:reiserfs-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:reiserfs-kmp-default-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/18/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/24/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000199, CVE-2019-14615, CVE-2019-14896, CVE-2019-14897, CVE-2019-16994, CVE-2019-19036, CVE-2019-19045, CVE-2019-19054, CVE-2019-19318, CVE-2019-19319, CVE-2019-19447, CVE-2019-19462, CVE-2019-19768, CVE-2019-19770, CVE-2019-19965, CVE-2019-19966, CVE-2019-20054, CVE-2019-20095, CVE-2019-20096, CVE-2019-20810, CVE-2019-20812, CVE-2019-3701, CVE-2019-9455, CVE-2019-9458, CVE-2020-0543, CVE-2020-10690, CVE-2020-10711, CVE-2020-10720, CVE-2020-10732, CVE-2020-10751, CVE-2020-10757, CVE-2020-10942, CVE-2020-11494, CVE-2020-11608, CVE-2020-11609, CVE-2020-11669, CVE-2020-12114, CVE-2020-12464, CVE-2020-12652, CVE-2020-12653, CVE-2020-12654, CVE-2020-12655, CVE-2020-12656, CVE-2020-12657, CVE-2020-12769, CVE-2020-13143, CVE-2020-2732, CVE-2020-7053, CVE-2020-8428, CVE-2020-8647, CVE-2020-8648, CVE-2020-8649, CVE-2020-8834, CVE-2020-8992, CVE-2020-9383