SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2021:1889-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 150401

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:1889-1 advisory.

- The 802.11 standard that underpins Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA, WPA2, and WPA3) and Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) doesn't require that received fragments be cleared from memory after (re)connecting to a network. Under the right circumstances, when another device sends fragmented frames encrypted using WEP, CCMP, or GCMP, this can be abused to inject arbitrary network packets and/or exfiltrate user data.
(CVE-2020-24586)

- The 802.11 standard that underpins Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA, WPA2, and WPA3) and Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) doesn't require that all fragments of a frame are encrypted under the same key. An adversary can abuse this to decrypt selected fragments when another device sends fragmented frames and the WEP, CCMP, or GCMP encryption key is periodically renewed. (CVE-2020-24587)

- The 802.11 standard that underpins Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA, WPA2, and WPA3) and Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) doesn't require that the A-MSDU flag in the plaintext QoS header field is authenticated.
Against devices that support receiving non-SSP A-MSDU frames (which is mandatory as part of 802.11n), an adversary can abuse this to inject arbitrary network packets. (CVE-2020-24588)

- An issue was discovered in the kernel in NetBSD 7.1. An Access Point (AP) forwards EAPOL frames to other clients even though the sender has not yet successfully authenticated to the AP. This might be abused in projected Wi-Fi networks to launch denial-of-service attacks against connected clients and makes it easier to exploit other vulnerabilities in connected clients. (CVE-2020-26139)

- An issue was discovered in the ALFA Windows 10 driver 6.1316.1209 for AWUS036H. The Wi-Fi implementation does not verify the Message Integrity Check (authenticity) of fragmented TKIP frames. An adversary can abuse this to inject and possibly decrypt packets in WPA or WPA2 networks that support the TKIP data- confidentiality protocol. (CVE-2020-26141)

- An issue was discovered on Samsung Galaxy S3 i9305 4.4.4 devices. The WEP, WPA, WPA2, and WPA3 implementations accept second (or subsequent) broadcast fragments even when sent in plaintext and process them as full unfragmented frames. An adversary can abuse this to inject arbitrary network packets independent of the network configuration. (CVE-2020-26145)

- An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 5.8.9. The WEP, WPA, WPA2, and WPA3 implementations reassemble fragments even though some of them were sent in plaintext. This vulnerability can be abused to inject packets and/or exfiltrate selected fragments when another device sends fragmented frames and the WEP, CCMP, or GCMP data-confidentiality protocol is used. (CVE-2020-26147)

- Use After Free vulnerability in nfc sockets in the Linux Kernel before 5.12.4 allows local attackers to elevate their privileges. In typical configurations, the issue can only be triggered by a privileged local user with the CAP_NET_RAW capability. (CVE-2021-23134)

- net/bluetooth/hci_request.c in the Linux kernel through 5.12.2 has a race condition for removal of the HCI controller. (CVE-2021-32399)

- In the Linux kernel before 5.12.4, net/bluetooth/hci_event.c has a use-after-free when destroying an hci_chan, aka CID-5c4c8c954409. This leads to writing an arbitrary value. (CVE-2021-33034)

- kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel through 5.12.7 enforces incorrect limits for pointer arithmetic operations, aka CID-bb01a1bba579. This can be abused to perform out-of-bounds reads and writes in kernel memory, leading to local privilege escalation to root. In particular, there is a corner case where the off reg causes a masking direction change, which then results in an incorrect final aux->alu_limit.
(CVE-2021-33200)

- The io_uring subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed the MAX_RW_COUNT limit to be bypassed in the PROVIDE_BUFFERS operation, which led to negative values being usedin mem_rw when reading /proc/<PID>/mem.
This could be used to create a heap overflow leading to arbitrary code execution in the kernel. It was addressed via commit d1f82808877b (io_uring: truncate lengths larger than MAX_RW_COUNT on provide buffers) (v5.13-rc1) and backported to the stable kernels in v5.12.4, v5.11.21, and v5.10.37. It was introduced in ddf0322db79c (io_uring: add IORING_OP_PROVIDE_BUFFERS) (v5.7-rc1). (CVE-2021-3491)

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1087082

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1133021

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1152457

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1152489

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1155518

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1156395

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1162702

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1164648

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1176564

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1177666

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178418

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178612

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179827

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179851

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1182378

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1182999

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1183346

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1183868

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1183873

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1183932

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1183947

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1184081

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1184082

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1184611

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1184855

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185428

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185497

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185589

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185606

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185645

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185677

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185680

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185696

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185703

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185725

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185758

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185859

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185861

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185863

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185898

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185899

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185911

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185938

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185987

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185988

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186061

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186285

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186320

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186439

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186441

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186460

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186498

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186501

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186573

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24586

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24587

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24588

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26139

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26141

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26145

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26147

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23134

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-32399

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33034

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33200

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3491

http://www.nessus.org/u?8a701758

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 150401

File Name: suse_SU-2021-1889-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/9/2021

Updated: 7/13/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3491

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cluster-md-kmp-rt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:dlm-kmp-rt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gfs2-kmp-rt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-devel-rt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-rt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-rt-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-rt_debug, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-rt_debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-source-rt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-syms-rt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ocfs2-kmp-rt, 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: 6/8/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/10/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-24586, CVE-2020-24587, CVE-2020-24588, CVE-2020-26139, CVE-2020-26141, CVE-2020-26145, CVE-2020-26147, CVE-2021-23134, CVE-2021-32399, CVE-2021-33034, CVE-2021-33200, CVE-2021-3491

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:1889-1