The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.44 to receive various security and bugfixes.

These features were added :

  - mpt2sas: Added Reply Descriptor Post Queue (RDPQ) Array     support (bsc#854824).

  - mpt3sas: Bump mpt3sas driver version to 04.100.00.00     (bsc#854817).

Following security bugs were fixed :

  - CVE-2015-1805: iov overrun for failed atomic copy could     have lead to DoS or privilege escalation (bsc#933429).

  - CVE-2015-3212: A race condition in the way the Linux     kernel handled lists of associations in SCTP sockets     could have lead to list corruption and kernel panics     (bsc#936502).

  - CVE-2015-4036: DoS via memory corruption in vhost/scsi     driver (bsc#931988).

  - CVE-2015-4167: Linux kernel built with the UDF file     system(CONFIG_UDF_FS) support was vulnerable to a crash.
    It occurred while fetching inode information from a     corrupted/malicious udf file system image (bsc#933907).

  - CVE-2015-4692: DoS via NULL pointer dereference in     kvm_apic_has_events function (bsc#935542).

  - CVE-2015-5364: Remote DoS via flood of UDP packets with     invalid checksums (bsc#936831).

  - CVE-2015-5366: Remote DoS of EPOLLET epoll applications     via flood of UDP packets with invalid checksums     (bsc#936831).

Security issues already fixed in the previous update but not referenced by CVE :

  - CVE-2014-9728: Kernel built with the UDF file     system(CONFIG_UDF_FS) support were vulnerable to a crash     (bsc#933904).

  - CVE-2014-9729: Kernel built with the UDF file     system(CONFIG_UDF_FS) support were vulnerable to a crash     (bsc#933904).

  - CVE-2014-9730: Kernel built with the UDF file     system(CONFIG_UDF_FS) support were vulnerable to a crash     (bsc#933904).

  - CVE-2014-9731: Kernel built with the UDF file     system(CONFIG_UDF_FS) support were vulnerable to     information leakage (bsc#933896).

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 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

Following security bugs were fixed :

  - CVE-2015-6252: Possible file descriptor leak for each     VHOST_SET_LOG_FDcommand issued, this could eventually     wasting available system resources and creating a denial     of service (bsc#942367).

  - CVE-2015-5707: Possible integer overflow in the     calculation of total number of pages in     bio_map_user_iov() (bsc#940338).

  - CVE-2015-5364: The (1) udp_recvmsg and (2) udpv6_recvmsg     functions in the Linux kernel before 4.0.6 do not     properly consider yielding a processor, which allowed     remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system     hang) via incorrect checksums within a UDP packet flood     (bsc#936831).

  - CVE-2015-5366: The (1) udp_recvmsg and (2) udpv6_recvmsg     functions in the Linux kernel before 4.0.6 provide     inappropriate -EAGAIN return values, which allowed     remote attackers to cause a denial of service (EPOLLET     epoll application read outage) via an incorrect checksum     in a UDP packet, a different vulnerability than     CVE-2015-5364 (bsc#936831).

  - CVE-2015-1420: Race condition in the handle_to_path     function in fs/fhandle.c in the Linux kernel through     3.19.1 allowed local users to bypass intended size     restrictions and trigger read operations on additional     memory locations by changing the handle_bytes value of a     file handle during the execution of this function     (bsc#915517).

  - CVE-2015-1805: The (1) pipe_read and (2) pipe_write     implementations in fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel before     3.16 do not properly consider the side effects of failed
    __copy_to_user_inatomic and __copy_from_user_inatomic     calls, which allows local users to cause a denial of     service (system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a     crafted application, aka an 'I/O' vector array overrun.
    (bsc#933429)

  - CVE-2015-2150: Xen 3.3.x through 4.5.x and the Linux     kernel through 3.19.1 do not properly restrict access to     PCI command registers, which might allow local guest     users to cause a denial of service (non-maskable     interrupt and host crash) by disabling the (1) memory or     (2) I/O decoding for a PCI Express device and then     accessing the device, which triggers an Unsupported     Request (UR) response. (bsc#919463)

  - CVE-2015-2830: arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S in the Linux     kernel before 3.19.2 does not prevent the TS_COMPAT flag     from reaching a user-mode task, which might allow local     users to bypass the seccomp or audit protection     mechanism via a crafted application that uses the (1)     fork or (2) close system call, as demonstrated by an     attack against seccomp before 3.16. (bsc#926240)

  - CVE-2015-4700: The bpf_int_jit_compile function in     arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c in the Linux kernel before     4.0.6 allowed local users to cause a denial of service     (system crash) by creating a packet filter and then     loading crafted BPF instructions that trigger late     convergence by the JIT compiler (bsc#935705).

  - CVE-2015-4167: The udf_read_inode function in     fs/udf/inode.c in the Linux kernel before 3.19.1 did not     validate certain length values, which allowed local     users to cause a denial of service (incorrect data     representation or integer overflow, and OOPS) via a     crafted UDF filesystem (bsc#933907).

  - CVE-2015-0777: drivers/xen/usbback/usbback.c in     linux-2.6.18-xen-3.4.0 (aka the Xen 3.4.x support     patches for the Linux kernel 2.6.18), as used in the     Linux kernel 2.6.x and 3.x in SUSE Linux distributions,     allows guest OS users to obtain sensitive information     from uninitialized locations in host OS kernel memory     via unspecified vectors. (bsc#917830)

  - CVE-2014-9728: The UDF filesystem implementation in the     Linux kernel before 3.18.2 did not validate certain     lengths, which allowed local users to cause a denial of     service (buffer over-read and system crash) via a     crafted filesystem image, related to fs/udf/inode.c and     fs/udf/symlink.c (bsc#933904).

  - CVE-2014-9730: The udf_pc_to_char function in     fs/udf/symlink.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2     relies on component lengths that are unused, which     allowed local users to cause a denial of service (system     crash) via a crafted UDF filesystem image (bsc#933904).

  - CVE-2014-9729: The udf_read_inode function in     fs/udf/inode.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 did not     ensure a certain data-structure size consistency, which     allowed local users to cause a denial of service (system     crash) via a crafted UDF filesystem image (bsc#933904).

  - CVE-2014-9731: The UDF filesystem implementation in the     Linux kernel before 3.18.2 did not ensure that space is     available for storing a symlink target's name along with     a trailing \0 character, which allowed local users to     obtain sensitive information via a crafted filesystem     image, related to fs/udf/symlink.c and fs/udf/unicode.c     (bsc#933896).

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 openSUSE 13.1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

Following security bugs were fixed :

  - CVE-2016-0728: A reference leak in keyring handling with     join_session_keyring() could lead to local attackers     gain root privileges. (bsc#962075).

  - CVE-2015-7550: A local user could have triggered a race     between read and revoke in keyctl (bnc#958951).

  - CVE-2015-8569: The (1) pptp_bind and (2) pptp_connect     functions in drivers/net/ppp/pptp.c in the Linux kernel     did not verify an address length, which allowed local     users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory     and bypass the KASLR protection mechanism via a crafted     application (bnc#959190).

  - CVE-2015-8543: The networking implementation in the     Linux kernel did not validate protocol identifiers for     certain protocol families, which allowed local users to     cause a denial of service (NULL function pointer     dereference and system crash) or possibly gain     privileges by leveraging CLONE_NEWUSER support to     execute a crafted SOCK_RAW application (bnc#958886).

  - CVE-2014-8989: The Linux kernel did not properly     restrict dropping of supplemental group memberships in     certain namespace scenarios, which allowed local users     to bypass intended file permissions by leveraging a     POSIX ACL containing an entry for the group category     that is more restrictive than the entry for the other     category, aka a 'negative groups' issue, related to     kernel/groups.c, kernel/uid16.c, and     kernel/user_namespace.c (bnc#906545).

  - CVE-2015-5157: arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S in the Linux     kernel on the x86_64 platform mishandles IRET faults in     processing NMIs that occurred during userspace     execution, which might allow local users to gain     privileges by triggering an NMI (bnc#937969).

  - CVE-2015-7799: The slhc_init function in     drivers/net/slip/slhc.c in the Linux kernel through     4.2.3 did not ensure that certain slot numbers are     valid, which allowed local users to cause a denial of     service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via     a crafted PPPIOCSMAXCID ioctl call (bnc#949936).

  - CVE-2015-8104: The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel     through 4.2.6, and Xen 4.3.x through 4.6.x, allowed     guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS     panic or hang) by triggering many #DB (aka Debug)     exceptions, related to svm.c (bnc#954404).

  - CVE-2015-5307: The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel     through 4.2.6, and Xen 4.3.x through 4.6.x, allowed     guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS     panic or hang) by triggering many #AC (aka Alignment     Check) exceptions, related to svm.c and vmx.c     (bnc#953527).

  - CVE-2014-9529: Race condition in the key_gc_unused_keys     function in security/keys/gc.c in the Linux kernel     allowed local users to cause a denial of service (memory     corruption or panic) or possibly have unspecified other     impact via keyctl commands that trigger access to a key     structure member during garbage collection of a key     (bnc#912202).

  - CVE-2015-7990: Race condition in the rds_sendmsg     function in net/rds/sendmsg.c in the Linux kernel     allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL     pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have     unspecified other impact by using a socket that was not     properly bound. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because     of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-6937 (bnc#952384     953052).

  - CVE-2015-6937: The __rds_conn_create function in     net/rds/connection.c in the Linux kernel allowed local     users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer     dereference and system crash) or possibly have     unspecified other impact by using a socket that was not     properly bound (bnc#945825).

  - CVE-2015-7885: The dgnc_mgmt_ioctl function in     drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_mgmt.c in the Linux kernel     through 4.3.3 did not initialize a certain structure     member, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive     information from kernel memory via a crafted application     (bnc#951627).

  - CVE-2015-8215: net/ipv6/addrconf.c in the IPv6 stack in     the Linux kernel did not validate attempted changes to     the MTU value, which allowed context-dependent attackers     to cause a denial of service (packet loss) via a value     that is (1) smaller than the minimum compliant value or     (2) larger than the MTU of an interface, as demonstrated     by a Router Advertisement (RA) message that is not     validated by a daemon, a different vulnerability than     CVE-2015-0272. NOTE: the scope of CVE-2015-0272 is     limited to the NetworkManager product (bnc#955354).

  - CVE-2015-8767: A case can occur when sctp_accept() is     called by the user during a heartbeat timeout event     after the 4-way handshake. Since sctp_assoc_migrate()     changes both assoc->base.sk and assoc->ep, the     bh_sock_lock in sctp_generate_heartbeat_event() will be     taken with the listening socket but released with the     new association socket. The result is a deadlock on any     future attempts to take the listening socket lock.
    (bsc#961509)

  - CVE-2015-8575: Validate socket address length in     sco_sock_bind() to prevent information leak     (bsc#959399).

  - CVE-2015-8551, CVE-2015-8552: xen/pciback: For     XEN_PCI_OP_disable_msi[|x] only disable if device has     MSI(X) enabled (bsc#957990).

  - CVE-2015-8550: Compiler optimizations in the XEN PV     backend drivers could have lead to double fetch     vulnerabilities, causing denial of service or arbitrary     code execution (depending on the configuration)     (bsc#957988).

The following non-security bugs were fixed :

  - ALSA: hda - Disable 64bit address for Creative HDA     controllers (bnc#814440).

  - ALSA: hda - Fix noise problems on Thinkpad T440s     (boo#958504).

  - Input: aiptek - fix crash on detecting device without     endpoints (bnc#956708).

  - KEYS: Make /proc/keys unconditional if CONFIG_KEYS=y     (boo#956934).

  - KVM: x86: update masterclock values on TSC writes     (bsc#961739).

  - NFS: Fix a NULL pointer dereference of migration     recovery ops for v4.2 client (bsc#960839).

  - apparmor: allow SYS_CAP_RESOURCE to be sufficient to     prlimit another task (bsc#921949).

  - blktap: also call blkif_disconnect() when frontend     switched to closed (bsc#952976).

  - blktap: refine mm tracking (bsc#952976).

  - cdrom: Random writing support for BD-RE media     (bnc#959568).

  - genksyms: Handle string literals with spaces in     reference files (bsc#958510).

  - ipv4: Do not increase PMTU with Datagram Too Big message     (bsc#955224).

  - ipv6: distinguish frag queues by device for multicast     and link-local packets (bsc#955422).

  - ipv6: fix tunnel error handling (bsc#952579).

  - route: Use ipv4_mtu instead of raw rt_pmtu (bsc#955224).

  - uas: Add response iu handling (bnc#954138).

  - usbvision fix overflow of interfaces array (bnc#950998).

  - x86/evtchn: make use of PHYSDEVOP_map_pirq.

  - xen/pciback: Do not allow MSI-X ops if     PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY is not set (bsc#957990 XSA-157).

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
85180	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel (SUSE-SU-2015:1324-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	8/3/2015	1/6/2021	high
86290	SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : kernel-source (SUSE-SU-2015:1678-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	10/6/2015	1/6/2021	high
88545	openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-124)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	2/3/2016	1/19/2021	high

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