Security Fix(es) :

  - A security flaw was found in the Linux kernel in the     mark_source_chains() function in     'net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c'. It is possible for a     user-supplied 'ipt_entry' structure to have a large     'next_offset' field. This field is not bounds checked     prior to writing to a counter value at the supplied     offset. (CVE-2016-3134, Important)

  - A flaw was discovered in processing setsockopt for 32     bit processes on 64 bit systems. This flaw will allow     attackers to alter arbitrary kernel memory when     unloading a kernel module. This action is usually     restricted to root-privileged users but can also be     leveraged if the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_USER_NS     and CONFIG_NET_NS and the user is granted elevated     privileges. (CVE-2016-4997, Important)

  - An out-of-bounds heap memory access leading to a Denial     of Service, heap disclosure, or further impact was found     in setsockopt(). The function call is normally     restricted to root, however some processes with     cap_sys_admin may also be able to trigger this flaw in     privileged container environments. (CVE-2016-4998,     Moderate)

Bug Fix(es) :

  - In some cases, running the ipmitool command caused a     kernel panic due to a race condition in the ipmi message     handler. This update fixes the race condition, and the     kernel panic no longer occurs in the described scenario.

  - Previously, running I/O-intensive operations in some     cases caused the system to terminate unexpectedly after     a NULL pointer dereference in the kernel. With this     update, a set of patches has been applied to the 3w-9xxx     and 3w-sas drivers that fix this bug. As a result, the     system no longer crashes in the described scenario.

  - Previously, the Stream Control Transmission Protocol     (SCTP) sockets did not inherit the SELinux labels     properly. As a consequence, the sockets were labeled     with the unlabeled_t SELinux type which caused SCTP     connections to fail. The underlying source code has been     modified, and SCTP connections now works as expected.

  - Previously, the bnx2x driver waited for transmission     completions when recovering from a parity event, which     substantially increased the recovery time. With this     update, bnx2x does not wait for transmission completion     in the described circumstances. As a result, the     recovery of bnx2x after a parity event now takes less     time.

Enhancement(s) :

  - With this update, the audit subsystem enables filtering     of processes by name besides filtering by PID. Users can     now audit by executable name (with the '-F     exe=<path-to-executable>' option), which allows     expression of many new audit rules. This functionality     can be used to create events when specific applications     perform a syscall.

  - With this update, the Nonvolatile Memory Express (NVMe)     and the multi- queue block layer (blk_mq) have been     upgraded to the Linux 4.5 upstream version. Previously,     a race condition between timeout and freeing request in     blk_mq occurred, which could affect the     blk_mq_tag_to_rq() function and consequently a kernel     oops could occur. The provided patch fixes this race     condition by updating the tags with the active request.
    The patch simplifies blk_mq_tag_to_rq() and ensures that     the two requests are not active at the same time.

  - The Hyper-V storage driver (storvsc) has been upgraded     from upstream. This update provides moderate performance     improvement of I/O operations when using storvscr for     certain workloads.

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-3619 advisory.

    - netfilter: x_tables: make sure e->next_offset covers remaining blob size (Florian Westphal)  [Orabug:
    24682076]  {CVE-2016-4997} {CVE-2016-4998}
    - netfilter: x_tables: validate e->target_offset early (Florian Westphal)  [Orabug: 24682076]     {CVE-2016-4997} {CVE-2016-4998}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed :

  - CVE-2016-3955: The usbip_recv_xbuff function in     drivers/usb/usbip/usbip_common.c in the Linux kernel     allowed 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     (bnc#975945).

  - CVE-2016-4998: The IPT_SO_SET_REPLACE setsockopt     implementation in the netfilter subsystem in the Linux     kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service     (out-of-bounds read) or possibly obtain sensitive     information from kernel heap memory by leveraging     in-container root access to provide a crafted offset     value that leads to crossing a ruleset blob boundary     (bnc#986365).

  - CVE-2015-7513: arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel     did not reset the PIT counter values during state     restoration, which allowed guest OS users to cause a     denial of service (divide-by-zero error and host OS     crash) via a zero value, related to the     kvm_vm_ioctl_set_pit and kvm_vm_ioctl_set_pit2 functions     (bnc#960689).

  - CVE-2013-4312: The Linux kernel allowed local users to     bypass file-descriptor limits and cause a denial of     service (memory consumption) by sending each descriptor     over a UNIX socket before closing it, related to     net/unix/af_unix.c and net/unix/garbage.c (bnc#839104).

  - CVE-2016-4997: The compat IPT_SO_SET_REPLACE setsockopt     implementation in the netfilter subsystem in the Linux     kernel allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a     denial of service (memory corruption) by leveraging     in-container root access to provide a crafted offset     value that triggers an unintended decrement     (bnc#986362).

  - CVE-2016-5829: Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in     the hiddev_ioctl_usage function in     drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c in the Linux kernel allow     local users to cause a denial of service or possibly     have unspecified other impact via a crafted (1)     HIDIOCGUSAGES or (2) HIDIOCSUSAGES ioctl call     (bnc#986572).

  - CVE-2016-4470: The key_reject_and_link function in     security/keys/key.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure     that a certain data structure was initialized, which     allowed local users to cause a denial of service (system     crash) via vectors involving a crafted keyctl request2     command (bnc#984755).

  - CVE-2016-5244: The rds_inc_info_copy function in     net/rds/recv.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a     certain structure member, which allowed remote attackers     to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory     by reading an RDS message (bnc#983213).

  - CVE-2016-1583: The ecryptfs_privileged_open function in     fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c in the Linux kernel allowed local     users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service     (stack memory consumption) via vectors involving crafted     mmap calls for /proc pathnames, leading to recursive     pagefault handling (bnc#983143).

  - CVE-2016-4913: The get_rock_ridge_filename function in     fs/isofs/rock.c in the Linux kernel mishandled NM (aka     alternate name) entries containing \0 characters, which     allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from     kernel memory or possibly have unspecified other impact     via a crafted isofs filesystem (bnc#980725).

  - CVE-2016-4580: The x25_negotiate_facilities function in     net/x25/x25_facilities.c in the Linux kernel did not     properly initialize a certain data structure, which     allowed attackers to obtain sensitive information from     kernel stack memory via an X.25 Call Request     (bnc#981267).

  - CVE-2016-4805: Use-after-free vulnerability in     drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c in the Linux kernel     allowed local users to cause a denial of service (memory     corruption and system crash, or spinlock) or possibly     have unspecified other impact by removing a network     namespace, related to the ppp_register_net_channel and     ppp_unregister_channel functions (bnc#980371).

  - CVE-2016-0758: Integer overflow in lib/asn1_decoder.c in     the Linux kernel allowed local users to gain privileges     via crafted ASN.1 data (bnc#979867).

  - CVE-2015-7833: The usbvision driver in the Linux kernel     allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial     of service (panic) via a nonzero bInterfaceNumber value     in a USB device descriptor (bnc#950998).

  - CVE-2016-2187: The gtco_probe function in     drivers/input/tablet/gtco.c in the Linux kernel allowed     physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of     service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via     a crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor     (bnc#971944).

  - CVE-2016-4482: The proc_connectinfo function in     drivers/usb/core/devio.c in the Linux kernel did not     initialize a certain data structure, which allowed local     users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack     memory via a crafted USBDEVFS_CONNECTINFO ioctl call     (bnc#978401).

  - CVE-2016-4565: The InfiniBand (aka IB) stack in the     Linux kernel incorrectly relies on the write system     call, which allowed local users to cause a denial of     service (kernel memory write operation) or possibly have     unspecified other impact via a uAPI interface     (bnc#979548).

  - CVE-2016-2053: The asn1_ber_decoder function in     lib/asn1_decoder.c in the Linux kernel allowed attackers     to cause a denial of service (panic) via an ASN.1 BER     file that lacks a public key, leading to mishandling by     the public_key_verify_signature function in     crypto/asymmetric_keys/public_key.c (bnc#963762).

  - CVE-2016-4485: The llc_cmsg_rcv function in     net/llc/af_llc.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize     a certain data structure, which allowed attackers to     obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by     reading a message (bnc#978821).

  - CVE-2016-4578: sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel     did not initialize certain r1 data structures, which     allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from     kernel stack memory via crafted use of the ALSA timer     interface, related to the (1) snd_timer_user_ccallback     and (2) snd_timer_user_tinterrupt functions     (bnc#979879).

  - CVE-2016-4569: The snd_timer_user_params function in     sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel did not     initialize a certain data structure, which allowed local     users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack     memory via crafted use of the ALSA timer interface     (bnc#979213).

  - CVE-2016-4486: The rtnl_fill_link_ifmap function in     net/core/rtnetlink.c in the Linux kernel did not     initialize a certain data structure, which allowed local     users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack     memory by reading a Netlink message (bnc#978822).

  - CVE-2016-3134: The netfilter subsystem in the Linux     kernel did not validate certain offset fields, which     allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial     of service (heap memory corruption) via an     IPT_SO_SET_REPLACE setsockopt call (bnc#971126).

  - CVE-2016-5696: net/ipv4/tcp_input.c in the Linux kernel     did not properly determine the rate of challenge ACK     segments, which made it easier for man-in-the-middle     attackers to hijack TCP sessions via a blind in-window     attack. (bsc#989152)

  - CVE-2016-6480: Race condition in the ioctl_send_fib     function in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c in the Linux     kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service     (out-of-bounds access or system crash) by changing a     certain size value, aka a 'double fetch' vulnerability.
    (bsc#991608)

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	Published	Updated	Severity
93557	Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20160915)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	9/16/2016	1/23/2026	high
93678	Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2016-3619)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	9/23/2016	2/9/2026	high
93370	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:2245-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	9/8/2016	1/27/2026	critical

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