The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update for the kernel package(s).

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel key management     subsystem in which a local attacker could crash the     kernel or corrupt the stack and additional memory     (denial of service) by supplying a specially crafted     RSA key. This flaw panics the machine during the     verification of the RSA key. (CVE-2016-8650)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation     of setsockopt for the SO_{SND|RCV}BUFFORCE setsockopt()     system call. Users with non-namespace CAP_NET_ADMIN are     able to trigger this call and create a situation in     which the sockets sendbuff data size could be negative.
    This could adversely affect memory allocations and     create situations where the system could crash or cause     memory corruption. (CVE-2016-9793)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handling of     clearing SELinux attributes on /proc/pid/attr files. An     empty (null) write to this file can crash the system by     causing the system to attempt to access unmapped kernel     memory. (CVE-2017-2618)

  - The keyring_search_aux function in     security/keys/keyring.c in the Linux kernel through     3.14.79 allows local users to cause a denial of service     (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) via a request_key     system call for the 'dead' type.(CVE-2017-6951)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3422-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that a buffer overflow existed in the Bluetooth stack of the Linux kernel when handling     L2CAP configuration responses. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service     (system crash). (CVE-2017-1000251)

    It was discovered that the asynchronous I/O (aio) subsystem of the Linux kernel did not properly set     permissions on aio memory mappings in some situations. An attacker could use this to more easily exploit     other vulnerabilities. (CVE-2016-10044)

    Baozeng Ding and Andrey Konovalov discovered a race condition in the L2TPv3 IP Encapsulation     implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-10200)

    Andreas Gruenbacher and Jan Kara discovered that the filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not     clear the setgid bit during a setxattr call. A local attacker could use this to possibly elevate group     privileges. (CVE-2016-7097)

    Sergej Schumilo, Ralf Spenneberg, and Hendrik Schwartke discovered that the key management subsystem in     the Linux kernel did not properly allocate memory in some situations. A local attacker could use this to     cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2016-8650)

    Vlad Tsyrklevich discovered an integer overflow vulnerability in the VFIO PCI driver for the Linux kernel.
    A local attacker with access to a vfio PCI device file could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-9083, CVE-2016-9084)

    It was discovered that an information leak existed in __get_user_asm_ex() in the Linux kernel. A local     attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2016-9178)

    CAI Qian discovered that the sysctl implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly perform reference     counting in some situations. An unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     hang). (CVE-2016-9191)

    It was discovered that the keyring implementation in the Linux kernel in some situations did not prevent     special internal keyrings from being joined by userspace keyrings. A privileged local attacker could use     this to bypass module verification. (CVE-2016-9604)

    It was discovered that an integer overflow existed in the trace subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local     privileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2016-9754)

    Andrey Konovalov discovered that the IPv4 implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle     invalid IP options in some situations. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly     execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5970)

    Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly handle TCP packets with the URG flag. A     remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6214)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the AF_PACKET handling code in the Linux kernel. A     local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary     code. (CVE-2017-6346)

    It was discovered that the keyring implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict searches     for dead keys. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2017-6951)

    Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the generic SCSI (sg) subsystem in the Linux kernel contained a stack-based     buffer overflow. A local attacker with access to an sg device could use this to cause a denial of service     (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-7187)

    Eric Biggers discovered a memory leak in the keyring implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker     could use this to cause a denial of service (memory consumption). (CVE-2017-7472)

    It was discovered that a buffer overflow existed in the Broadcom FullMAC WLAN driver in the Linux kernel.
    A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary     code. (CVE-2017-7541)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:2669 advisory.

    The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with     extremely high determinism requirements.

    Security Fix(es):

    * A race condition was found in the Linux kernel, present since v3.14-rc1 through v4.12. The race happens     between threads of inotify_handle_event() and vfs_rename() while running the rename operation against the     same file. As a result of the race the next slab data or the slab's free list pointer can be corrupted     with attacker-controlled data, which may lead to the privilege escalation. (CVE-2017-7533, Important)

    * It was found that the NFSv4 server in the Linux kernel did not properly validate layout type when     processing NFSv4 pNFS LAYOUTGET and GETDEVICEINFO operands. A remote attacker could use this flaw to soft-     lockup the system and thus cause denial of service. (CVE-2017-8797, Important)

    This update also fixes multiple Moderate and Low impact security issues:

    CVE-2017-8797 CVE-2015-8839 CVE-2016-9576 CVE-2016-7042 CVE-2016-7097 CVE-2016-8645 CVE-2016-9576     CVE-2016-9806 CVE-2016-10088 CVE-2017-2671 CVE-2017-5970 CVE-2017-6001 CVE-2017-6951 CVE-2017-7187     CVE-2017-7889 CVE-2017-8890 CVE-2017-9074 CVE-2017-8890 CVE-2017-9075 CVE-2017-8890 CVE-2017-9076     CVE-2017-8890 CVE-2017-9077 CVE-2016-9604 CVE-2016-9685

    Documentation for these issues are available from the Technical Notes document linked to in the References     section.

    Red Hat would like to thank Leilei Lin (Alibaba Group), Fan Wu (The University of Hong Kong), and Shixiong     Zhao (The University of Hong Kong) for reporting CVE-2017-7533 and Marco Grassi for reporting     CVE-2016-8645. The CVE-2016-7042 issue was discovered by Ondrej Kozina (Red Hat); the CVE-2016-7097 issue     was discovered by Andreas Gruenbacher (Red Hat) and Jan Kara (SUSE); the CVE-2016-9604 issue was     discovered by David Howells (Red Hat); and the CVE-2016-9685 issue was discovered by Qian Cai (Red Hat).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or have other impacts.

CVE-2016-2188

Ralf Spenneberg of OpenSource Security reported that the iowarrior device driver did not sufficiently validate USB descriptors. This allowed a physically present user with a specially designed USB device to cause a denial of service (crash).

CVE-2016-9604

It was discovered that the keyring subsystem allowed a process to set a special internal keyring as its session keyring. The security impact in this version of the kernel is unknown.

CVE-2016-10200

Baozeng Ding and Andrey Konovalov reported a race condition in the L2TP implementation which could corrupt its table of bound sockets. A local user could use this to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2017-2647 / CVE-2017-6951

idl3r reported that the keyring subsystem would allow a process to search for 'dead' keys, causing a NULL pointer dereference. A local user could use this to cause a denial of service (crash).

CVE-2017-2671

Daniel Jiang discovered a race condition in the ping socket implementation. A local user with access to ping sockets could use this to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly for privilege escalation. This feature is not accessible to any users by default.

CVE-2017-5967

Xing Gao reported that the /proc/timer_list file showed information about all processes, not considering PID namespaces. If timer debugging was enabled by a privileged user, this leaked information to processes contained in PID namespaces.

CVE-2017-5970

Andrey Konovalov discovered a denial of service flaw in the IPv4 networking code. This can be triggered by a local or remote attacker if a local UDP or raw socket has the IP_RETOPTS option enabled.

CVE-2017-7184

Chaitin Security Research Lab discovered that the net xfrm subsystem did not sufficiently validate replay state parameters, allowing a heap buffer overflow. This can be used by a local user with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for privilege escalation.

CVE-2017-7261

Vladis Dronov and Murray McAllister reported that the vmwgfx driver did not sufficiently validate rendering surface parameters. In a VMware guest, this can be used by a local user to cause a denial of service (crash).

CVE-2017-7273

Benoit Camredon reported that the hid-cypress driver did not sufficiently validate HID reports. This possibly allowed a physically present user with a specially designed USB device to cause a denial of service (crash).

CVE-2017-7294

Li Qiang reported that the vmwgfx driver did not sufficiently validate rendering surface parameters. In a VMware guest, this can be used by a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2017-7308

Andrey Konovalov reported that the packet socket (AF_PACKET) implementation did not sufficiently validate buffer parameters. This can be used by a local user with the CAP_NET_RAW capability for privilege escalation.

CVE-2017-7472

Eric Biggers reported that the keyring subsystem allowed a thread to create new thread keyrings repeatedly, causing a memory leak. This can be used by a local user to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion).

CVE-2017-7616

Chris Salls reported an information leak in the 32-bit big-endian compatibility implementations of set_mempolicy() and mbind(). This does not affect any architecture supported in Debian 7 LTS.

CVE-2017-7618

Sabrina Dubroca reported that the cryptographic hash subsystem does not correctly handle submission of unaligned data to a device that is already busy, resulting in infinite recursion. On some systems this can be used by local users to cause a denial of service (crash).

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 3.2.88-1. This version also includes bug fixes from upstream version 3.2.88, and fixes some older security issues in the keyring, packet socket and cryptographic hash subsystems that do not have CVE IDs.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', most of these problems have been fixed in version 3.16.43-1 which will be part of the next point release.

We recommend that you upgrade your linux packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - The perf_cpu_time_max_percent_handler function in     kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11     allows local users to cause a denial of service     (integer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other     impact via a large value, as demonstrated by an     incorrect sample-rate calculation.(CVE-2017-18255)

  - In the Linux kernel before 4.13.5, a local user could     create keyrings for other users via keyctl commands,     setting unwanted defaults or causing a denial of     service.(CVE-2017-18270)

  - The timer_create syscall implementation in     kernel/time/posix-timers.c in the Linux kernel doesn't     properly validate the sigevent-i1/4zsigev_notify field,     which leads to out-of-bounds access in the show_timer     function.(CVE-2017-18344)

  - arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the Linux kernel through     4.9.3 allows local users to obtain sensitive     information from kernel memory or cause a denial of     service (use-after-free) via a crafted application that     leverages instruction emulation for fxrstor, fxsave,     sgdt, and sidt.(CVE-2017-2584)

  - Linux kernel built with the KVM visualization support     (CONFIG_KVM), with nested visualization(nVMX) feature     enabled(nested=1), is vulnerable to host memory leakage     issue. It could occur while emulating VMXON instruction     in 'handle_vmon'. An L1 guest user could use this flaw     to leak host memory potentially resulting in     DoS.(CVE-2017-2596)

  - A race condition flaw was found in the N_HLDC Linux     kernel driver when accessing n_hdlc.tbuf list that can     lead to double free. A local, unprivileged user able to     set the HDLC line discipline on the tty device could     use this flaw to increase their privileges on the     system.(CVE-2017-2636)

  - A flaw was found that can be triggered in     keyring_search_iterator in keyring.c if type-i1/4zmatch     is NULL. A local user could use this flaw to crash the     system or, potentially, escalate their     privileges.(CVE-2017-2647)

  - A race condition leading to a NULL pointer dereference     was found in the Linux kernel's Link Layer Control     implementation. A local attacker with access to ping     sockets could use this flaw to crash the     system.(CVE-2017-2671)

  - A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel in     'tmpfs' file system. When file permissions are modified     via 'chmod' and the user is not in the owning group or     capable of CAP_FSETID, the setgid bit is cleared in     inode_change_ok(). Setting a POSIX ACL via 'setxattr'     sets the file permissions as well as the new ACL, but     doesn't clear the setgid bit in a similar way this     allows to bypass the check in 'chmod'.(CVE-2017-5551)

  - The do_shmat function in ipc/shm.c in the Linux kernel,     through 4.9.12, does not restrict the address     calculated by a certain rounding operation. This allows     privileged local users to map page zero and,     consequently, bypass a protection mechanism that exists     for the mmap system call. This is possible by making     crafted shmget and shmat system calls in a privileged     context.(CVE-2017-5669)

  - A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel where     having malicious IP options present would cause the     ipv4_pktinfo_prepare() function to drop/free the dst.
    This could result in a system crash or possible     privilege escalation.(CVE-2017-5970)

  - It was reported that with Linux kernel, earlier than     version v4.10-rc8, an application may trigger a BUG_ON     in sctp_wait_for_sndbuf if the socket tx buffer is     full, a thread is waiting on it to queue more data, and     meanwhile another thread peels off the association     being used by the first thread.(CVE-2017-5986)

  - It was found that the original fix for CVE-2016-6786     was incomplete. There exist a race between two     concurrent sys_perf_event_open() calls when both try     and move the same pre-existing software group into a     hardware context.(CVE-2017-6001)

  - A use-after-free flaw was found in the way the Linux     kernel's Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)     implementation freed SKB (socket buffer) resources for     a DCCP_PKT_REQUEST packet when the IPV6_RECVPKTINFO     option is set on the socket. A local, unprivileged user     could use this flaw to alter the kernel memory,     allowing them to escalate their privileges on the     system.(CVE-2017-6074)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handling of     packets with the URG flag. Applications using the     splice() and tcp_splice_read() functionality could     allow a remote attacker to force the kernel to enter a     condition in which it could loop     indefinitely.(CVE-2017-6214)

  - The hashbin_delete function in net/irda/irqueue.c in     the Linux kernel improperly manages lock dropping,     which allows local users to cause a denial of service     (deadlock) via crafted operations on IrDA     devices.(CVE-2017-6348)

  - It was found that the code in net/sctp/socket.c in the     Linux kernel through 4.10.1 does not properly restrict     association peel-off operations during certain wait     states, which allows local users to cause a denial of     service (invalid unlock and double free) via a     multithreaded application. This vulnerability was     introduced by CVE-2017-5986 fix (commit     2dcab5984841).(CVE-2017-6353)

  - The keyring_search_aux function in     security/keys/keyring.c in the Linux kernel allows     local users to cause a denial of service via a     request_key system call for the 'dead' key     type.(CVE-2017-6951)

  - The sg_ioctl function in drivers/scsi/sg.c in the Linux     kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service     (stack-based buffer overflow) or possibly have     unspecified other impacts via a large command size in     an SG_NEXT_CMD_LEN ioctl call, leading to out-of-bounds     write access in the sg_write function.(CVE-2017-7187)

  - In was found that in the Linux kernel, in     vmw_surface_define_ioctl() function in     'drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c' file, a     'num_sizes' parameter is assigned a user-controlled     value which is not checked if it is zero. This is used     in a call to kmalloc() and later leads to dereferencing     ZERO_SIZE_PTR, which in turn leads to a GPF and     possibly to a kernel panic.(CVE-2017-7261)

  - An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in the     Linux kernel's vmw_surface_define_ioctl() function, in     the 'drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c' file. Due     to the nature of the flaw, privilege escalation cannot     be fully ruled out, although we believe it is     unlikely.(CVE-2017-7294)

  - It was found that the packet_set_ring() function of the     Linux kernel's networking implementation did not     properly validate certain block-size data. A local     attacker with CAP_NET_RAW capability could use this     flaw to trigger a buffer overflow, resulting in the     crash of the system. Due to the nature of the flaw,     privilege escalation cannot be fully ruled     out.(CVE-2017-7308)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS 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
102511	Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2017-1842-1) (Stack Clash)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	8/16/2017	6/3/2021	critical
99937	EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2017-1071)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	5/3/2017	1/6/2021	high
103326	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3422-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	9/19/2017	8/27/2024	high
103046	RHEL 6 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2017:2669)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	9/8/2017	4/15/2025	high
99733	Debian DLA-922-1 : linux security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	5/1/2017	1/11/2021	high
124825	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1502)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	5/13/2019	5/20/2022	high

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