The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to 4.4.180 to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed :

CVE-2019-11477: A sequence of SACKs may have been crafted such that one can trigger an integer overflow, leading to a kernel panic.
(bsc#1137586)

CVE-2019-11478: It was possible to send a crafted sequence of SACKs which will fragment the TCP retransmission queue. An attacker may have been able to further exploit the fragmented queue to cause an expensive linked-list walk for subsequent SACKs received for that same TCP connection.

CVE-2019-11479: It was possible to send a crafted sequence of SACKs which will fragment the RACK send map. A remote attacker may be able to further exploit the fragmented send map to cause an expensive linked-list walk for subsequent SACKs received for that same TCP connection. This would have resulted in excess resource consumption due to low mss values.

CVE-2019-3846: A flaw that allowed an attacker to corrupt memory and possibly escalate privileges was found in the mwifiex kernel module while connecting to a malicious wireless network. (bnc#1136424)

CVE-2019-12382: An issue was discovered in drm_load_edid_firmware in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid_load.c in the Linux kernel There was an unchecked kstrdup of fwstr, which might allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash).
(bnc#1136586)

CVE-2019-5489: The mincore() implementation in mm/mincore.c in the Linux kernel allowed local attackers to observe page cache access patterns of other processes on the same system, potentially allowing sniffing of secret information. (Fixing this affects the output of the fincore program.) Limited remote exploitation may be possible, as demonstrated by latency differences in accessing public files from an Apache HTTP Server. (bnc#1120843).

CVE-2019-11833: fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel did not zero out the unused memory region in the extent tree block, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading uninitialized data in the filesystem. (bnc#1135281)

CVE-2018-7191: In the tun subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.13.14, dev_get_valid_name is not called before register_netdevice.
This allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and panic) via an ioctl(TUNSETIFF) call with a dev name containing a / character. This is similar to CVE-2013-4343.
(bnc#1135603)

CVE-2019-11190: The Linux kernel allowed local users to bypass ASLR on setuid programs (such as /bin/su) because install_exec_creds() is called too late in load_elf_binary() in fs/binfmt_elf.c, and thus the ptrace_may_access() check has a race condition when reading /proc/pid/stat. (bnc#1131543)

CVE-2019-11815: An issue was discovered in rds_tcp_kill_sock in net/rds/tcp.c in the Linux kernel There was a race condition leading to a use-after-free, related to net namespace cleanup. (bnc#1134537)

CVE-2019-11884: The do_hidp_sock_ioctl function in net/bluetooth/hidp/sock.c in the Linux kernel allowed a local user to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a HIDPCONNADD command, because a name field may not end with a '\0' character. (bnc#1134848)

CVE-2018-17972: An issue was discovered in the proc_pid_stack function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel It did not ensure that only root may inspect the kernel stack of an arbitrary task, allowing a local attacker to exploit racy stack unwinding and leak kernel task stack contents. (bnc#1110785)

CVE-2019-11486: The Siemens R3964 line discipline driver in drivers/tty/n_r3964.c in the Linux kernel has multiple race conditions. (bnc#1133188)

The following new features were implemented: Updated the Chelsio cxgb4vf driver with the latest upstream patches. (fate#321660)

Backported changes into e1000e kernel module to support systems using the Intel I219-LM NIC chip. (fate#326719)

Import QLogic/Cavium qedr driver (RDMA) into the kernel. (fate#321747)

Update the QLogic/Cavium qed driver (NET). (fate#321703)

Update the QLogic/Cavium qede driver (NET). (fate#321702)

Update the Chelsio iw_cxgb4 driver with the latest upstream patches.
(fate#321661)

Update the Chelsio cxgb4 driver with the latest upstream patches.
(fate#321658)

Update support for Intel Omni Path (OPA) kernel driver. (fate#321473)

Update the QIB driver to the latest upstream version for up-to-date functionality and hardware support. (fate#321231)

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 12 SP1 kernel version 3.12.74 was updated to to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed :

CVE-2019-11477: A sequence of SACKs may have been crafted by a remote attacker such that one can trigger an integer overflow, leading to a kernel panic. (bsc#1137586).

CVE-2019-11478: It is possible to send a crafted sequence of SACKs which will fragment the TCP retransmission queue. A remote attacker may be able to further exploit the fragmented queue to cause an expensive linked-list walk for subsequent SACKs received for that same TCP connection.

CVE-2019-11479: It was possible to send a crafted sequence of SACKs which will fragment the RACK send map. A remote attacker may be able to further exploit the fragmented send map to cause an expensive linked-list walk for subsequent SACKs received for that same TCP connection. This would have resulted in excess resource consumption due to low mss values.

CVE-2019-3846: A flaw that allowed an attacker to corrupt memory and possibly escalate privileges was found in the mwifiex kernel module while connecting to a malicious wireless network. (bnc#1136424)

CVE-2019-5489: The mincore() implementation in mm/mincore.c in the Linux kernel allowed local attackers to observe page cache access patterns of other processes on the same system, potentially allowing sniffing of secret information. (Fixing this affects the output of the fincore program.) Limited remote exploitation may be possible, as demonstrated by latency differences in accessing public files from an Apache HTTP Server. (bnc#1120843)

CVE-2019-11833: fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel did not zero out the unused memory region in the extent tree block, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading uninitialized data in the filesystem. (bnc#1135281)

CVE-2019-11190: The Linux kernel allowed local users to bypass ASLR on setuid programs (such as /bin/su) because install_exec_creds() is called too late in load_elf_binary() in fs/binfmt_elf.c, and thus the ptrace_may_access() check has a race condition when reading /proc/pid/stat. (bnc#1131543)

CVE-2019-11884: The do_hidp_sock_ioctl function in net/bluetooth/hidp/sock.c in the Linux kernel allowed a local user to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a HIDPCONNADD command, because a name field may not end with a '\0' character. (bnc#1134848)

CVE-2018-17972: An issue was discovered in the proc_pid_stack function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel It did not ensure that only root may inspect the kernel stack of an arbitrary task, allowing a local attacker to exploit racy stack unwinding and leak kernel task stack contents. (bnc#1110785)

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 12 kernel version 3.12.61 was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed :

CVE-2019-11477: A sequence of SACKs may have been crafted by a remote attacker such that one can trigger an integer overflow, leading to a kernel panic. (bsc#1137586).

CVE-2019-11478: It was possible to send a crafted sequence of SACKs which would fragment the TCP retransmission queue. A remote attacker may have been able to further exploit the fragmented queue to cause an expensive linked-list walk for subsequent SACKs received for that same TCP connection.

CVE-2019-11479: It was possible to send a crafted sequence of SACKs which would fragment the RACK send map. A remote attacker may have been able to further exploit the fragmented send map to cause an expensive linked-list walk for subsequent SACKs received for that same TCP connection. This would have resulted in excess resource consumption due to low mss values.

CVE-2019-3846: A flaw that allowed an attacker to corrupt memory and possibly escalate privileges was found in the mwifiex kernel module while connecting to a malicious wireless network. (bnc#1136424)

CVE-2019-5489: The mincore() implementation in mm/mincore.c in the Linux kernel allowed local attackers to observe page cache access patterns of other processes on the same system, potentially allowing sniffing of secret information. (Fixing this affects the output of the fincore program.) Limited remote exploitation may have been possible, as demonstrated by latency differences in accessing public files from an Apache HTTP Server. (bnc#1120843)

CVE-2019-11833: fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel did not zero out the unused memory region in the extent tree block, which might have allowed local users to obtain sensitive information by reading uninitialized data in the filesystem. (bnc#1135281)

CVE-2019-11190: The Linux kernel allowed local users to bypass ASLR on setuid programs (such as /bin/su) because install_exec_creds() is called too late in load_elf_binary() in fs/binfmt_elf.c, and thus the ptrace_may_access() check has a race condition when reading /proc/pid/stat. (bnc#1131543)

CVE-2019-11884: The do_hidp_sock_ioctl function in net/bluetooth/hidp/sock.c in the Linux kernel allowed a local user to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a HIDPCONNADD command, because a name field may not end with a '\0' character. (bnc#1134848)

CVE-2018-17972: An issue was discovered in the proc_pid_stack function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel It did not ensure that only root may inspect the kernel stack of an arbitrary task, allowing a local attacker to exploit racy stack unwinding and leak kernel task stack contents. (bnc#1110785)

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 remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3871-1 advisory.

    Wen Xu discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the ext4 filesystem implementation in the     Linux kernel. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 image that, when mounted, could     cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-10876,     CVE-2018-10879)

    Wen Xu discovered that a buffer overflow existed in the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux     kernel. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 image that, when mounted, could cause a     denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-10877)

    Wen Xu discovered that an out-of-bounds write vulnerability existed in the ext4 filesystem implementation     in the Linux kernel. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 image that, when mounted,     could cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-10878,     CVE-2018-10882)

    Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly ensure that     xattr information remained in inode bodies. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 image     that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2018-10880)

    Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 file system implementation in the Linux kernel could possibly perform an     out of bounds write when updating the journal for an inline file. An attacker could use this to construct     a malicious ext4 image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2018-10883)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the vsock address family implementation of the Linux     kernel that could lead to a use-after-free condition. A local attacker in a guest virtual machine could     use this to expose sensitive information (host machine kernel memory). (CVE-2018-14625)

    Cfir Cohen discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the KVM implementation of the Linux     kernel, when handling interrupts in environments where nested virtualization is in use (nested KVM     virtualization is not enabled by default in Ubuntu kernels). A local attacker in a guest VM could possibly     use this to gain administrative privileges in a host machine. (CVE-2018-16882)

    Jann Horn discovered that the procfs file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly     restrict the ability to inspect the kernel stack of an arbitrary task. A local attacker could use this to     expose sensitive information. (CVE-2018-17972)

    Jann Horn discovered that the mremap() system call in the Linux kernel did not properly flush the TLB when     completing, potentially leaving access to a physical page after it has been released to the page     allocator. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash), expose sensitive     information, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-18281)

    Wei Wu discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly ensure that ioapics     were initialized. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2018-19407)

    It was discovered that the debug interface for the Linux kernel's HID subsystem did not properly perform     bounds checking in some situations. An attacker with access to debugfs could use this to cause a denial of     service or possibly gain additional privileges. (CVE-2018-9516)

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 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3880-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the CIFS client implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle setup     negotiation during session recovery, leading to a NULL pointer exception. An attacker could use this to     create a malicious CIFS server that caused a denial of service (client system crash). (CVE-2018-1066)

    Jann Horn discovered that the procfs file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly     restrict the ability to inspect the kernel stack of an arbitrary task. A local attacker could use this to     expose sensitive information. (CVE-2018-17972)

    Jann Horn discovered that the mremap() system call in the Linux kernel did not properly flush the TLB when     completing, potentially leaving access to a physical page after it has been released to the page     allocator. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash), expose sensitive     information, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-18281)

    It was discovered that the socket implementation in the Linux kernel contained a type confusion error that     could lead to memory corruption. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-9568)

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 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3871-5 advisory.

    Wen Xu discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the ext4 filesystem implementation in the     Linux kernel. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 image that, when mounted, could     cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-10876,     CVE-2018-10879)

    Wen Xu discovered that a buffer overflow existed in the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux     kernel. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 image that, when mounted, could cause a     denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-10877)

    Wen Xu discovered that an out-of-bounds write vulnerability existed in the ext4 filesystem implementation     in the Linux kernel. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 image that, when mounted,     could cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-10878,     CVE-2018-10882)

    Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly ensure that     xattr information remained in inode bodies. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 image     that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2018-10880)

    Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 file system implementation in the Linux kernel could possibly perform an     out of bounds write when updating the journal for an inline file. An attacker could use this to construct     a malicious ext4 image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2018-10883)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the vsock address family implementation of the Linux     kernel that could lead to a use-after-free condition. A local attacker in a guest virtual machine could     use this to expose sensitive information (host machine kernel memory). (CVE-2018-14625)

    Cfir Cohen discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the KVM implementation of the Linux     kernel, when handling interrupts in environments where nested virtualization is in use (nested KVM     virtualization is not enabled by default in Ubuntu kernels). A local attacker in a guest VM could possibly     use this to gain administrative privileges in a host machine. (CVE-2018-16882)

    Jann Horn discovered that the procfs file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly     restrict the ability to inspect the kernel stack of an arbitrary task. A local attacker could use this to     expose sensitive information. (CVE-2018-17972)

    Jann Horn discovered that the mremap() system call in the Linux kernel did not properly flush the TLB when     completing, potentially leaving access to a physical page after it has been released to the page     allocator. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash), expose sensitive     information, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-18281)

    Wei Wu discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly ensure that ioapics     were initialized. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2018-19407)

    It was discovered that the debug interface for the Linux kernel's HID subsystem did not properly perform     bounds checking in some situations. An attacker with access to debugfs could use this to cause a denial of     service or possibly gain additional privileges. (CVE-2018-9516)

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 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:0831 advisory.

    The kernel-alt packages provide the Linux kernel version 4.x.

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: lack of check for mmap minimum address in expand_downwards in mm/mmap.c leads to NULL pointer     dereferences exploit on non-SMAP platforms (CVE-2019-9213)

    * kernel: use-after-free in ucma_leave_multicast in drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c (CVE-2018-14734)

    * kernel: Unprivileged users able to inspect kernel stacks of arbitrary tasks (CVE-2018-17972)

    * kernel: TLB flush happens too late on mremap (CVE-2018-18281)

    * kernel: Type confusion in drivers/tty/n_tty.c allows for a denial of service (CVE-2018-18386)

    * kernel: userfaultfd bypasses tmpfs file permissions (CVE-2018-18397)

    * kernel: Integer overflow in the alarm_timer_nsleep function (CVE-2018-13053)

    * kernel: NULL pointer dereference in xfs_da_shrink_inode function (CVE-2018-13094)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Bug Fix(es):

    * Failed to boot with ftrace=function in kvm with 2vcpu (BZ#1501024)

    * [ALT-7.5][x86_64] perf test 63 - inet_pton fails on x86_64 (BZ#1518836)

    * BUG: potential out-of-bounds string access when forcing a SELinux label on a file (BZ#1595706)

    * stack out-of-bounds in smb{2,3}_create_lease_buf() on SMB2/SMB3 mounts (BZ#1598757)

    * [ALT-7.6][KVM][PANIC] ltp/lite proc01 - Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address     ffff7fe000200018 (BZ#1623193)

    * Kernel lock up due to read/write lock (BZ#1636261)

    * [RHEL-ALT] Fix potential Spectre v1 in tty code (BZ#1639679)

    * [Huawei AArch64 7.6 Bug] HNS3: Vlan on HNS3 NIC cannot communicate (BZ#1639713)

    * [RHEL7.6-ALT][AWS] backport nvme: update timeout module parameter type (BZ#1654958)

    * ignore STABLE_FLAG of rmap_item->address in rmap_walk_ksm (BZ#1663565)

    * RHEL-Alt-7.6 - kernel: zcrypt: fix specification exception on z196 at ap probe (BZ#1670018)

    * [Huawei AArch64 7.6 Bug] Flock over NFSv3 failed (BZ#1670650)

    * [Huawei AArch64 7.6/7.6-z Bug] HNS3: if a single transmit packet(skb) has more than 8 frags, will cause     the NIC to be unavailable (BZ#1677643)

    * krb5{,i,p} doesn't work with older enctypes on aarch64 (BZ#1678922)

    Users of kernel are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
125990	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:1527-1) (SACK Panic) (SACK Slowness)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	6/18/2019	5/15/2024	high
125994	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:1533-1) (SACK Panic) (SACK Slowness)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	6/18/2019	5/15/2024	high
126240	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:1692-1) (SACK Panic) (SACK Slowness)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	6/25/2019	5/14/2024	high
121469	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3871-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	1/30/2019	8/28/2024	high
121598	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3880-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	2/5/2019	8/27/2024	high
122052	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities (USN-3871-5)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	2/8/2019	8/27/2024	high
124257	RHEL 7 : kernel-alt (RHSA-2019:0831)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	4/24/2019	11/6/2024	high

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