The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed :

CVE-2018-12207: Untrusted virtual machines on Intel CPUs could exploit a race condition in the Instruction Fetch Unit of the Intel CPU to cause a Machine Exception during Page Size Change, causing the CPU core to be non-functional.

The Linux Kernel KVM hypervisor was adjusted to avoid page size changes in executable pages by splitting / merging huge pages into small pages as needed. More information can be found on https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7023735 CVE-2019-11135:
Aborting an asynchronous TSX operation on Intel CPUs with Transactional Memory support could be used to facilitate sidechannel information leaks out of microarchitectural buffers, similar to the previously described 'Microarchitectural Data Sampling' attack.

The Linux kernel was supplemented with the option to disable TSX operation altogether (requiring CPU Microcode updates on older systems) and better flushing of microarchitectural buffers (VERW).

The set of options available is described in our TID at https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7024251 CVE-2019-16233:
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c did not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. (bsc#1150457).

CVE-2019-10220: Added sanity checks on the pathnames passed to the user space. (bsc#1144903).

CVE-2019-16232: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference in the Marwell libertas driver (bsc#1150465).

CVE-2019-16234: iwlwifi pcie driver did not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. (bsc#1150452).

CVE-2019-17055: The AF_ISDN network module in the Linux kernel did not enforce CAP_NET_RAW, which meant that unprivileged users could create a raw socket (bnc#1152782).

CVE-2019-17056: The AF_NFC network module did not enforce CAP_NET_RAW, which meant that unprivileged users could create a raw socket (bsc#1152788).

CVE-2019-16413: The 9p filesystem did not protect i_size_write() properly, which caused an i_size_read() infinite loop and denial of service on SMP systems (bnc#1151347).

CVE-2019-15902: A backporting issue was discovered that re-introduced the Spectre vulnerability it had aimed to eliminate. This occurred because the backport process depends on cherry picking specific commits, and because two (correctly ordered) code lines were swapped (bnc#1149376).

CVE-2019-15291: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference issue that could be caused by a malicious USB device (bnc#11465).

CVE-2019-15807: Fixed a memory leak in the SCSI module that could be abused to cause denial of service (bnc#1148938).

CVE-2019-14821: An out-of-bounds access issue was fixed in the kernel's KVM hypervisor. An unprivileged host user or process with access to '/dev/kvm' device could use this flaw to crash the host kernel, resulting in a denial of service or potentially escalating privileges on the system (bnc#1151350).

CVE-2019-15505: An out-of-bounds issue had been fixed that could be caused by crafted USB device traffic (bnc#1147122).

CVE-2017-18595: A double free in allocate_trace_buffer was fixed (bnc#1149555).

CVE-2019-14835: A buffer overflow flaw was found in the kernel's vhost functionality that translates virtqueue buffers to IOVs. A privileged guest user able to pass descriptors with invalid length to the host could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the host (bnc#1150112).

CVE-2019-15216: A NULL pointer dereference was fixed that could be malicious USB device (bnc#1146361).

CVE-2019-9456: An out-of-bounds write in the USB monitor driver has been fixed. This issue could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. (bnc#1150025).

CVE-2019-15926: An out-of-bounds access was fixed in the drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl module. (bnc#1149527).

CVE-2019-15927: An out-of-bounds access was fixed in the sound/usb/mixer module (bnc#1149522).

CVE-2019-15219: A NULL pointer dereference was fixed that could be abused by a malicious USB device (bnc#1146524).

CVE-2019-15220: A use-after-free issue was fixed that could be caused by a malicious USB device (bnc#1146526).

CVE-2019-15221: A NULL pointer dereference was fixed that could be caused by a malicious USB device (bnc#1146529).

CVE-2019-14814: A heap-based buffer overflow was fixed in the marvell wifi chip driver. That issue allowed local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code (bnc#1146512).

CVE-2019-14815: A missing length check while parsing WMM IEs was fixed (bsc#1146512, bsc#1146514, bsc#1146516).

CVE-2019-14816: A heap-based buffer overflow in the marvell wifi chip driver was fixed. Local users would have abused this issue to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code (bnc#1146516).

CVE-2017-18509: An issue in net/ipv6 as fixed. By setting a specific socket option, an attacker could control a pointer in kernel land and cause an inet_csk_listen_stop general protection fault, or potentially execute arbitrary code under certain circumstances. The issue can be triggered as root (e.g., inside a default LXC container or with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability) or after namespace unsharing. (bnc#1145477)

CVE-2019-9506: The Bluetooth BR/EDR specification used to permit sufficiently low encryption key length and did not prevent an attacker from influencing the key length negotiation. This allowed practical brute-force attacks (aka 'KNOB') that could decrypt traffic and inject arbitrary ciphertext without the victim noticing (bnc#1137865).

CVE-2019-15098: A NULL pointer dereference in drivers/net/wireless/ath was fixed (bnc#1146378).

CVE-2019-15290: A NULL pointer dereference in ath6kl_usb_alloc_urb_from_pipe was fixed (bsc#1146378).

CVE-2019-15212: A double-free issue was fixed in drivers/usb driver (bnc#1146391).

CVE-2016-10906: A use-after-free issue was fixed in drivers/net/ethernet/arc (bnc#1146584).

CVE-2019-15217: A a NULL pointer dereference issue caused by a malicious USB device was fixed in the drivers/media/usb/zr364xx driver (bnc#1146519).

CVE-2019-15218: A NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device was fixed in the drivers/media/usb/siano driver (bnc#1146413).

CVE-2019-15215: A use-after-free issue caused by a malicious USB device was fixed in the drivers/media/usb/cpia2 driver (bnc#1146425).

CVE-2018-20976: A use-after-free issue was fixed in the fs/xfs driver (bnc#1146285).

CVE-2017-18551: An out-of-bounds write was fixed in the drivers/i2c driver (bnc#1146163).

CVE-2019-10207: Add checks for missing tty operations to prevent unprivileged user to execute 0x0 address (bsc#1142857 bsc#1123959)

CVE-2019-15118: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix a stack-based buffer overflow bug in check_input_term leading to kernel stack exhaustion (bsc#1145922).

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 15 SP1 RT kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed :

CVE-2019-15916: Fixed a memory leak in register_queue_kobjects() which might have led denial of service (bsc#1149448).

CVE-2019-0154: Fixed an improper access control in subsystem for Intel (R) processor graphics whichs may have allowed an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access (bsc#1135966).

CVE-2019-0155: Fixed an improper access control in subsystem for Intel (R) processor graphics whichs may have allowed an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access (bsc#1135967).

CVE-2019-16231: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference due to lack of checking the alloc_workqueue return value (bsc#1150466).

CVE-2019-18805: Fixed an integer overflow in tcp_ack_update_rtt() leading to a denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact (bsc#1156187).

CVE-2019-17055: Enforced CAP_NET_RAW in the AF_ISDN network module to restrict unprivileged users to create a raw socket (bsc#1152782).

CVE-2019-16995: Fixed a memory leak in hsr_dev_finalize() which may have caused denial of service (bsc#1152685).

CVE-2019-11135: Aborting an asynchronous TSX operation on Intel CPUs with Transactional Memory support could be used to facilitate sidechannel information leaks out of microarchitectural buffers, similar to the previously described 'Microarchitectural Data Sampling' attack.(bsc#1139073). The Linux kernel was supplemented with the option to disable TSX operation altogether (requiring CPU Microcode updates on older systems) and better flushing of microarchitectural buffers (VERW). The set of options available is described in our TID at https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7024251

CVE-2019-16233: drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c did not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference.
(bsc#1150457).

CVE-2018-12207: Untrusted virtual machines on Intel CPUs could exploit a race condition in the Instruction Fetch Unit of the Intel CPU to cause a Machine Exception during Page Size Change, causing the CPU core to be non-functional.

CVE-2019-10220: Added sanity checks on the pathnames passed to the user space. (bsc#1144903)

CVE-2019-17666: rtlwifi: Fix potential overflow in P2P code (bsc#1154372).

CVE-2019-16232: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference in the Marwell libertas driver (bsc#1150465).

CVE-2019-16234: iwlwifi pcie driver did not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. (bsc#1150452).

CVE-2019-17133: cfg80211 wireless extension did not reject a long SSID IE, leading to a Buffer Overflow (bsc#1153158).

CVE-2019-17056: The AF_NFC network module did not enforce CAP_NET_RAW, which meant that unprivileged users could create a raw socket (bsc#1152788).

CVE-2019-15291: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device in the flexcop_usb_probe function (bsc#1146519).

CVE-2019-14821: Fixed an out-of-bounds access resulting in a denial of service or potentially escalating privileges on the system (bnc#1151350).

CVE-2017-18595: Fixed a double free which caused by the function allocate_trace_buffer (bsc#1149555).

CVE-2019-9506: Fixed an issue with Bluetooth which permited low encryption key length and did not prevent an attacker from influencing the key length negotiation allowing brute-force attacks (bsc#1137865).

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 version of AOS installed on the remote host is prior to 5.19.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the NXSA-AOS-5.19.1 advisory.

  - In Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.46, several cryptographic primitives had missing length     checks. In cases where the application calling the library did not perform a sanity check on the inputs it     could result in a crash due to a buffer overflow. (CVE-2019-17006)

  - Heap buffer overflow in the TFTP protocol handler in cURL 7.19.4 to 7.65.3. (CVE-2019-5482)

  - In all versions of cpio before 2.13 does not properly validate input files when generating TAR archives.
    When cpio is used to create TAR archives from paths an attacker can write to, the resulting archive may     contain files with permissions the attacker did not have or in paths he did not have access to. Extracting     those archives from a high-privilege user without carefully reviewing them may lead to the compromise of     the system. (CVE-2019-14866)

  - If an HTTP/2 client connecting to Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M7, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.37 or 8.5.0 to     8.5.57 exceeded the agreed maximum number of concurrent streams for a connection (in violation of the     HTTP/2 protocol), it was possible that a subsequent request made on that connection could contain HTTP     headers - including HTTP/2 pseudo headers - from a previous request rather than the intended headers. This     could lead to users seeing responses for unexpected resources. (CVE-2020-13943)

  - Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Optimizer). Supported     versions that are affected are 5.6.45 and prior, 5.7.27 and prior and 8.0.17 and prior. Easily exploitable     vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise     MySQL Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang     or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Server. (CVE-2019-2974)

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 information leaks.

CVE-2018-13093, CVE-2018-13094

Wen Xu from SSLab at Gatech reported several NULL pointer dereference flaws that may be triggered when mounting and operating a crafted XFS volume. An attacker able to mount arbitrary XFS volumes could use this to cause a denial of service (crash).

CVE-2018-20976

It was discovered that the XFS file-system implementation did not correctly handle some mount failure conditions, which could lead to a use-after-free. The security impact of this is unclear.

CVE-2018-21008

It was discovered that the rsi wifi driver did not correctly handle some failure conditions, which could lead to a use-after- free. The security impact of this is unclear.

CVE-2019-0136

It was discovered that the wifi soft-MAC implementation (mac80211) did not properly authenticate Tunneled Direct Link Setup (TDLS) messages.
A nearby attacker could use this for denial of service (loss of wifi connectivity).

CVE-2019-2215

The syzkaller tool discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the Android binder driver. A local user on a system with this driver enabled could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation. However, this driver is not enabled on Debian packaged kernels.

CVE-2019-10220

Various developers and researchers found that if a crafted file- system or malicious file server presented a directory with filenames including a '/' character, this could confuse and possibly defeat security checks in applications that read the directory.

The kernel will now return an error when reading such a directory, rather than passing the invalid filenames on to user-space.

CVE-2019-14615

It was discovered that Intel 9th and 10th generation GPUs did not clear user-visible state during a context switch, which resulted in information leaks between GPU tasks. This has been mitigated in the i915 driver.

The affected chips (gen9 and gen10) are listed at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_graphics_proces sing_units#Gen9>.

CVE-2019-14814, CVE-2019-14815, CVE-2019-14816

Multiple bugs were discovered in the mwifiex wifi driver, which could lead to heap buffer overflows. A local user permitted to configure a device handled by this driver could probably use this for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-14895, CVE-2019-14901

ADLab of Venustech discovered potential heap buffer overflows in the mwifiex wifi driver. On systems using this driver, a malicious Wireless Access Point or adhoc/P2P peer could use these to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for remote code execution.

CVE-2019-14896, CVE-2019-14897

ADLab of Venustech discovered potential heap and stack buffer overflows in the libertas wifi driver. On systems using this driver, a malicious Wireless Access Point or adhoc/P2P peer could use these to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for remote code execution.

CVE-2019-15098

Hui Peng and Mathias Payer reported that the ath6kl wifi driver did not properly validate USB descriptors, which could lead to a NULL pointer derefernce. An attacker able to add USB devices could use this to cause a denial of service (BUG/oops).

CVE-2019-15217

The syzkaller tool discovered that the zr364xx mdia driver did not correctly handle devices without a product name string, which could lead to a NULL pointer dereference. An attacker able to add USB devices could use this to cause a denial of service (BUG/oops).

CVE-2019-15291

The syzkaller tool discovered that the b2c2-flexcop-usb media driver did not properly validate USB descriptors, which could lead to a NULL pointer dereference. An attacker able to add USB devices could use this to cause a denial of service (BUG/oops).

CVE-2019-15505

The syzkaller tool discovered that the technisat-usb2 media driver did not properly validate incoming IR packets, which could lead to a heap buffer over-read. An attacker able to add USB devices could use this to cause a denial of service (BUG/oops) or to read sensitive information from kernel memory.

CVE-2019-15917

The syzkaller tool found a race condition in code supporting UART-attached Bluetooth adapters, which could lead to a use- after-free. A local user with access to a pty device or other suitable tty device could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-16746

It was discovered that the wifi stack did not validate the content of beacon heads provided by user-space for use on a wifi interface in Access Point mode, which could lead to a heap buffer overflow. A local user permitted to configure a wifi interface could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-17052, CVE-2019-17053, CVE-2019-17054, CVE-2019-17055, CVE-2019-17056

Ori Nimron reported that various network protocol implementations

  - AX.25, IEEE 802.15.4, Appletalk, ISDN, and NFC - allowed     all users to create raw sockets. A local user could use     this to send arbitrary packets on networks using those     protocols.

CVE-2019-17075

It was found that the cxgb4 Infiniband driver requested DMA (Direct Memory Access) to a stack-allocated buffer, which is not supported and on some systems can result in memory corruption of the stack. A local user might be able to use this for denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-17133

Nicholas Waisman reported that the wifi stack did not valdiate received SSID information before copying it, which could lead to a buffer overflow if it is not validated by the driver or firmware. A malicious Wireless Access Point might be able to use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or for remote code execution.

CVE-2019-17666

Nicholas Waisman reported that the rtlwifi wifi drivers did not properly validate received P2P information, leading to a buffer overflow. A malicious P2P peer could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or for remote code execution.

CVE-2019-18282

Jonathan Berger, Amit Klein, and Benny Pinkas discovered that the generation of UDP/IPv6 flow labels used a weak hash function, 'jhash'.
This could enable tracking individual computers as they communicate with different remote servers and from different networks. The 'siphash' function is now used instead.

CVE-2019-18683

Multiple race conditions were discovered in the vivid media driver, used for testing Video4Linux2 (V4L2) applications, These race conditions could result in a use-after-free. On a system where this driver is loaded, a user with permission to access media devices could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-18809

Navid Emamdoost discovered a potential memory leak in the af9005 media driver if the device fails to respond to a command. The security impact of this is unclear.

CVE-2019-19037

It was discovered that the ext4 filesystem driver did not correctly handle directories with holes (unallocated regions) in them. An attacker able to mount arbitrary ext4 volumes could use this to cause a denial of service (crash).

CVE-2019-19051

Navid Emamdoost discovered a potential memory leak in the i2400m wimax driver if the software rfkill operation fails. The security impact of this is unclear.

CVE-2019-19052

Navid Emamdoost discovered a potential memory leak in the gs_usb CAN driver if the open (interface-up) operation fails. The security impact of this is unclear.

CVE-2019-19056, CVE-2019-19057

Navid Emamdoost discovered potential memory leaks in the mwifiex wifi driver if the probe operation fails. The security impact of this is unclear.

CVE-2019-19062

Navid Emamdoost discovered a potential memory leak in the AF_ALG subsystem if the CRYPTO_MSG_GETALG operation fails. A local user could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion).

CVE-2019-19066

Navid Emamdoost discovered a potential memory leak in the bfa SCSI driver if the get_fc_host_stats operation fails. The security impact of this is unclear.

CVE-2019-19068

Navid Emamdoost discovered a potential memory leak in the rtl8xxxu wifi driver, in case it fails to submit an interrupt buffer to the device. The security impact of this is unclear.

CVE-2019-19227

Dan Carpenter reported missing error checks in the Appletalk protocol implementation that could lead to a NULL pointer dereference. The security impact of this is unclear.

CVE-2019-19332

The syzkaller tool discovered a missing bounds check in the KVM implementation for x86, which could lead to a heap buffer overflow. A local user permitted to use KVM could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-19447

It was discovered that the ext4 filesystem driver did not safely handle unlinking of an inode that, due to filesystem corruption, already has a link count of 0. An attacker able to mount arbitrary ext4 volumes could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-19523

The syzkaller tool discovered a use-after-free bug in the adutux USB driver. An attacker able to add and remove USB devices could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-19524

The syzkaller tool discovered a race condition in the ff-memless library used by input drivers. An attacker able to add and remove USB devices could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-19525

The syzkaller tool discovered a use-after-free bug in the atusb driver for IEEE 802.15.4 networking. An attacker able to add and remove USB devices could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-19527

The syzkaller tool discovered that the hiddev driver did not correctly handle races between a task opening the device and disconnection of the underlying hardware. A local user permitted to access hiddev devices, and able to add and remove USB devices, could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-19530

The syzkaller tool discovered a potential use-after-free in the cdc-acm network driver. An attacker able to add USB devices could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-19531

The syzkaller tool discovered a use-after-free bug in the yurex USB driver. An attacker able to add and remove USB devices could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-19532

The syzkaller tool discovered a potential heap buffer overflow in the hid-gaff input driver, which was also found to exist in many other input drivers. An attacker able to add USB devices could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-19533

The syzkaller tool discovered that the ttusb-dec media driver was missing initialisation of a structure, which could leak sensitive information from kernel memory.

CVE-2019-19534, CVE-2019-19535, CVE-2019-19536

The syzkaller tool discovered that the peak_usb CAN driver was missing initialisation of some structures, which could leak sensitive information from kernel memory.

CVE-2019-19537

The syzkaller tool discovered race conditions in the USB stack, involving character device registration. An attacker able to add USB devices could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-19767

The syzkaller tool discovered that crafted ext4 volumes could trigger a buffer overflow in the ext4 filesystem driver. An attacker able to mount such a volume could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-19947

It was discovered that the kvaser_usb CAN driver was missing initialisation of some structures, which could leak sensitive information from kernel memory.

CVE-2019-19965

Gao Chuan reported a race condition in the libsas library used by SCSI host drivers, which could lead to a NULL pointer dereference. An attacker able to add and remove SCSI devices could use this to cause a denial of service (BUG/oops).

CVE-2019-20096

The Hulk Robot tool discovered a potential memory leak in the DCCP protocol implementation. This may be exploitable by local users, or by remote attackers if the system uses DCCP, to cause a denial of service (out of memory).

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 4.9.210-1~deb8u1. This update additionally fixes Debian bugs #869511 and 945023; and includes many more bug fixes from stable updates 4.9.190-4.9.210 inclusive.

We recommend that you upgrade your linux-4.9 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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
130950	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:2950-1) (SACK Panic)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	11/13/2019	4/11/2024	critical
132071	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:3295-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	12/16/2019	4/4/2024	critical
130736	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-2274)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	11/8/2019	1/12/2026	critical
164584	Nutanix AOS : Multiple Vulnerabilities (NXSA-AOS-5.19.1)	Nessus	Misc.	9/1/2022	7/22/2025	critical
134240	Debian DLA-2114-1 : linux-4.9 security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	3/6/2020	3/25/2024	critical

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