The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed :

CVE-2020-11494: An issue was discovered in slc_bump in drivers/net/can/slcan.c, which allowed attackers to read uninitialized can_frame data, potentially containing sensitive information from kernel stack memory, if the configuration lacks CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL (bnc#1168424).

CVE-2020-10942: In get_raw_socket in drivers/vhost/net.c lacks validation of an sk_family field, which might allow attackers to trigger kernel stack corruption via crafted system calls (bnc#1167629).

CVE-2020-8647: Fixed a use-after-free vulnerability in the vc_do_resize function in drivers/tty/vt/vt.c (bnc#1162929).

CVE-2020-8649: Fixed a use-after-free vulnerability in the vgacon_invert_region function in drivers/video/console/vgacon.c (bnc#1162931).

CVE-2020-9383: Fixed an issue in set_fdc in drivers/block/floppy.c, which leads to a wait_til_ready out-of-bounds read (bnc#1165111).

CVE-2019-9458: In the video driver there was a use after free due to a race condition. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed (bnc#1168295).

CVE-2019-3701: Fixed an issue in can_can_gw_rcv, which could cause a system crash (bnc#1120386).

CVE-2019-19768: Fixed a use-after-free in the __blk_add_trace function in kernel/trace/blktrace.c (bnc#1159285).

CVE-2020-11609: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference in the stv06xx subsystem caused by mishandling invalid descriptors (bnc#1168854).

CVE-2020-10720: Fixed a use-after-free read in napi_gro_frags() (bsc#1170778).

CVE-2020-10690: Fixed the race between the release of ptp_clock and cdev (bsc#1170056).

CVE-2019-9455: Fixed a pointer leak due to a WARN_ON statement in a video driver. This could lead to local information disclosure with System execution privileges needed (bnc#1170345).

CVE-2020-11608: Fixed an issue in drivers/media/usb/gspca/ov519.c caused by a NULL pointer dereferences in ov511_mode_init_regs and ov518_mode_init_regs when there are zero endpoints (bnc#1168829).

CVE-2017-18255: The perf_cpu_time_max_percent_handler function in kernel/events/core.c allowed 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 (bnc#1087813).

CVE-2020-8648: There was a use-after-free vulnerability in the n_tty_receive_buf_common function in drivers/tty/n_tty.c (bnc#1162928).

CVE-2020-2732: A flaw was discovered in the way that the KVM hypervisor handled instruction emulation for an L2 guest when nested virtualisation is enabled. Under some circumstances, an L2 guest may trick the L0 guest into accessing sensitive L1 resources that should be inaccessible to the L2 guest (bnc#1163971).

CVE-2019-5108: Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability caused by triggering AP to send IAPP location updates for stations before the required authentication process has completed (bnc#1159912).

CVE-2020-8992: ext4_protect_reserved_inode in fs/ext4/block_validity.c allowed attackers to cause a denial of service (soft lockup) via a crafted journal size (bnc#1164069).

CVE-2018-21008: Fixed a use-after-free which could be caused by the function rsi_mac80211_detach in the file drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_mac80211.c (bnc#1149591).

CVE-2019-14896: A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in Marvell WiFi chip driver. A remote attacker could cause a denial of service (system crash) or, possibly execute arbitrary code, when the lbs_ibss_join_existing function is called after a STA connects to an AP (bnc#1157157).

CVE-2019-14897: A stack-based buffer overflow was found in Marvell WiFi chip driver. An attacker is able to cause a denial of service (system crash) or, possibly execute arbitrary code, when a STA works in IBSS mode (allows connecting stations together without the use of an AP) and connects to another STA (bnc#1157155).

CVE-2019-18675: Fixed an integer overflow in cpia2_remap_buffer in drivers/media/usb/cpia2/cpia2_core.c because cpia2 has its own mmap implementation. This allowed local users (with /dev/video0 access) to obtain read and write permissions on kernel physical pages, which can possibly result in a privilege escalation (bnc#1157804).

CVE-2019-14615: Insufficient control flow in certain data structures for some Intel(R) Processors with Intel(R) Processor Graphics may have allowed an unauthenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access (bnc#1160195, bsc#1165881).

CVE-2019-19965: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_discover.c because of mishandling of port disconnection during discovery, related to a PHY down race condition (bnc#1159911).

CVE-2019-20054: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference in drop_sysctl_table() in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c, related to put_links (bnc#1159910).

CVE-2019-20096: Fixed a memory leak in __feat_register_sp() in net/dccp/feat.c, which may cause denial of service (bnc#1159908).

CVE-2019-19966: Fixed a use-after-free in cpia2_exit() in drivers/media/usb/cpia2/cpia2_v4l.c that will cause denial of service (bnc#1159841).

CVE-2019-19447: Fixed an issue with mounting a crafted ext4 filesystem image, performing some operations, and unmounting could lead to a use-after-free in ext4_put_super in fs/ext4/super.c, related to dump_orphan_list in fs/ext4/super.c (bnc#1158819).

CVE-2019-19319: Fixed an issue with a setxattr operation, after a mount of a crafted ext4 image, can cause a slab-out-of-bounds write access because of an ext4_xattr_set_entry use-after-free in fs/ext4/xattr.c when a large old_size value is used in a memset call (bnc#1158021).

CVE-2019-19767: Fixed mishandling of ext4_expand_extra_isize, as demonstrated by use-after-free errors in __ext4_expand_extra_isize and ext4_xattr_set_entry, related to fs/ext4/inode.c and fs/ext4/super.c (bnc#1159297).

CVE-2019-19066: Fixed memory leak in the bfad_im_get_stats() function in drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad_attr.c that allowed attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering bfa_port_get_stats() failures (bnc#1157303).

CVE-2019-19332: There was an OOB memory write via kvm_dev_ioctl_get_cpuid (bsc#1158827).

CVE-2019-19537: There was a race condition bug that could have been caused by a malicious USB device in the USB character device driver layer (bnc#1158904).

CVE-2019-19535: There was an info-leak bug that could have been caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_fd.c driver (bnc#1158903).

CVE-2019-19527: There was a use-after-free bug that could have been caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c driver (bnc#1158900).

CVE-2019-19533: There was an info-leak bug that could have been caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/media/usb/ttusb-dec/ttusb_dec.c driver (bnc#1158834).

CVE-2019-19532: There were multiple out-of-bounds write bugs that could have been caused by a malicious USB device in the Linux kernel HID drivers (bnc#1158824).

CVE-2019-19523: There was a use-after-free bug that could have been caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/usb/misc/adutux.c driver (bnc#1158823).

CVE-2019-15213: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel, there was a use-after-free caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c driver (bnc#1146544).

CVE-2019-19531: There was a use-after-free bug that can be caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c driver (bnc#1158445).

CVE-2019-19525: There was a use-after-free bug that can be caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.c driver (bnc#1158417).

CVE-2019-19530: There was a use-after-free bug that can be caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c driver (bnc#1158410).

CVE-2019-19536: There was an info-leak bug that can be caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_pro.c driver (bnc#1158394).

CVE-2019-19524: There was a use-after-free bug that can be caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/input/ff-memless.c driver (bnc#1158413).

CVE-2019-19534: There was an info-leak bug that can be caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_core.c driver (bnc#1158398).

CVE-2019-14901: A heap overflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel in Marvell WiFi chip driver. The vulnerability allowed a remote attacker to cause a system crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. The highest threat with this vulnerability is with the availability of the system. If code execution occurs, the code will run with the permissions of root. This will affect both confidentiality and integrity of files on the system (bnc#1157042).

CVE-2019-14895: Fixed a heap-based buffer overflow in the Marvell WiFi chip driver. The flaw could occur when the station attempts a connection negotiation during the handling of the remote devices country settings. This could allow the remote device to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code (bnc#1157158).

CVE-2019-18660: Fixed a information disclosure on powerpc related to the Spectre-RSB mitigation. This is related to arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S and arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c (bnc#1157038 1157923).

CVE-2019-18683: Fixed a privilege escalation where local users have /dev/video0 access, but only if the driver happens to be loaded. There are multiple race conditions during streaming stopping in this driver (part of the V4L2 subsystem) (bnc#1155897).

CVE-2019-19062: Fixed a memory leak in the crypto_report() function in crypto/crypto_user_base.c, which allowed attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering crypto_report_alg() failures (bnc#1157333).

CVE-2019-19052: A memory leak in the gs_can_open() function in drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c allowed attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering usb_submit_urb() failures (bnc#1157324).

CVE-2019-19074: A memory leak in the ath9k_wmi_cmd() function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c allowed attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) (bnc#1157143).

CVE-2019-19073: Memory leaks in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c allowed attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering wait_for_completion_timeout() failures (bnc#1157070).

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 Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4062 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):

    * kernel: use-after-free in sound/core/timer.c (CVE-2019-19807)

    * kernel: out of bounds write in function i2c_smbus_xfer_emulated in drivers/i2c/i2c-core-smbus.c     (CVE-2017-18551)

    * kernel: race condition in smp_task_timedout() and smp_task_done() in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c     leads to use-after-free (CVE-2018-20836)

    * kernel: out of bounds write in i2c driver leads to local escalation of privilege (CVE-2019-9454)

    * kernel: use after free due to race condition in the video driver leads to local privilege escalation     (CVE-2019-9458)

    Space precludes documenting all of the security fixes in this advisory. See the descriptions of the     remaining security fixes in the related Knowledge Article:

    https://access.redhat.com/articles/5442481

    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.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

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.

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4258-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the Atheros 802.11ac wireless USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not     properly validate device metadata. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash). (CVE-2019-15099)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Virtual Video Test Driver in the Linux kernel. An     attacker with write access to /dev/video0 on a system with the vivid module loaded could possibly use this     to gain administrative privileges. (CVE-2019-18683)

    It was discovered that the btrfs file system in the Linux kernel did not properly validate metadata,     leading to a NULL pointer dereference. An attacker could use this to specially craft a file system image     that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2019-18885)

    It was discovered that the crypto subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate memory in     certain error conditions. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (kernel memory     exhaustion). (CVE-2019-19050, CVE-2019-19062)

    It was discovered that the RSI 91x WLAN device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate     memory in certain error conditions. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (kernel     memory exhaustion). (CVE-2019-19071)

    It was discovered that the Broadcom Netxtreme HCA device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly     deallocate memory in certain error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial     of service (kernel memory exhaustion). (CVE-2019-19077)

    It was discovered that the Atheros 802.11ac wireless USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not     properly deallocate memory in certain error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause     a denial of service (kernel memory exhaustion). (CVE-2019-19078)

    It was discovered that the Qualcomm IPC Router TUN device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly     deallocate memory in certain situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of     service (kernel memory exhaustion). (CVE-2019-19079)

    It was discovered that the AMD GPU device drivers in the Linux kernel did not properly deallocate memory     in certain error conditions. A local attacker could use this to possibly cause a denial of service (kernel     memory exhaustion). (CVE-2019-19082)

    Dan Carpenter discovered that the AppleTalk networking subsystem of the Linux kernel did not properly     handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker could use this to     cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2019-19227)

    Or Cohen discovered that the virtual console subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict     writes to unimplemented vcsu (unicode) devices. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial     of service (system crash) or have other unspecified impacts. (CVE-2019-19252)

    It was discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle ioctl     requests to get emulated CPUID features. An attacker with access to /dev/kvm could use this to cause a     denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2019-19332)

    It was discovered that the ext4 file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle     certain conditions. An attacker could use this to specially craft an ext4 file system that, when mounted,     could cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-19767)

    It was discovered that the B2C2 FlexCop USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate     device metadata. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash). (CVE-2019-15291)

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 version of AOS installed on the remote host is prior to 5.19.0.5. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the NXSA-AOS-5.19.0.5 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.

The version of AOS installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.5. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the NXSA-AOS-5.15.5 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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
136661	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2020:1255-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	5/15/2020	3/12/2024	critical
141026	RHEL 7 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2020:4062)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	9/29/2020	11/7/2024	high
133354	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4258-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	1/30/2020	8/27/2024	high
164556	Nutanix AOS : Multiple Vulnerabilities (NXSA-AOS-5.19.0.5)	Nessus	Misc.	9/1/2022	7/22/2025	critical
164599	Nutanix AOS : Multiple Vulnerabilities (NXSA-AOS-5.15.5)	Nessus	Misc.	9/1/2022	7/22/2025	critical

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