The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 kernel was updated to 3.12.59 to receive various security and bugfixes.

Main feature additions :

  - Improved support for Clustered File System (CephFS,     fate#318586).

  - Addition of kGraft patches now produces logging messages     to simplify auditing (fate#317827).

The following security bugs were fixed :

  - CVE-2016-1583: Prevent the usage of mmap when the lower     file system does not allow it. This could have lead to     local privilege escalation when ecryptfs-utils was     installed and /sbin/mount.ecryptfs_private was setuid     (bsc#983143).

  - CVE-2014-9717: fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel     processes MNT_DETACH umount2 system calls without     verifying that the MNT_LOCKED flag is unset, which     allowed local users to bypass intended access     restrictions and navigate to filesystem locations     beneath a mount by calling umount2 within a user     namespace (bnc#928547).

  - CVE-2016-2185: The ati_remote2_probe function in     drivers/input/misc/ati_remote2.c in the Linux kernel     allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial     of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash)     via a crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor     (bnc#971124).

  - CVE-2016-2186: The powermate_probe function in     drivers/input/misc/powermate.c in the Linux kernel     allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial     of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash)     via a crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor     (bnc#970958).

  - CVE-2016-2188: The iowarrior_probe function in     drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c in the Linux kernel allowed     physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of     service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via     a crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor     (bnc#970956).

  - CVE-2016-2847: fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel did not     limit the amount of unread data in pipes, which allowed     local users to cause a denial of service (memory     consumption) by creating many pipes with non-default     sizes (bsc#970948).

  - CVE-2016-3134: The netfilter subsystem in the Linux     kernel did not validate certain offset fields, which     allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial     of service (heap memory corruption) via an     IPT_SO_SET_REPLACE setsockopt call (bnc#971126 971793).

  - CVE-2016-3136: The mct_u232_msr_to_state function in     drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c in the Linux kernel     allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial     of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash)     via a crafted USB device without two interrupt-in     endpoint descriptors (bnc#970955).

  - CVE-2016-3137: drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.c in the     Linux kernel allowed physically proximate attackers to     cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and     system crash) via a USB device without both an     interrupt-in and an interrupt-out endpoint descriptor,     related to the cypress_generic_port_probe and     cypress_open functions (bnc#970970).

  - CVE-2016-3138: The acm_probe function in     drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c in the Linux kernel allowed     physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of     service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via     a USB device without both a control and a data endpoint     descriptor (bnc#970911 970970).

  - CVE-2016-3140: The digi_port_init function in     drivers/usb/serial/digi_acceleport.c in the Linux kernel     allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial     of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash)     via a crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor     (bnc#970892).

  - CVE-2016-3689: The ims_pcu_parse_cdc_data function in     drivers/input/misc/ims-pcu.c in the Linux kernel allowed     physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of     service (system crash) via a USB device without both a     master and a slave interface (bnc#971628).

  - CVE-2016-3951: Double free vulnerability in     drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c in the Linux kernel allowed     physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of     service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified     other impact by inserting a USB device with an invalid     USB descriptor (bnc#974418).

  - CVE-2016-4482: Fixed information leak in devio     (bnc#978401).

  - CVE-2016-4486: Fixed information leak in rtnetlink (     bsc#978822).

  - CVE-2016-4569: Fixed information leak in events via     snd_timer_user_tinterrupt (bsc#979213).

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.

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es) :

* It was found that stacking a file system over procfs in the Linux kernel could lead to a kernel stack overflow due to deep nesting, as demonstrated by mounting ecryptfs over procfs and creating a recursion by mapping /proc/ environ. An unprivileged, local user could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system.
(CVE-2016-1583, Important)

* It was reported that on s390x, the fork of a process with four page table levels will cause memory corruption with a variety of symptoms.
All processes are created with three level page table and a limit of 4TB for the address space. If the parent process has four page table levels with a limit of 8PB, the function that duplicates the address space will try to copy memory areas outside of the address space limit for the child process. (CVE-2016-2143, Moderate)

Bug Fix(es) :

* Use of a multi-threaded workload with high memory mappings sometiems caused a kernel panic, due to a race condition between the context switch and the pagetable upgrade. This update fixes the switch_mm() by using the complete asce parameter instead of the asce_bits parameter.
As a result, the kernel no longer panics in the described scenario.
(BZ#1377472)

* When iptables created the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) reset packet, a kernel crash could occur due to uninitialized pointer to the TCP header within the Socket Buffer (SKB). This update fixes the transport header pointer in TCP reset for both IPv4 and IPv6, and the kernel no longer crashes in the described situation.(BZ#1372266)

* Previously, when the Enhanced Error Handling (EEH) mechanism did not block the PCI configuration space access and an error was detected, a kernel panic occurred. This update fixes EEH to fix this problem. As a result, the kernel no longer panics in the described scenario.
(BZ#1379596)

* When the lockd service failed to start up completely, the notifier blocks were in some cases registered on a notification chain multiple times, which caused the occurrence of a circular list on the notification chain. Consequently, a soft lock-up or a kernel oops occurred. With this update, the notifier blocks are unregistered if lockd fails to start up completely, and the soft lock-ups or the kernel oopses no longer occur under the described circumstances.
(BZ#1375637)

* When the Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) was configured, the FCoE MaxFrameSize parameter was incorrectly restricted to 1452. With this update, the NETIF_F_ALL_FCOE symbol is no longer ignored, which fixes this bug. MaxFrameSize is now restricted to 2112, which is the correct value. (BZ#1381592)

* When the fnic driver was installed on Cisco UCS Blade Server, the discs were under certain circumstances put into the offline state with the following error message: 'Medium access timeout failure. Offlining disk!'. This update fixes fnic to set the Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) status as DID_ABORT after a successful abort operation. As a result, the discs are no longer put into the offlined state in the described situation. (BZ#1382620)

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

  - Array index error in the tcm_vhost_make_tpg function in     drivers/vhost/scsi.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0     might allow guest OS users to cause a denial of service     (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other     impact via a crafted VHOST_SCSI_SET_ENDPOINT ioctl     call. NOTE: the affected function was renamed to     vhost_scsi_make_tpg before the vulnerability was     announced.(CVE-2015-4036)

  - The ecryptfs_privileged_open function in     fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6.3     allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial     of service (stack memory consumption) via vectors     involving crafted mmap calls for /proc pathnames,     leading to recursive pagefault handling.(CVE-2016-1583)

  - It was found that SCSI driver in the Linux kernel can     improperly access userspace memory outside the provided     buffer. A local privileged attacker could potentially     use this flaw to expose information from the kernel     memory.(CVE-2017-13168)

  - The acpi_ds_create_operands() function in     drivers/acpi/acpica/dsutils.c in the Linux kernel     through 4.12.9 does not flush the operand cache and     causes a kernel stack dump, which allows local users to     obtain sensitive information from kernel memory and     bypass the KASLR protection mechanism (in the kernel     through 4.9) via a crafted ACPI table.(CVE-2017-13693)

  - The acpi_ps_complete_final_op() function in     drivers/acpi/acpica/psobject.c in the Linux kernel     through 4.12.9 does not flush the node and node_ext     caches and causes a kernel stack dump, which allows     local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel     memory and bypass the KASLR protection mechanism (in     the kernel through 4.9) via a crafted ACPI     table.(CVE-2017-13694)

  - The acpi_ns_evaluate() function in     drivers/acpi/acpica/nseval.c in the Linux kernel     through 4.12.9 does not flush the operand cache and     causes a kernel stack dump, which allows local users to     obtain sensitive information from kernel memory and     bypass the KASLR protection mechanism (in the kernel     through 4.9) via a crafted ACPI table.(CVE-2017-13695)

  - The XFS_IS_REALTIME_INODE macro in fs/xfs/xfs_linux.h     in the Linux kernel before 4.13.2 does not verify that     a filesystem has a realtime device, which allows local     users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer     dereference and OOPS) via vectors related to setting an     RHINHERIT flag on a directory.(CVE-2017-14340)

  - The xfs_bmap_extents_to_btree function in     fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c in the Linux kernel through     4.16.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service     (xfs_bmapi_write NULL pointer dereference) via a     crafted xfs image.(CVE-2018-10323)

  - A flaw was found in Linux kernel in the ext4 filesystem     code. A use-after-free is possible in     ext4_ext_remove_space() function when mounting and     operating a crafted ext4 image.(CVE-2018-10876)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel ext4 filesystem.
    An out-of-bound access is possible in the     ext4_ext_drop_refs() function when operating on a     crafted ext4 filesystem image.(CVE-2018-10877)

  - The pcpu_embed_first_chunk function in mm/percpu.c in     the Linux kernel through 4.14.14 allows local users to     obtain sensitive address information by reading dmesg     data from a(CVE-2018-5995)

  - Memory leak in the irda_bind function in     net/irda/af_irda.c and later in     drivers/staging/irda/net/af_irda.c in the Linux kernel     before 4.17 allows local users to cause a denial of     service (memory consumption) by repeatedly binding an     AF_IRDA socket.(CVE-2018-6554)

  - A NULL pointer dereference was found in the     net/rds/rdma.c __rds_rdma_map() function in the Linux     kernel before 4.14.7 allowing local attackers to cause     a system panic and a denial-of-service, related to     RDS_GET_MR and RDS_GET_MR_FOR_DEST.(CVE-2018-7492)

  - ** DISPUTED ** Race condition in the     store_int_with_restart() function in     arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c in the Linux kernel     through 4.15.7 allows local users to cause a denial of     service (panic) by leveraging root access to write to     the check_interval file in a     /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheck<cpu     number> directory. NOTE: a third party has indicated     that this report is not security     relevant.(CVE-2018-7995)

  - Non-optimized code for key handling of shared futexes     was found in the Linux kernel in the form of unbounded     contention time due to the page lock for real-time     users. Before the fix, the page lock was an     unnecessarily heavy lock for the futex path that     protected too much. After the fix, the page lock is     only required in a specific corner case.(CVE-2018-9422)

  - A memory leak in the ccp_run_sha_cmd() function in     drivers/crypto/ccp/ccp-ops.c in the Linux kernel     through 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of     service (memory consumption), aka     CID-128c66429247.(CVE-2019-18808)

  - In the Linux kernel before 5.1, there is a memory leak     in __feat_register_sp() in net/dccp/feat.c, which may     cause denial of service, aka     CID-1d3ff0950e2b.(CVE-2019-20096)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before     5.4.7. The prb_calc_retire_blk_tmo() function in     net/packet/af_packet.c can result in a denial of     service (CPU consumption and soft lockup) in a certain     failure case involving TPACKET_V3, aka     CID-b43d1f9f7067.(CVE-2019-20812)

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.

Security Fix(es) :

  - It was found that stacking a file system over procfs in     the Linux kernel could lead to a kernel stack overflow     due to deep nesting, as demonstrated by mounting     ecryptfs over procfs and creating a recursion by mapping     /proc/environ. An unprivileged, local user could     potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges     on the system. (CVE-2016-1583, Important)

  - It was reported that on s390x, the fork of a process     with four page table levels will cause memory corruption     with a variety of symptoms. All processes are created     with three level page table and a limit of 4TB for the     address space. If the parent process has four page table     levels with a limit of 8PB, the function that duplicates     the address space will try to copy memory areas outside     of the address space limit for the child process.
    (CVE-2016-2143, Moderate)

Bug Fix(es) :

  - Use of a multi-threaded workload with high memory     mappings sometiems caused a kernel panic, due to a race     condition between the context switch and the pagetable     upgrade. This update fixes the switch_mm() by using the     complete asce parameter instead of the asce_bits     parameter. As a result, the kernel no longer panics in     the described scenario.

  - When iptables created the Transmission Control Protocol     (TCP) reset packet, a kernel crash could occur due to     uninitialized pointer to the TCP header within the     Socket Buffer (SKB). This update fixes the transport     header pointer in TCP reset for both IPv4 and IPv6, and     the kernel no longer crashes in the described situation.

  - Previously, when the Enhanced Error Handling (EEH)     mechanism did not block the PCI configuration space     access and an error was detected, a kernel panic     occurred. This update fixes EEH to fix this problem. As     a result, the kernel no longer panics in the described     scenario.

  - When the lockd service failed to start up completely,     the notifier blocks were in some cases registered on a     notification chain multiple times, which caused the     occurrence of a circular list on the notification chain.
    Consequently, a soft lock-up or a kernel oops occurred.
    With this update, the notifier blocks are unregistered     if lockd fails to start up completely, and the soft     lock-ups or the kernel oopses no longer occur under the     described circumstances.

  - When the Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) was     configured, the FCoE MaxFrameSize parameter was     incorrectly restricted to 1452. With this update, the     NETIF_F_ALL_FCOE symbol is no longer ignored, which     fixes this bug. MaxFrameSize is now restricted to 2112,     which is the correct value.

  - When the fnic driver was installed on Cisco UCS Blade     Server, the discs were under certain circumstances put     into the offline state with the following error message:
    'Medium access timeout failure. Offlining disk!'. This     update fixes fnic to set the Small Computer System     Interface (SCSI) status as DID_ABORT after a successful     abort operation. As a result, the discs are no longer     put into the offlined state in the described situation.

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

  - CVE-2015-7515, CVE-2016-2184, CVE-2016-2185,     CVE-2016-2186, CVE-2016-2187, CVE-2016-3136,     CVE-2016-3137, CVE-2016-3138, CVE-2016-3140     Ralf Spenneberg of OpenSource Security reported that     various USB drivers do 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-2016-0821     Solar Designer noted that the list 'poisoning' feature,     intended to mitigate the effects of bugs in list     manipulation in the kernel, used poison values within     the range of virtual addresses that can be allocated by     user processes.

  - CVE-2016-1237     David Sinquin discovered that nfsd does not check     permissions when setting ACLs, allowing users to grant     themselves permissions to a file by setting the ACL.

  - CVE-2016-1583     Jann Horn of Google Project Zero reported that the     eCryptfs filesystem could be used together with the proc     filesystem to cause a kernel stack overflow. If the     ecryptfs-utils package is installed, local users could     exploit this, via the mount.ecryptfs_private program,     for denial of service (crash) or possibly for privilege     escalation.

  - CVE-2016-2117     Justin Yackoski of Cryptonite discovered that the     Atheros L2 ethernet driver incorrectly enables     scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could take     advantage of this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive     information from kernel memory.

  - CVE-2016-2143     Marcin Koscielnicki discovered that the fork     implementation in the Linux kernel on s390 platforms     mishandles the case of four page-table levels, which     allows local users to cause a denial of service (system     crash).

  - CVE-2016-3070     Jan Stancek of Red Hat discovered a local denial of     service vulnerability in AIO handling.

  - CVE-2016-3134     The Google Project Zero team found that the netfilter     subsystem does not sufficiently validate filter table     entries. A user with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability could     use this for denial of service (crash) or possibly for     privilege escalation. Debian disables unprivileged user     namespaces by default, if locally enabled with the     kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone sysctl, this allows     privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2016-3156     Solar Designer discovered that the IPv4 implementation     in the Linux kernel did not perform the destruction of     inet device objects properly. An attacker in a guest OS     could use this to cause a denial of service (networking     outage) in the host OS.

  - CVE-2016-3157 / XSA-171     Andy Lutomirski discovered that the x86_64 (amd64) task     switching implementation did not correctly update the     I/O permission level when running as a Xen paravirtual     (PV) guest. In some configurations this would allow     local users to cause a denial of service (crash) or to     escalate their privileges within the guest.

  - CVE-2016-3672     Hector Marco and Ismael Ripoll noted that it was     possible to disable Address Space Layout Randomisation     (ASLR) for x86_32 (i386) programs by removing the stack     resource limit. This made it easier for local users to     exploit security flaws in programs that have the setuid     or setgid flag set.

  - CVE-2016-3951     It was discovered that the cdc_ncm driver would free     memory prematurely if certain errors occurred during its     initialisation. This allowed a physically present user     with a specially designed USB device to cause a denial     of service (crash) or possibly to escalate their     privileges.

  - CVE-2016-3955     Ignat Korchagin reported that the usbip subsystem did     not check the length of data received for a USB buffer.
    This allowed denial of service (crash) or privilege     escalation on a system configured as a usbip client, by     the usbip server or by an attacker able to impersonate     it over the network. A system configured as a usbip     server might be similarly vulnerable to physically     present users.

  - CVE-2016-3961 / XSA-174     Vitaly Kuznetsov of Red Hat discovered that Linux     allowed the use of hugetlbfs on x86 (i386 and amd64)     systems even when running as a Xen paravirtualised (PV)     guest, although Xen does not support huge pages. This     allowed users with access to /dev/hugepages to cause a     denial of service (crash) in the guest.

  - CVE-2016-4470     David Howells of Red Hat discovered that a local user     can trigger a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of key     lookups in the keychain subsystem, leading to a denial     of service (crash) or possibly to privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2016-4482, CVE-2016-4485, CVE-2016-4486,     CVE-2016-4569, CVE-2016-4578, CVE-2016-4580,     CVE-2016-5243, CVE-2016-5244

    Kangjie Lu reported that the USB devio, llc, rtnetlink,     ALSA timer, x25, tipc, and rds facilities leaked     information from the kernel stack.

  - CVE-2016-4565     Jann Horn of Google Project Zero reported that various     components in the InfiniBand stack implemented unusual     semantics for the write() operation. On a system with     InfiniBand drivers loaded, local users could use this     for denial of service or privilege escalation.

  - CVE-2016-4581     Tycho Andersen discovered that in some situations the     Linux kernel did not handle propagated mounts correctly.
    A local user can take advantage of this flaw to cause a     denial of service (system crash).

  - CVE-2016-4805     Baozeng Ding discovered a use-after-free in the generic     PPP layer in the Linux kernel. A local user can take     advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of service     (system crash), or potentially escalate their     privileges.

  - CVE-2016-4913     Al Viro found that the ISO9660 filesystem implementation     did not correctly count the length of certain invalid     name entries. Reading a directory containing such name     entries would leak information from kernel memory. Users     permitted to mount disks or disk images could use this     to obtain sensitive information.

  - CVE-2016-4997 / CVE-2016-4998     Jesse Hertz and Tim Newsham discovered that missing     input sanitising in Netfilter socket handling may result     in denial of service. Debian disables unprivileged user     namespaces by default, if locally enabled with the     kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone sysctl, this also     allows privilege escalation.

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

  - CVE-2016-3955: The usbip_recv_xbuff function in     drivers/usb/usbip/usbip_common.c in the Linux kernel     allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other     impact via a crafted length value in a USB/IP packet     (bnc#975945).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es) :

* A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to gain write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and thus increase their privileges on the system. (CVE-2016-5195, Important)

* It was found that stacking a file system over procfs in the Linux kernel could lead to a kernel stack overflow due to deep nesting, as demonstrated by mounting ecryptfs over procfs and creating a recursion by mapping /proc/environ. An unprivileged, local user could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system.
(CVE-2016-1583, Important)

Red Hat would like to thank Phil Oester for reporting CVE-2016-5195.

Bug Fix(es) :

* In some cases, a kernel crash or file system corruption occurred when running journal mode 'ordered'. The kernel crash was caused by a NULL pointer dereference due to a race condition between two journal functions. The file system corruption occurred due to a race condition between the do_get_write_access() function and buffer writeout. This update fixes both race conditions. As a result, neither the kernel crash, nor the file system corruption now occur. (BZ#1067708)

* Prior to this update, some Global File System 2 (GFS2) files had incorrect time stamp values due to two problems with handling time stamps of such files. The first problem concerned the atime time stamp, which ended up with an arbitrary value ahead of the actual value, when a GFS2 file was accessed. The second problem was related to the mtime and ctime time stamp updates, which got lost when a GFS2 file was written to from one node and read from or written to from another node. With this update, a set of patches has been applied that fix these problems. As a result, the time stamps of GFS2 files are now handled correctly. (BZ#1374861)

Security Fix(es) :

  - A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's     memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write (COW)     breakage of private read-only memory mappings. An     unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to gain     write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and     thus increase their privileges on the system.
    (CVE-2016-5195, Important)

  - It was found that stacking a file system over procfs in     the Linux kernel could lead to a kernel stack overflow     due to deep nesting, as demonstrated by mounting     ecryptfs over procfs and creating a recursion by mapping     /proc/environ. An unprivileged, local user could     potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges     on the system. (CVE-2016-1583, Important)

Bug Fix(es) :

  - In some cases, a kernel crash or file system corruption     occurred when running journal mode 'ordered'. The kernel     crash was caused by a NULL pointer dereference due to a     race condition between two journal functions. The file     system corruption occurred due to a race condition     between the do_get_write_access() function and buffer     writeout. This update fixes both race conditions. As a     result, neither the kernel crash, nor the file system     corruption now occur.

  - Prior to this update, some Global File System 2 (GFS2)     files had incorrect time stamp values due to two     problems with handling time stamps of such files. The     first problem concerned the atime time stamp, which     ended up with an arbitrary value ahead of the actual     value, when a GFS2 file was accessed. The second problem     was related to the mtime and ctime time stamp updates,     which got lost when a GFS2 file was written to from one     node and read from or written to from another node. With     this update, a set of patches has been applied that fix     these problems. As a result, the time stamps of GFS2     files are now handled correctly.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
93168	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:1696-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	8/29/2016	1/6/2021	high
94980	CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2016:2766)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	11/21/2016	1/4/2021	high
141697	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.2 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2020-2222)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	10/21/2020	1/6/2021	high
95050	Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20161115)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	11/22/2016	1/14/2021	high
91886	Debian DSA-3607-1 : linux - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	6/29/2016	1/11/2021	critical
93370	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:2245-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	9/8/2016	1/19/2021	critical
94409	CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2016:2124) (Dirty COW)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	10/31/2016	3/8/2022	high
94432	Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20161028) (Dirty COW)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	10/31/2016	3/8/2022	high

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