The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 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-2019-16995: Fix a memory leak in hsr_dev_finalize() if hsr_add_port failed to add a port, 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.

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

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

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#1146519).

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

CVE-2019-13272: Fixed a mishandled the recording of the credentials of a process that wants to create a ptrace relationship, which allowed local users to obtain root access by leveraging certain scenarios with a parent-child process relationship, where a parent drops privileges and calls execve (potentially allowing control by an attacker).
(bnc#1140671).

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-2019-15924: A a NULL pointer dereference has been fixed in the drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k module (bnc#1149612).

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-2019-15666: There was an out-of-bounds array access in the net/xfrm module that could cause denial of service (bnc#1148394).

CVE-2019-15219: A NULL pointer dereference was fixed that could be abused by a malicious USB device (bnc#1146519 1146524).

CVE-2019-15220: A use-after-free issue was fixed that could be caused by a malicious USB device (bnc#1146519 1146526).

CVE-2019-15221: A NULL pointer dereference was fixed that could be caused by a malicious USB device (bnc#1146519 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-2019-15211: A use-after-free issue caused by a malicious USB device was fixed in the drivers/media/v4l2-core driver (bnc#1146519).

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-2019-15214: An a use-after-free issue in the sound subsystem was fixed (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-2019-0154: An unprotected read access to i915 registers has been fixed that could have been abused to facilitate a local denial-of-service attack. (bsc#1135966)

CVE-2019-0155: A privilege escalation vulnerability has been fixed in the i915 module that allowed batch buffers from user mode to gain super user privileges. (bsc#1135967)

CVE-2019-16231: The fjes driver did not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. (bnc#1150466)

CVE-2019-18805: Fix signed integer overflow in tcp_ack_update_rtt() that could have lead to a denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact (bsc#1156187)

CVE-2019-18680: A NULL pointer dereference in rds_tcp_kill_sock() could cause denial of service (bnc#1155898)

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-2019-14835: A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Linux kernel's vhost functionality that translates virtqueue buffers to IOVs, logged the buffer descriptors during migration. A privileged guest user able to pass descriptors with invalid length to the host when migration is underway, could have used this flaw to increase their privileges on the host (bnc#1150112).

CVE-2019-15216: There was a NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c driver (bnc#1146361).

CVE-2019-15924: fm10k_init_module in drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c had a NULL pointer dereference because there was no -ENOMEM upon an alloc_workqueue failure (bnc#1149612).

CVE-2019-9456: In the Pixel C USB monitor driver there was a possible OOB write due to a missing bounds check. This could have led to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation (bnc#1150025).

CVE-2019-15031: In the Linux kernel on the powerpc platform, a local user could have read vector registers of other users' processes via an interrupt. To exploit the vulnerability, a local user starts a transaction (via the hardware transactional memory instruction tbegin) and then accesses vector registers. At some point, the vector registers will be corrupted with the values from a different local Linux process, because MSR_TM_ACTIVE was misused in arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c (bnc#1149713).

CVE-2019-15030: In the Linux kernel on the powerpc platform, a local user could have read vector registers of other users' processes via a Facility Unavailable exception. To exploit the venerability, a local user starts a transaction (via the hardware transactional memory instruction tbegin) and then accesses vector registers. At some point, the vector registers will be corrupted with the values from a different local Linux process because of a missing arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c check (bnc#1149713).

CVE-2019-15920: SMB2_read in fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c had a use-after-free.
(bnc#1149626).

CVE-2019-15921: There was a memory leak issue when idr_alloc() fails in genl_register_family() in net/netlink/genetlink.c (bnc#1149602).

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

CVE-2019-15919: SMB2_write in fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c had a use-after-free (bnc#1149552).

CVE-2019-15917: There was a use-after-free issue when hci_uart_register_dev() fails in hci_uart_set_proto() in drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c (bnc#1149539).

CVE-2019-15926: An out-of-bounds access existed in the functions ath6kl_wmi_pstream_timeout_event_rx and ath6kl_wmi_cac_event_rx in the file drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/wmi.c (bnc#1149527).

CVE-2019-15927: An out-of-bounds access existed in the function build_audio_procunit in the file sound/usb/mixer.c (bnc#1149522).

CVE-2019-15902: Misuse of the upstream 'x86/ptrace: Fix possible spectre-v1 in ptrace_get_debugreg()' commit reintroduced the Spectre vulnerability that it 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-2019-15666: There was an out-of-bounds array access in
__xfrm_policy_unlink, which will cause denial of service, because verify_newpolicy_info in net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c mishandled directory validation (bnc#1148394).

CVE-2019-15219: There was a NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c driver (bnc#1146524).

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

CVE-2019-14815: There was a heap-based buffer overflow in the Marvell wifi chip driver, that allowed local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(bsc#1146514)

CVE-2019-14816: There was a heap-based buffer overflow in the Marvell wifi chip driver, that allowed local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code (bnc#1146516).

CVE-2019-15220: There was a use-after-free caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/net/wireless/intersil/p54/p54usb.c driver (bnc#1146526).

CVE-2019-15538: An issue was discovered in xfs_setattr_nonsize in fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c in the Linux kernel XFS partially wedges when a chgrp fails on account of being out of disk quota. xfs_setattr_nonsize is failing to unlock the ILOCK after the xfs_qm_vop_chown_reserve call fails. This is primarily a local DoS attack vector, but it might result as well in remote DoS if the XFS filesystem is exported for instance via NFS (bnc#1148093).

  - Update reference for ath6kl fix     (CVE-2019-15290,bsc#1146543).

  - Update reference for ath6kl fix     (CVE-2019-15290,bsc#1146543).

CVE-2019-15099: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/usb.c had a NULL pointer dereference via an incomplete address in an endpoint descriptor (bnc#1146368).

CVE-2019-15098: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/usb.c had a NULL pointer dereference via an incomplete address in an endpoint descriptor (bnc#1146378).

CVE-2019-15239: An incorrect backport of a certain net/ipv4/tcp_output.c fix allowed a local attacker to trigger multiple use-after-free conditions. This could result in a kernel crash, or potentially in privilege escalation. (bsc#1146589)

CVE-2019-15212: There was a double-free caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/usb/misc/rio500.c driver (bnc#1146391).

CVE-2019-15292: There was a use-after-free in atalk_proc_exit, related to net/appletalk/atalk_proc.c, net/appletalk/ddp.c, and net/appletalk/sysctl_net_atalk.c (bnc#1146678).

CVE-2019-15217: There was a NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/media/usb/zr364xx/zr364xx.c driver (bnc#1146547).

CVE-2019-15211: There was a use-after-free caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c driver because drivers/media/radio/radio-raremono.c did not properly allocate memory (bnc#1146519).

CVE-2019-15214: There was a use-after-free in the sound subsystem because card disconnection causes certain data structures to be deleted too early. This is related to sound/core/init.c and sound/core/info.c (bnc#1146550).

CVE-2019-15221: There was a NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device in the sound/usb/line6/pcm.c driver (bnc#1146529).

CVE-2019-15222: There was a NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device in the sound/usb/helper.c (motu_microbookii) driver (bnc#1146531).

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

CVE-2019-15215: There was a use-after-free caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/media/usb/cpia2/cpia2_usb.c driver (bnc#1146425).

CVE-2019-15090: An issue was discovered in drivers/scsi/qedi/qedi_dbg.c in the qedi_dbg_* family of functions, there is an out-of-bounds read (bnc#1146399).

CVE-2018-20976: An issue was discovered in fs/xfs/xfs_super.c. A use after free exists, related to xfs_fs_fill_super failure (bnc#1146285).

CVE-2017-18551: An issue was discovered in drivers/i2c/i2c-core-smbus.c. There was an out of bounds write in the function i2c_smbus_xfer_emulated (bnc#1146163).

CVE-2019-15118: check_input_term in sound/usb/mixer.c mishandled recursion, leading to kernel stack exhaustion (bnc#1145922).

CVE-2019-15117: parse_audio_mixer_unit in sound/usb/mixer.c mishandled a short descriptor, leading to out-of-bounds memory access (bnc#1145920).

CVE-2019-10207: Bluetooth/hci_uart was missing a check for tty operations (bsc#1142857).

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.

Wen Huang discovered that the Marvell Wi-Fi device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly perform bounds checking, leading to a heap overflow. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-14814, CVE-2019-14815, CVE-2019-14816)

Matt Delco discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly perform bounds checking when handling coalesced MMIO write operations. A local attacker with write access to /dev/kvm could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
(CVE-2019-14821)

Hui Peng and Mathias Payer discovered that the 91x Wi-Fi driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle error conditions on initialization, leading to a double-free vulnerability. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2019-15504)

It was discovered that the Technisat DVB-S/S2 USB device driver in the Linux kernel contained a buffer overread. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly expose sensitive information. (CVE-2019-15505)

Brad Spengler discovered that a Spectre mitigation was improperly implemented in the ptrace susbsystem of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information.
(CVE-2019-15902)

It was discovered that the IPv6 RDS implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize fields in a data structure returned to user space. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (kernel memory). Please note that the RDS protocol is blacklisted in Ubuntu by default. (CVE-2019-16714)

It was discovered that an integer overflow existed in the Binder implementation of the Linux kernel, leading to a buffer overflow. A local attacker could use this to escalate privileges. (CVE-2019-2181).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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
131120	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:2984-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	11/18/2019	1/19/2023	critical
130163	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:2738-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	10/23/2019	4/17/2024	critical
130003	Ubuntu 19.04 : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4157-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	10/17/2019	4/18/2024	critical

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