SUSE-SU-2017:0407-1: kernel-compute_debug&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 12 SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise

Vulnerability summary

SUSE-SU-2017:0407-1 is a vulnerability in kernel-compute_debug&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 12 SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise with no CVSS score yet.

Timeline

1. 06-02-2017
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 04-02-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Security update for the Linux Kernel The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 rt-kernel was updated to 3.12.69 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2015-8962: Fixed a double free vulnerability in the SCSI subsystem that allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) (bnc#1010501). - CVE-2015-8963: Fixed a race condition in kernel/events/core.c that allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) (bnc#1010502). - CVE-2015-8964: Fixed a bug in the tty_set_termios_ldisc function that allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory (bnc#1010507). - CVE-2016-10088: The sg implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict write operations in situations where the KERNEL_DS option is set, which allowed local users to read or write to arbitrary kernel memory locations or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) (bnc#1017710). - CVE-2016-7910: Fixed a use-after-free vulnerability in the block subsystem that allowed local users to gain privileges (bnc#1010716). - CVE-2016-7911: Fixed a race condition in the get_task_ioprio function that allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) (bnc#1010711). - CVE-2016-7913: Fixed a bug in the xc2028_set_config function that allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) (bnc#1010478). - CVE-2016-7914: The assoc_array_insert_into_terminal_node function did not check whether a slot is a leaf, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and out-of-bounds read) (bnc#1010475). - CVE-2016-8399: Fixed a bug in the kernel networking subsystem that could have enabled a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. (bnc#1014746). - CVE-2016-8632: The net subsystem did not validate the relationship between the minimum fragment length and the maximum packet size, which allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) (bnc#1008831). - CVE-2016-8633: The firewire subsystem allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted fragmented packets in certain unusual hardware configurations (bnc#1008833). - CVE-2016-8645: The TCP stack in the Linux kernel mishandled skb truncation, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) (bnc#1009969). - CVE-2016-8655: Fixed a race condition in the network subsystem that allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) (bnc#1012754). - CVE-2016-9083: The PCI subsystem local users to bypass integer overflow checks and cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or have unspecified other impact (bnc#1007197). - CVE-2016-9084: The PCI subsystem misused the kzalloc() function, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (integer overflow) or have unspecified other impact (bnc#1007197). - CVE-2016-9555: Fixed a bug in the network subsystem that allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds slab access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted SCTP data (bnc#1011685). - CVE-2016-9576: The block subsystem did not properly restrict the type of iterator, which allowed local users to read or write to arbitrary kernel memory locations or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) (bnc#1013604). - CVE-2016-9756: The kernel did not properly initialize Code Segment (CS) in certain error cases, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory (bnc#1013038). - CVE-2016-9793: The net subsystem mishandled negative values of sk_sndbuf and sk_rcvbuf, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact (bnc#1013531). - CVE-2016-9794: Fixed a race condition in the ALSA subsystem that allowed local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact (bnc#1013533). - CVE-2016-9806: Fixed a race condition in the netlink_dump() function which could have allowed local users to cause a denial of service (double free) or possibly have unspecified other impact (bnc#1013540). - CVE-2017-2583: kvm: x86: fixed emulation of 'MOV SS, null selector' (bsc#1020602). - CVE-2017-2584: arch: x86: kvm: fixed a bug that could have allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) (bnc#1019851). - CVE-2017-5551: tmpfs: Fixed a bug that could have allowed users to set setgid bits on files they don't down. (bsc#1021258, CVE-2017-5551). The following non-security bugs were fixed: - 8250_pci: Fix potential use-after-free in error path (bsc#1013001). - block_dev: do not test bdev->bd_contains when it is not stable (bsc#1008557). - bna: Add synchronization for tx ring (bsc#993739). - bnx2i/bnx2fc : fix randconfig error in next-20140909 (bsc#922052 bsc#922056). - bnx2x: Correct ringparam estimate when DOWN (bsc#1020214). - bnx2x: fix lockdep splat (bsc#922052 bsc#922056). - btrfs: Ensure proper sector alignment for btrfs_free_reserved_data_space (bsc#1005666). - btrfs: Export and move leaf/subtree qgroup helpers to qgroup.c (bsc#983087). - btrfs: Revert 'do not delay inode ref updates during log replay' (bsc#987192). - btrfs: bugfix: handle FS_IOC32_{GETFLAGS,SETFLAGS,GETVERSION} in btrfs_ioctl (bsc#1018100). - btrfs: do not delay inode ref updates during log replay (bsc#987192). - btrfs: fix incremental send failure caused by balance (bsc#985850). - btrfs: fix relocation incorrectly dropping data references (bsc#990384). - btrfs: increment ctx->pos for every emitted or skipped dirent in readdir (bsc#981709). - btrfs: qgroup: Fix qgroup data leaking by using subtree tracing (bsc#983087). - btrfs: remove old tree_root dirent processing in btrfs_real_readdir() (bsc#981709). - btrfs: send, do not bug on inconsistent snapshots (bsc#985850). - cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix divide by zero on Knights Landing (KNL) (bsc#1008876). - cpuset: fix sched_load_balance that was accidentally broken in a previous update (bsc#1010294). - ext4: fix data exposure after a crash (bsc#1012985). - fs/dcache: move the call of __d_drop(anon) into __d_materialise_unique(dentry, anon) (bsc#984194). - fuse: do not use iocb after it may have been freed (bsc#1012985). - hpilo: Add support for iLO5 (bsc#999101). - ib/core: Avoid unsigned int overflow in sg_alloc_table (bsc#924381 bsc#921338). - ib/mlx5: Fix FW version diaplay in sysfs (bnc#923036). - ib/mlx5: Fix entries check in mlx5_ib_resize_cq (bnc#858727). - ib/mlx5: Fix entries checks in mlx5_ib_create_cq (bnc#858727). - ib/mlx5: Remove per-MR pas and dma pointers (bnc#923036). - ibmveth: calculate gso_segs for large packets (bsc#1019148). - ibmveth: check return of skb_linearize in ibmveth_start_xmit (bsc#1019148). - ibmveth: consolidate kmalloc of array, memset 0 to kcalloc (bsc#1019148). - ibmveth: set correct gso_size and gso_type (bsc#1019148). - igb: Fix oops caused by missing queue pairing (bnc#857394). - ipmi_si: create hardware-independent softdep for ipmi_devintf (bsc#1009062). - ipr: Enable SIS pipe commands for SIS-32 devices (bsc#1016961). - ipv4: Fix ip_queue_xmit to pass sk into ip_local_out_sk (bsc#938963). - kabi: protect __sk_mem_reclaim (kabi). - kabi: protect struct perf_event_context (kabi). - kabi: reintroduce sk_filter (kabi). - kernel: remove broken memory detection sanity check (bnc#1008567, LTC#148072). - kgr: ignore zombie tasks during the patching (bnc#1008979). - kgraft/iscsi-target: Do not block kGraft in iscsi_np kthread (bsc#1010612). - kgraft/xen: Do not block kGraft in xenbus kthread (bsc#1017410). - net/mlx5: Avoid passing dma address 0 to firmware (bnc#858727). - net/mlx5: Fix typo in mlx5_query_port_pvlc (bnc#923036). - net/mlx5e: Do not modify CQ before it was created (bnc#923036). - net/mlx5e: Do not try to modify CQ moderation if it is not supported (bnc#923036). - net/mlx5e: Fix MLX5E_100BASE_T define (bnc#923036). - net/mlx5e: Remove wrong poll CQ optimization (bnc#923036). - netback: correct array index (bsc#983348). - nfsv4: Cap the transport reconnection timer at 1/2 lease period (bsc#1014410). - nfsv4: Cleanup the setting of the nfs4 lease period (bsc#1014410). - nfsv4: Fix 'NFS Lock reclaim failed' errors (bsc#1014410). - ocfs2: fix BUG_ON() in ocfs2_ci_checkpointed() (bnc#1019783). - posix_acl: Fixup acl reference leak and missing conversions in ext3, gfs2, jfs, hfsplus. - powerpc/pseries: Use H_CLEAR_HPT to clear MMU hash table during kexec (bsc#1003813). - proc: avoid including 'mountproto=' with no protocol in /proc/mounts (bsc#1019260). - raid1: ignore discard error (bsc#1017164). - reiserfs: fix race in prealloc discard (bsc#987576). - rpm/kernel-binary.spec.in: Export a make-stderr.log file (bsc#1012422) - rpm/kernel-spec-macros: Fix the check if there is no rebuild counter (bsc#1012060) - rpm/kernel-spec-macros: Ignore too high rebuild counter (bsc#1012060) - serial: 8250_pci: Detach low-level driver during PCI error recovery (bsc#1013001). - sfc: clear napi_hash state when copying channels (bsc#923037). - sfc: fix potential stack corruption from running past stat bitmask (bsc#923037). - sfc: on MC reset, clear PIO buffer linkage in TXQs (bnc#856380). - sunrpc: Enforce an upper limit on the number of cached credentials (bsc#1012917). - sunrpc: Fix reconnection timeouts (bsc#1014410). - sunrpc: Limit the reconnect backoff timer to the max RPC message timeout (bsc#1014410). - target: Make EXTENDED_COPY 0xe4 failure return COPY TARGET DEVICE NOT REACHABLE (bsc#991273). - target: add XCOPY target/segment desc sense codes (bsc#991273). - target: bounds check XCOPY segment descriptor list (bsc#991273). - target: bounds check XCOPY total descriptor list length (bsc#991273). - target: check XCOPY segment descriptor CSCD IDs (bsc#1017170). - target: check for XCOPY parameter truncation (bsc#991273). - target: return UNSUPPORTED TARGET/SEGMENT DESC TYPE CODE sense (bsc#991273). - target: simplify XCOPY wwn->se_dev lookup helper (bsc#991273). - target: support XCOPY requests without parameters (bsc#991273). - target: use XCOPY TOO MANY TARGET DESCRIPTORS sense (bsc#991273). - target: use XCOPY segment descriptor CSCD IDs (bsc#1017170). - tg3: Avoid NULL pointer dereference in tg3_io_error_detected() (bsc#921778). - tty: Prevent ldisc drivers from re-using stale tty fields (bnc#1010507). - x86/apic: Order irq_enter/exit() calls correctly vs. ack_APIC_irq() (bsc#1013479). - xen/ftrace/x86: Set ftrace_stub to weak to prevent gcc from using short jumps to it (bsc#984419). - xenbus: correctly signal errors from xenstored_local_init() (luckily none so far). - xfs: allow lazy sb counter sync during filesystem freeze sequence (bsc#980560). - xfs: refactor xlog_recover_process_data() (bsc#1019300).

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