Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-5157 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S in the Linux kernel before 4.1.6 on the x86_64 platform mishandles IRET faults in processing NMIs that occurred during userspace execution, which might allow local users to gain privileges by triggering an NMI.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Accessing, Modifying or Executing Executable Files An attack of this type exploits a system's configuration that allows an attacker to either directly access an executable file, for example through shell access; or in a possible worst case allows an attacker to upload a file and then execute it. Web servers, ftp servers, and message oriented middleware systems which have many integration points are particularly vulnerable, because both the programmers and the administrators must be in synch regarding the interfaces and the correct privileges for each interface.
- Leverage Executable Code in Non-Executable Files An attack of this type exploits a system's trust in configuration and resource files, when the executable loads the resource (such as an image file or configuration file) the attacker has modified the file to either execute malicious code directly or manipulate the target process (e.g. application server) to execute based on the malicious configuration parameters. Since systems are increasingly interrelated mashing up resources from local and remote sources the possibility of this attack occurring is high. The attack can be directed at a client system, such as causing buffer overrun through loading seemingly benign image files, as in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-028 where specially crafted JPEG files could cause a buffer overrun once loaded into the browser. Another example targets clients reading pdf files. In this case the attacker simply appends javascript to the end of a legitimate url for a pdf (http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/danger-danger-danger/) http://path/to/pdf/file.pdf#whatever_name_you_want=javascript:your_code_here The client assumes that they are reading a pdf, but the attacker has modified the resource and loaded executable javascript into the client's browser process. The attack can also target server processes. The attacker edits the resource or configuration file, for example a web.xml file used to configure security permissions for a J2EE app server, adding role name "public" grants all users with the public role the ability to use the administration functionality. The server trusts its configuration file to be correct, but when they are manipulated, the attacker gains full control.
- Blue Boxing This type of attack against older telephone switches and trunks has been around for decades. A tone is sent by an adversary to impersonate a supervisor signal which has the effect of rerouting or usurping command of the line. While the US infrastructure proper may not contain widespread vulnerabilities to this type of attack, many companies are connected globally through call centers and business process outsourcing. These international systems may be operated in countries which have not upgraded Telco infrastructure and so are vulnerable to Blue boxing. Blue boxing is a result of failure on the part of the system to enforce strong authorization for administrative functions. While the infrastructure is different than standard current applications like web applications, there are historical lessons to be learned to upgrade the access control for administrative functions.
- Restful Privilege Elevation Rest uses standard HTTP (Get, Put, Delete) style permissions methods, but these are not necessarily correlated generally with back end programs. Strict interpretation of HTTP get methods means that these HTTP Get services should not be used to delete information on the server, but there is no access control mechanism to back up this logic. This means that unless the services are properly ACL'd and the application's service implementation are following these guidelines then an HTTP request can easily execute a delete or update on the server side. The attacker identifies a HTTP Get URL such as http://victimsite/updateOrder, which calls out to a program to update orders on a database or other resource. The URL is not idempotent so the request can be submitted multiple times by the attacker, additionally, the attacker may be able to exploit the URL published as a Get method that actually performs updates (instead of merely retrieving data). This may result in malicious or inadvertent altering of data on the server.
- Target Programs with Elevated Privileges This attack targets programs running with elevated privileges. The attacker would try to leverage a bug in the running program and get arbitrary code to execute with elevated privileges. For instance an attacker would look for programs that write to the system directories or registry keys (such as HKLM, which stores a number of critical Windows environment variables). These programs are typically running with elevated privileges and have usually not been designed with security in mind. Such programs are excellent exploit targets because they yield lots of power when they break. The malicious user try to execute its code at the same level as a privileged system call.
Nessus
NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-2700-1.NASL description Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 85158 published 2015-07-31 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2015-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/85158 title Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2700-1) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2700-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See # <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered # trademark of Canonical, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(85158); script_version("2.8"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/18 12:31:44"); script_cve_id("CVE-2015-3290", "CVE-2015-3291", "CVE-2015-5157"); script_xref(name:"USN", value:"2700-1"); script_name(english:"Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2700-1)"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of nested NMIs (non-maskable interrupts). An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or potentially escalate their privileges. (CVE-2015-3290) Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw that allows user to cause the Linux kernel to ignore some NMIs (non-maskable interrupts). A local unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to potentially cause the system to miss important NMIs resulting in unspecified effects. (CVE-2015-3291) Andy Lutomirski and Petr Matousek discovered that an NMI (non-maskable interrupt) that interrupts userspace and encounters an IRET fault is incorrectly handled by the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (kernel OOPs), corruption, or potentially escalate privileges on the system. (CVE-2015-5157). 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." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://usn.ubuntu.com/2700-1/" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "Update the affected linux-image-3.13-generic, linux-image-3.13-generic-lpae and / or linux-image-3.13-lowlatency packages." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-3.13-generic"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-3.13-generic-lpae"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-3.13-lowlatency"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2015/08/31"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/07/30"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/07/31"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2015-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl", "linux_alt_patch_detect.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("ubuntu.inc"); include("ksplice.inc"); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release"); if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu"); release = chomp(release); if (! preg(pattern:"^(14\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 14.04", "Ubuntu " + release); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu); if (get_one_kb_item("Host/ksplice/kernel-cves")) { rm_kb_item(name:"Host/uptrack-uname-r"); cve_list = make_list("CVE-2015-3290", "CVE-2015-3291", "CVE-2015-5157"); if (ksplice_cves_check(cve_list)) { audit(AUDIT_PATCH_INSTALLED, "KSplice hotfix for USN-2700-1"); } else { _ubuntu_report = ksplice_reporting_text(); } } flag = 0; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"14.04", pkgname:"linux-image-3.13.0-61-generic", pkgver:"3.13.0-61.100")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"14.04", pkgname:"linux-image-3.13.0-61-generic-lpae", pkgver:"3.13.0-61.100")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"14.04", pkgname:"linux-image-3.13.0-61-lowlatency", pkgver:"3.13.0-61.100")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_HOLE, extra : ubuntu_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "linux-image-3.13-generic / linux-image-3.13-generic-lpae / etc"); }NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2016-0212.NASL description Updated kernel-rt packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. The kernel-rt packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. * It was found that the Linux kernel last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 88791 published 2016-02-17 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/88791 title RHEL 7 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2016:0212) NASL family F5 Networks Local Security Checks NASL id F5_BIGIP_SOL17326.NASL description arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S in the Linux kernel before 4.1.6 on the x86_64 platform mishandles IRET faults in processing NMIs that occurred during userspace execution, which might allow local users to gain privileges by triggering an NMI. (CVE-2015-5157) last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 95963 published 2016-12-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/95963 title F5 Networks BIG-IP : Linux kernel vulnerability (K17326) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-3313.NASL description Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation or denial of service. - CVE-2015-3290 Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel does not properly handle nested NMIs. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw for privilege escalation. - CVE-2015-3291 Andy Lutomirski discovered that under certain conditions a malicious userspace program can cause the kernel to skip NMIs leading to a denial of service. - CVE-2015-4167 Carl Henrik Lunde discovered that the UDF implementation is missing a necessary length check. A local user that can mount devices could use this flaw to crash the system. - CVE-2015-5157 Petr Matousek and Andy Lutomirski discovered that an NMI that interrupts userspace and encounters an IRET fault is incorrectly handled. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw for denial of service or possibly for privilege escalation. - CVE-2015-5364 It was discovered that the Linux kernel does not properly handle invalid UDP checksums. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service using a flood of UDP packets with invalid checksums. - CVE-2015-5366 It was discovered that the Linux kernel does not properly handle invalid UDP checksums. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service against applications that use epoll by injecting a single packet with an invalid checksum. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 84965 published 2015-07-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/84965 title Debian DSA-3313-1 : linux - security update NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2016-0185.NASL description Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. * It was found that the Linux kernel last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 88786 published 2016-02-17 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/88786 title RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2016:0185) NASL family Scientific Linux Local Security Checks NASL id SL_20160504_KERNEL_ON_SL6_X.NASL description Security Fix(es) : - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled IRET faults during the processing of NMIs. An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially (although highly unlikely), escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2015-5157, Moderate) - A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel last seen 2020-03-18 modified 2016-05-06 plugin id 90939 published 2016-05-06 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/90939 title Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20160504) NASL family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2016-3519.NASL description Description of changes: kernel-uek [3.8.13-118.3.2.el7uek] - x86/nmi/64: Use DF to avoid userspace RSP confusing nested NMI detection (Andy Lutomirski) [Orabug: 22742507] {CVE-2015-5157} - x86/nmi/64: Reorder nested NMI checks (Andy Lutomirski) [Orabug: 22742507] {CVE-2015-5157} - x86/nmi/64: Improve nested NMI comments (Andy Lutomirski) [Orabug: 22742507] {CVE-2015-5157} - x86/nmi/64: Switch stacks on userspace NMI entry (Andy Lutomirski) [Orabug: 22742507] {CVE-2015-5157} - x86/paravirt: Replace the paravirt nop with a bona fide empty function (Andy Lutomirski) [Orabug: 22742507] {CVE-2015-5157} last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 88857 published 2016-02-19 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/88857 title Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2016-3519) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-2701-1.NASL description Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 85159 published 2015-07-31 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2015-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/85159 title Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2701-1) NASL family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2016-0185.NASL description From Red Hat Security Advisory 2016:0185 : Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. * It was found that the Linux kernel last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 88778 published 2016-02-17 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/88778 title Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2016-0185) NASL family OracleVM Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLEVM_OVMSA-2016-0014.NASL description The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - x86/nmi/64: Use DF to avoid userspace RSP confusing nested NMI detection (Andy Lutomirski) [Orabug: 22742507] (CVE-2015-5157) - x86/nmi/64: Reorder nested NMI checks (Andy Lutomirski) [Orabug: 22742507] (CVE-2015-5157) - x86/nmi/64: Improve nested NMI comments (Andy Lutomirski) [Orabug: 22742507] (CVE-2015-5157) - x86/nmi/64: Switch stacks on userspace NMI entry (Andy Lutomirski) [Orabug: 22742507] (CVE-2015-5157) - x86/paravirt: Replace the paravirt nop with a bona fide empty function (Andy Lutomirski) [Orabug: 22742507] (CVE-2015-5157) last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 88858 published 2016-02-19 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/88858 title OracleVM 3.3 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2016-0014) NASL family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2018-4109.NASL description The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update for the Unbreakable Enterprise kernel package(s). last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 109829 published 2018-05-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/109829 title Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4109) (Meltdown) (Spectre) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2016-124.NASL description The openSUSE 13.1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-0728: A reference leak in keyring handling with join_session_keyring() could lead to local attackers gain root privileges. (bsc#962075). - CVE-2015-7550: A local user could have triggered a race between read and revoke in keyctl (bnc#958951). - CVE-2015-8569: The (1) pptp_bind and (2) pptp_connect functions in drivers/net/ppp/pptp.c in the Linux kernel did not verify an address length, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory and bypass the KASLR protection mechanism via a crafted application (bnc#959190). - CVE-2015-8543: The networking implementation in the Linux kernel did not validate protocol identifiers for certain protocol families, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL function pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly gain privileges by leveraging CLONE_NEWUSER support to execute a crafted SOCK_RAW application (bnc#958886). - CVE-2014-8989: The Linux kernel did not properly restrict dropping of supplemental group memberships in certain namespace scenarios, which allowed local users to bypass intended file permissions by leveraging a POSIX ACL containing an entry for the group category that is more restrictive than the entry for the other category, aka a last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-02-03 plugin id 88545 published 2016-02-03 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/88545 title openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-124) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-1488.NASL description According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled IRET faults during the processing of NMIs. An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially (although highly unlikely), escalate their privileges on the system.(CVE-2015-5157) - A denial of service vulnerability was found in the WhiteHEAT USB Serial Driver (whiteheat_attach function in drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c). In the driver, the COMMAND_PORT variable was hard coded and set to 4 (5th element). The driver assumed that the number of ports would always be 5 and used port number 5 as the command port. However, when using a USB device in which the number of ports was set to a number less than 5 (for example, 3), the driver triggered a kernel NULL-pointer dereference. A non-privileged attacker could use this flaw to panic the host.(CVE-2015-5257) - A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the SCTP implementation. A local user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service on the system by triggering a kernel panic when creating multiple sockets in parallel while the system did not have the SCTP module loaded.(CVE-2015-5283) - It was found that the x86 ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) is prone to a denial of service attack inside a virtualized environment in the form of an infinite loop in the microcode due to the way (sequential) delivering of benign exceptions such as #AC (alignment check exception) is handled. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to create denial of service conditions on the host kernel.(CVE-2015-5307) - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 124812 published 2019-05-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/124812 title EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1488) NASL family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2018-4020.NASL description Description of changes: [2.6.39-400.298.2.el6uek] - x86: Use PRED_CMD MSR when ibpb is enabled (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk) [Orabug: 27369777] {CVE-2017-5715} {CVE-2017-5753} - x86/spec: Don last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 106328 published 2018-01-25 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/106328 title Oracle Linux 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4020) (Meltdown) (Spectre) NASL family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2016-0715.NASL description From Red Hat Security Advisory 2016:0715 : 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 Moderate. 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 flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled IRET faults during the processing of NMIs. An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially (although highly unlikely), escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2015-5157, Moderate) * A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 90880 published 2016-05-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/90880 title Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2016-0715) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2016-136.NASL description The openSUSE 13.2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-0728: A reference leak in keyring handling with join_session_keyring() could lead to local attackers gain root privileges. (bsc#962075). - CVE-2015-7550: A local user could have triggered a race between read and revoke in keyctl (bnc#958951). - CVE-2015-8569: The (1) pptp_bind and (2) pptp_connect functions in drivers/net/ppp/pptp.c in the Linux kernel did not verify an address length, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory and bypass the KASLR protection mechanism via a crafted application (bnc#959190). - CVE-2015-8543: The networking implementation in the Linux kernel did not validate protocol identifiers for certain protocol families, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL function pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly gain privileges by leveraging CLONE_NEWUSER support to execute a crafted SOCK_RAW application (bnc#958886). - CVE-2014-8989: The Linux kernel did not properly restrict dropping of supplemental group memberships in certain namespace scenarios, which allowed local users to bypass intended file permissions by leveraging a POSIX ACL containing an entry for the group category that is more restrictive than the entry for the other category, aka a last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-02-08 plugin id 88605 published 2016-02-08 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/88605 title openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2016-136) NASL family OracleVM Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLEVM_OVMSA-2018-0016.NASL description The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - x86: Add another set of MSR accessor functions (Borislav Petkov) [Orabug: 27444923] (CVE-2017-5753) - userns: prevent speculative execution (Elena Reshetova) [Orabug: 27444923] (CVE-2017-5753) - udf: prevent speculative execution (Elena Reshetova) [Orabug: 27444923] (CVE-2017-5753) - fs: prevent speculative execution (Elena Reshetova) [Orabug: 27444923] (CVE-2017-5753) - qla2xxx: prevent speculative execution (Elena Reshetova) [Orabug: 27444923] (CVE-2017-5753) - p54: prevent speculative execution (Elena Reshetova) [Orabug: 27444923] (CVE-2017-5753) - carl9170: prevent speculative execution (Elena Reshetova) [Orabug: 27444923] (CVE-2017-5753) - uvcvideo: prevent speculative execution (Elena Reshetova) [Orabug: 27444923] (CVE-2017-5753) - locking/barriers: introduce new observable speculation barrier (Elena Reshetova) [Orabug: 27444923] (CVE-2017-5753) - x86/cpu/AMD: Remove now unused definition of MFENCE_RDTSC feature (Elena Reshetova) [Orabug: 27444923] (CVE-2017-5753) - x86/cpu/AMD: Make the LFENCE instruction serialized (Elena Reshetova) [Orabug: 27444923] (CVE-2017-5753) - x86/rsb: add comment specifying why we skip STUFF_RSB (Ankur Arora) [Orabug: 27451658] (CVE-2017-5715) - x86/rsb: make STUFF_RSB jmp labels more robust (Ankur Arora) [Orabug: 27451658] (CVE-2017-5715) - x86/spec: Also print IBRS if IBPB is disabled. (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk) (CVE-2017-5715) - x86/spectre: Drop the warning about ibrs being obsolete. (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk) (CVE-2017-5715) - Add set_ibrs_disabled and set_ibpb_disabled (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk) [Orabug: 27376697] (CVE-2017-5715) - x86/spec: Don last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 106524 published 2018-01-31 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/106524 title OracleVM 3.3 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0016) (Meltdown) (Spectre) NASL family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2018-4022.NASL description Description of changes: kernel-uek [3.8.13-118.20.2.el7uek] - x86: Add another set of MSR accessor functions (Borislav Petkov) [Orabug: 27444923] {CVE-2017-5753} - userns: prevent speculative execution (Elena Reshetova) [Orabug: 27444923] {CVE-2017-5753} - udf: prevent speculative execution (Elena Reshetova) [Orabug: 27444923] {CVE-2017-5753} - fs: prevent speculative execution (Elena Reshetova) [Orabug: 27444923] {CVE-2017-5753} - qla2xxx: prevent speculative execution (Elena Reshetova) [Orabug: 27444923] {CVE-2017-5753} - p54: prevent speculative execution (Elena Reshetova) [Orabug: 27444923] {CVE-2017-5753} - carl9170: prevent speculative execution (Elena Reshetova) [Orabug: 27444923] {CVE-2017-5753} - uvcvideo: prevent speculative execution (Elena Reshetova) [Orabug: 27444923] {CVE-2017-5753} - locking/barriers: introduce new observable speculation barrier (Elena Reshetova) [Orabug: 27444923] {CVE-2017-5753} - x86/cpu/AMD: Remove now unused definition of MFENCE_RDTSC feature (Elena Reshetova) [Orabug: 27444923] {CVE-2017-5753} - x86/cpu/AMD: Make the LFENCE instruction serialized (Elena Reshetova) [Orabug: 27444923] {CVE-2017-5753} - x86/rsb: add comment specifying why we skip STUFF_RSB (Ankur Arora) [Orabug: 27451658] {CVE-2017-5715} - x86/rsb: make STUFF_RSB jmp labels more robust (Ankur Arora) [Orabug: 27451658] {CVE-2017-5715} - x86/spec: Also print IBRS if IBPB is disabled. (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk) {CVE-2017-5715} - x86/spectre: Drop the warning about ibrs being obsolete. (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk) {CVE-2017-5715} - Add set_ibrs_disabled and set_ibpb_disabled (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk) [Orabug: 27376697] {CVE-2017-5715} - x86/spec: Don last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 106468 published 2018-01-30 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/106468 title Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4022) (Meltdown) (Spectre) NASL family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2018-4110.NASL description The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update for the Unbreakable Enterprise kernel package(s). last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 109881 published 2018-05-17 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/109881 title Oracle Linux 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4110) (Meltdown) (Spectre) NASL family OracleVM Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLEVM_OVMSA-2017-0057.NASL description The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2017-0057 for details. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 99163 published 2017-04-03 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/99163 title OracleVM 3.3 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0057) (Dirty COW) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2015-2339-1.NASL description The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2015-7509: Mounting ext4 filesystems in no-journal mode could hav lead to a system crash (bsc#956709). - CVE-2015-7799: The slhc_init function in drivers/net/slip/slhc.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that certain slot numbers are valid, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a crafted PPPIOCSMAXCID ioctl call (bnc#949936). - CVE-2015-8104: The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS panic or hang) by triggering many #DB (aka Debug) exceptions, related to svm.c (bnc#954404). - CVE-2015-5307: The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS panic or hang) by triggering many #AC (aka Alignment Check) exceptions, related to svm.c and vmx.c (bnc#953527). - CVE-2015-7990: RDS: There was no verification that an underlying transport exists when creating a connection, causing usage of a NULL pointer (bsc#952384). - CVE-2015-5157: arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S in the Linux kernel on the x86_64 platform mishandled IRET faults in processing NMIs that occurred during userspace execution, which might have allowed local users to gain privileges by triggering an NMI (bnc#938706). - CVE-2015-7872: The key_gc_unused_keys function in security/keys/gc.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via crafted keyctl commands (bnc#951440). - CVE-2015-0272: Missing checks allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (IPv6 traffic disruption) via a crafted MTU value in an IPv6 Router Advertisement (RA) message, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8215 (bnc#944296). - CVE-2015-6937: The __rds_conn_create function in net/rds/connection.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by using a socket that was not properly bound (bnc#945825). 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. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 87651 published 2015-12-29 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/87651 title SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2015:2339-1) NASL family CentOS Local Security Checks NASL id CENTOS_RHSA-2016-0715.NASL description 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 Moderate. 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 flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled IRET faults during the processing of NMIs. An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially (although highly unlikely), escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2015-5157, Moderate) * A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 90868 published 2016-05-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/90868 title CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2016:0715) NASL family Scientific Linux Local Security Checks NASL id SL_20160216_KERNEL_ON_SL7_X.NASL description - It was found that the Linux kernel last seen 2020-03-18 modified 2016-02-17 plugin id 88799 published 2016-02-17 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/88799 title Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20160216) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2016-0224.NASL description Updated kernel-rt packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. The kernel-rt packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. * It was found that the Linux kernel last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 88792 published 2016-02-17 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/88792 title RHEL 6 : MRG (RHSA-2016:0224) NASL family CentOS Local Security Checks NASL id CENTOS_RHSA-2016-0185.NASL description Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. * It was found that the Linux kernel last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 88759 published 2016-02-17 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/88759 title CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2016:0185) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-1519.NASL description According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The IPv6 SCTP implementation in net/sctp/ipv6.c in the Linux kernel through 3.11.1 uses data structures and function calls that do not trigger an intended configuration of IPsec encryption, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network.(CVE-2013-4350i1/4%0 - The sg_ioctl function in drivers/scsi/sg.c in the Linux kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impacts via a large command size in an SG_NEXT_CMD_LEN ioctl call, leading to out-of-bounds write access in the sg_write function.(CVE-2017-7187i1/4%0 - An issue was discovered in can_can_gw_rcv in net/can/gw.c in the Linux kernel through 4.19.13. The CAN frame modification rules allow bitwise logical operations that can be also applied to the can_dlc field. Because of a missing check, the CAN drivers may write arbitrary content beyond the data registers in the CAN controller last seen 2020-03-19 modified 2019-05-14 plugin id 124972 published 2019-05-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/124972 title EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1519) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-2689-1.NASL description Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 85077 published 2015-07-29 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2015-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/85077 title Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : linux-lts-utopic vulnerabilities (USN-2689-1) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-2691-1.NASL description Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 85079 published 2015-07-29 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2015-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/85079 title Ubuntu 15.04 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2691-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2015-1727-1.NASL description The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to 3.12.48-52.27 to receive various security and bugfixes. Following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2015-7613: A flaw was found in the Linux kernel IPC code that could lead to arbitrary code execution. The ipc_addid() function initialized a shared object that has unset uid/gid values. Since the fields are not initialized, the check can falsely succeed. (bsc#948536) - CVE-2015-5156: When a guests KVM network devices is in a bridge configuration the kernel can create a situation in which packets are fragmented in an unexpected fashion. The GRO functionality can create a situation in which multiple SKB last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 86378 published 2015-10-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/86378 title SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel-source (SUSE-SU-2015:1727-1) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-2687-1.NASL description Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 85075 published 2015-07-29 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2015-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/85075 title Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2687-1) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2016-0715.NASL description 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 Moderate. 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 flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled IRET faults during the processing of NMIs. An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially (although highly unlikely), escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2015-5157, Moderate) * A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 90881 published 2016-05-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/90881 title RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2016:0715) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2015-2108-1.NASL description The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2015-8104: Prevent guest to host DoS caused by infinite loop in microcode via #DB exception (bsc#954404). - CVE-2015-5307: Prevent guest to host DoS caused by infinite loop in microcode via #AC exception (bsc#953527). - CVE-2015-7990: RDS: Verify the underlying transport exists before creating a connection, preventing possible DoS (bsc#952384). - CVE-2015-5157: arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S in the Linux kernel on the x86_64 platform mishandled IRET faults in processing NMIs that occurred during userspace execution, which might have allowed local users to gain privileges by triggering an NMI (bsc#938706). - CVE-2015-7872: Possible crash when trying to garbage collect an uninstantiated keyring (bsc#951440). - CVE-2015-0272: Prevent remote DoS using IPv6 RA with bogus MTU by validating before applying it (bsc#944296). - CVE-2015-6937: The __rds_conn_create function in net/rds/connection.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by using a socket that was not properly bound (bsc#945825). - CVE-2015-6252: The vhost_dev_ioctl function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a VHOST_SET_LOG_FD ioctl call that triggered permanent file-descriptor allocation (bsc#942367). 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. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 87104 published 2015-11-30 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/87104 title SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-2688-1.NASL description Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 85076 published 2015-07-29 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2015-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/85076 title Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2688-1) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-2690-1.NASL description Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 85078 published 2015-07-29 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2015-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/85078 title Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : linux-lts-vivid vulnerabilities (USN-2690-1)
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References
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.1.6
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9b6e6a8334d56354853f9c255d1395c2ba570e0a
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9b6e6a8334d56354853f9c255d1395c2ba570e0a
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/22/7
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0715.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76005
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0212.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0185.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0224.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00013.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00035.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00026.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00031.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00009.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2691-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2690-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2689-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2688-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2687-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3313