Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-18221 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Linux Kernel

047910
CVSS 5.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
linux
CWE-20
nessus
NVD
Published: 2018-03-07
Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

The __munlock_pagevec function in mm/mlock.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NR_MLOCK accounting corruption) via crafted use of mlockall and munlockall system calls.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Linux
3210

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
  • Cross Zone Scripting
    An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
  • Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
    An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
  • Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.

Nessus

  • NASL familyOracle Linux Local Security Checks
    NASL idORACLELINUX_ELSA-2019-4315.NASL
    descriptionDescription of changes: [4.1.12-124.24.1.el7uek] - pinctrl: amd: Use devm_pinctrl_register() for pinctrl registration (Laxman Dewangan) [Orabug: 27539246] {CVE-2017-18174} - mlock: fix mlock count can not decrease in race condition (Yisheng Xie) [Orabug: 27677611] {CVE-2017-18221} - perf/core: Fix the perf_cpu_time_max_percent check (Tan Xiaojun) [Orabug: 27823815] {CVE-2017-18255} - x86/microcode/intel: Fix a wrong assignment of revision in _save_mc (Zhenzhong Duan) [Orabug: 28190263] - mm: cma: fix incorrect type conversion for size during dma allocation (Rohit Vaswani) [Orabug: 28407826] {CVE-2017-9725} - x86/speculation: Make enhanced IBRS the default spectre v2 mitigation (Alejandro Jimenez) [Orabug: 28474851] - x86/speculation: Enable enhanced IBRS usage (Alejandro Jimenez) [Orabug: 28474851] - x86/speculation: functions for supporting enhanced IBRS (Alejandro Jimenez) [Orabug: 28474851] - xen/blkback: fix disconnect while I/Os in flight (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 28744234] - mlx4_vnic: use the mlid while calling ib_detach_mcast (aru kolappan) [Orabug: 29029705] - ext4: fail ext4_iget for root directory if unallocated (Theodore Ts
    last seen2020-03-18
    modified2019-01-07
    plugin id120976
    published2019-01-07
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/120976
    titleOracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2019-4315)
    code
    #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2019-4315.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(120976);
  script_version("1.7");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/02/26");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-18079", "CVE-2017-18174", "CVE-2017-18221", "CVE-2017-18255", "CVE-2017-9725", "CVE-2018-1092", "CVE-2018-7995", "CVE-2018-9363", "CVE-2018-9516");

  script_name(english:"Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2019-4315)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Description of changes:

[4.1.12-124.24.1.el7uek]
- pinctrl: amd: Use devm_pinctrl_register() for pinctrl registration 
(Laxman Dewangan)  [Orabug: 27539246]  {CVE-2017-18174}
- mlock: fix mlock count can not decrease in race condition (Yisheng 
Xie)  [Orabug: 27677611]  {CVE-2017-18221}
- perf/core: Fix the perf_cpu_time_max_percent check (Tan Xiaojun) 
[Orabug: 27823815]  {CVE-2017-18255}
- x86/microcode/intel: Fix a wrong assignment of revision in _save_mc 
(Zhenzhong Duan)  [Orabug: 28190263] - mm: cma: fix incorrect type 
conversion for size during dma allocation (Rohit Vaswani)  [Orabug: 
28407826]  {CVE-2017-9725}
- x86/speculation: Make enhanced IBRS the default spectre v2 mitigation 
(Alejandro Jimenez)  [Orabug: 28474851] - x86/speculation: Enable 
enhanced IBRS usage (Alejandro Jimenez)  [Orabug: 28474851] - 
x86/speculation: functions for supporting enhanced IBRS (Alejandro 
Jimenez)  [Orabug: 28474851] - xen/blkback: fix disconnect while I/Os in 
flight (Juergen Gross)  [Orabug: 28744234] - mlx4_vnic: use the mlid 
while calling ib_detach_mcast (aru kolappan)  [Orabug: 29029705] - ext4: 
fail ext4_iget for root directory if unallocated (Theodore Ts'o) 
[Orabug: 29048557]  {CVE-2018-1092} {CVE-2018-1092}
- Bluetooth: hidp: buffer overflow in hidp_process_report (Mark Salyzyn) 
  [Orabug: 29121215]  {CVE-2018-9363} {CVE-2018-9363}
- HID: debug: check length before copy_to_user() (Daniel Rosenberg) 
[Orabug: 29128165]  {CVE-2018-9516}
- x86/MCE: Serialize sysfs changes (Seunghun Han)  [Orabug: 29149888] 
{CVE-2018-7995}
- Input: i8042 - fix crash at boot time (Chen Hong)  [Orabug: 29152328] 
{CVE-2017-18079}"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2019-January/008354.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2019-January/008355.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected unbreakable enterprise kernel packages."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2017-9725");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-doc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-firmware");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/09/21");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/01/03");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/01/07");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Oracle Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl", "linux_alt_patch_detect.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/OracleLinux", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
include("ksplice.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/OracleLinux")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Oracle Linux");
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || !pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux)", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Oracle Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux) .*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Oracle Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(6|7)([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Oracle Linux 6 / 7", "Oracle Linux " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) 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, "Oracle Linux", cpu);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "x86_64", cpu);

if (get_one_kb_item("Host/ksplice/kernel-cves"))
{
  rm_kb_item(name:"Host/uptrack-uname-r");
  cve_list = make_list("CVE-2017-18079", "CVE-2017-18174", "CVE-2017-18221", "CVE-2017-18255", "CVE-2017-9725", "CVE-2018-1092", "CVE-2018-7995", "CVE-2018-9363", "CVE-2018-9516");  
  if (ksplice_cves_check(cve_list))
  {
    audit(AUDIT_PATCH_INSTALLED, "KSplice hotfix for ELSA-2019-4315");
  }
  else
  {
    __rpm_report = ksplice_reporting_text();
  }
}

kernel_major_minor = get_kb_item("Host/uname/major_minor");
if (empty_or_null(kernel_major_minor)) exit(1, "Unable to determine kernel major-minor level.");
expected_kernel_major_minor = "4.1";
if (kernel_major_minor != expected_kernel_major_minor)
  audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "running kernel level " + expected_kernel_major_minor + ", it is running kernel level " + kernel_major_minor);

flag = 0;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL6", rpm:"kernel-uek-4.1.12") && rpm_check(release:"EL6", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.24.1.el6uek")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL6", rpm:"kernel-uek-debug-4.1.12") && rpm_check(release:"EL6", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-uek-debug-4.1.12-124.24.1.el6uek")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL6", rpm:"kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.1.12") && rpm_check(release:"EL6", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.1.12-124.24.1.el6uek")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL6", rpm:"kernel-uek-devel-4.1.12") && rpm_check(release:"EL6", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-uek-devel-4.1.12-124.24.1.el6uek")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL6", rpm:"kernel-uek-doc-4.1.12") && rpm_check(release:"EL6", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-uek-doc-4.1.12-124.24.1.el6uek")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL6", rpm:"kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12") && rpm_check(release:"EL6", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-124.24.1.el6uek")) flag++;

if (rpm_exists(release:"EL7", rpm:"kernel-uek-4.1.12") && rpm_check(release:"EL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.24.1.el7uek")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL7", rpm:"kernel-uek-debug-4.1.12") && rpm_check(release:"EL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-uek-debug-4.1.12-124.24.1.el7uek")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL7", rpm:"kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.1.12") && rpm_check(release:"EL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.1.12-124.24.1.el7uek")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL7", rpm:"kernel-uek-devel-4.1.12") && rpm_check(release:"EL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-uek-devel-4.1.12-124.24.1.el7uek")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL7", rpm:"kernel-uek-doc-4.1.12") && rpm_check(release:"EL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-uek-doc-4.1.12-124.24.1.el7uek")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL7", rpm:"kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12") && rpm_check(release:"EL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-124.24.1.el7uek")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "affected kernel");
}
  • NASL familyHuawei Local Security Checks
    NASL idEULEROS_SA-2019-1520.NASL
    descriptionAccording 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 : - 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-2015-4036i1/4%0 - The llc_cmsg_rcv function in net/llc/af_llc.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.5 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading a message.(CVE-2016-4485i1/4%0 - The nr_recvmsg function in net/netrom/af_netrom.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12.4 updates a certain length value without ensuring that an associated data structure has been initialized, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a (1) recvfrom, (2) recvmmsg, or (3) recvmsg system call.(CVE-2013-7269i1/4%0 - The mct_u232_msr_to_state function in drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.1 allows 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.(CVE-2016-3136i1/4%0 - An out-of-bounds memory access flaw, CVE-2014-7825, was found in the syscall tracing functionality of the Linux kernel
    last seen2020-03-19
    modified2019-05-14
    plugin id124973
    published2019-05-14
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/124973
    titleEulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1520)
    code
    #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(124973);
  script_version("1.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/19");

  script_cve_id(
    "CVE-2013-7269",
    "CVE-2014-2309",
    "CVE-2014-3647",
    "CVE-2014-7826",
    "CVE-2015-2922",
    "CVE-2015-4036",
    "CVE-2015-7550",
    "CVE-2016-3136",
    "CVE-2016-4482",
    "CVE-2016-4485",
    "CVE-2016-8630",
    "CVE-2016-8646",
    "CVE-2017-18221",
    "CVE-2017-18261",
    "CVE-2017-7294",
    "CVE-2018-10881",
    "CVE-2018-1120",
    "CVE-2018-13099",
    "CVE-2018-14612",
    "CVE-2018-20784"
  );
  script_bugtraq_id(
    64742,
    66095,
    70748,
    70971,
    74315,
    74664
  );

  script_name(english:"EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1520)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 host is missing multiple security
updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"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 :

  - 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-2015-4036i1/4%0

  - The llc_cmsg_rcv function in net/llc/af_llc.c in the
    Linux kernel before 4.5.5 does not initialize a certain
    data structure, which allows attackers to obtain
    sensitive information from kernel stack memory by
    reading a message.(CVE-2016-4485i1/4%0

  - The nr_recvmsg function in net/netrom/af_netrom.c in
    the Linux kernel before 3.12.4 updates a certain length
    value without ensuring that an associated data
    structure has been initialized, which allows local
    users to obtain sensitive information from kernel
    memory via a (1) recvfrom, (2) recvmmsg, or (3) recvmsg
    system call.(CVE-2013-7269i1/4%0

  - The mct_u232_msr_to_state function in
    drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c in the Linux kernel
    before 4.5.1 allows 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.(CVE-2016-3136i1/4%0

  - An out-of-bounds memory access flaw, CVE-2014-7825, was
    found in the syscall tracing functionality of the Linux
    kernel's perf subsystem. A local, unprivileged user
    could use this flaw to crash the system. Additionally,
    an out-of-bounds memory access flaw, CVE-2014-7826, was
    found in the syscall tracing functionality of the Linux
    kernel's ftrace subsystem. On a system with ftrace
    syscall tracing enabled, a local, unprivileged user
    could use this flaw to crash the system, or escalate
    their privileges.(CVE-2014-7826i1/4%0

  - Linux kernel built with the Kernel-based Virtual
    Machine (CONFIG_KVM) support is vulnerable to a null
    pointer dereference flaw. It could occur on x86
    platform, when emulating an undefined instruction. An
    attacker could use this flaw to crash the host kernel
    resulting in DoS.(CVE-2016-8630i1/4%0

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem.
    A local user can cause an out-of-bound access in
    ext4_get_group_info function, a denial of service, and
    a system crash by mounting and operating on a crafted
    ext4 filesystem image.(CVE-2018-10881i1/4%0

  - The arch_timer_reg_read_stable macro in
    arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h in the Linux kernel
    before 4.13 allows local users to cause a denial of
    service (infinite recursion) by writing to a file under
    /sys/kernel/debug in certain circumstances, as
    demonstrated by a scenario involving debugfs, ftrace,
    PREEMPT_TRACER, and
    FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER.(CVE-2017-18261i1/4%0

  - The ip6_route_add function in net/ipv6/route.c in the
    Linux kernel through 3.13.6 does not properly count the
    addition of routes, which allows remote attackers to
    cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a
    flood of ICMPv6 Router Advertisement
    packets.(CVE-2014-2309i1/4%0

  - In the Linux kernel before 4.20.2, kernel/sched/fair.c
    mishandles leaf cfs_rq's, which allows attackers to
    cause a denial of service (infinite loop in
    update_blocked_averages) or possibly have unspecified
    other impact by inducing a high load.(CVE-2018-20784i1/4%0

  - An issue was discovered in the F2FS filesystem code in
    fs/f2fs/inline.c in the Linux kernel. A denial of
    service due to the out-of-bounds memory access can
    occur for a modified f2fs filesystem
    image.(CVE-2018-13099i1/4%0

  - An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in the
    Linux kernel's vmw_surface_define_ioctl() function, in
    the 'drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c' file. Due
    to the nature of the flaw, privilege escalation cannot
    be fully ruled out, although we believe it is
    unlikely.(CVE-2017-7294i1/4%0

  - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM
    subsystem handled non-canonical addresses when
    emulating instructions that change the RIP (for
    example, branches or calls). A guest user with access
    to an I/O or MMIO region could use this flaw to crash
    the guest.(CVE-2014-3647i1/4%0

  - The __munlock_pagevec function in mm/mlock.c in the
    Linux kernel, before 4.11.4, allows local users to
    cause a denial of service (NR_MLOCK accounting
    corruption) via crafted use of mlockall and munlockall
    system calls.(CVE-2017-18221i1/4%0

  - ** RESERVED ** This candidate has been reserved by an
    organization or individual that will use it when
    announcing a new security problem. When the candidate
    has been publicized, the details for this candidate
    will be provided.(CVE-2018-1120i1/4%0

  - The proc_connectinfo() function in
    'drivers/usb/core/devio.c' in the Linux kernel through
    4.6 does not initialize a certain data structure, which
    allows local users to obtain sensitive information from
    kernel stack memory via a crafted USBDEVFS_CONNECTINFO
    ioctl call. The stack object 'ci' has a total size of 8
    bytes. Its last 3 bytes are padding bytes which are not
    initialized and are leaked to
    userland.(CVE-2016-4482i1/4%0

  - A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel. An
    unprivileged local user could trigger oops in
    shash_async_export() by attempting to force the
    in-kernel hashing algorithms into decrypting an empty
    data set.(CVE-2016-8646i1/4%0

  - An issue was discovered in the btrfs filesystem code in
    the Linux kernel. An invalid NULL pointer dereference
    in btrfs_root_node() when mounting a crafted btrfs
    image is due to a lack of chunk block group mapping
    validation in btrfs_read_block_groups() in the
    fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c function and a lack of
    empty-tree checks in check_leaf() in
    fs/btrfs/tree-checker.c function. This could lead to a
    system crash and a denial of service.(CVE-2018-14612i1/4%0

  - It was found that the Linux kernel's TCP/IP protocol
    suite implementation for IPv6 allowed the Hop Limit
    value to be set to a smaller value than the default
    one. An attacker on a local network could use this flaw
    to prevent systems on that network from sending or
    receiving network packets.(CVE-2015-2922i1/4%0

  - A NULL-pointer dereference flaw was found in the
    kernel, which is caused by a race between revoking a
    user-type key and reading from it. The issue could be
    triggered by an unprivileged user with a local account,
    causing the kernel to crash (denial of
    service).(CVE-2015-7550i1/4%0

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.");
  # https://developer.huaweicloud.com/ict/en/site-euleros/euleros/security-advisories/EulerOS-SA-2019-1520
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?f904a7a8");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected kernel packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_core", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/05/09");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/05/14");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:kernel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:kernel-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:kernel-headers");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:kernel-tools");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:kernel-tools-libs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:kernel-tools-libs-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:perf");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:python-perf");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:3.0.1.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Huawei Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/EulerOS/release", "Host/EulerOS/rpm-list", "Host/EulerOS/uvp_version");

  exit(0);
}

include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);

release = get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/release");
if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^EulerOS") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS");
uvp = get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/uvp_version");
if (uvp != "3.0.1.0") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.1.0");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/rpm-list")) 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$" && "aarch64" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "EulerOS", cpu);
if ("aarch64" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "aarch64", cpu);

flag = 0;

pkgs = ["kernel-4.19.28-1.2.117",
        "kernel-devel-4.19.28-1.2.117",
        "kernel-headers-4.19.28-1.2.117",
        "kernel-tools-4.19.28-1.2.117",
        "kernel-tools-libs-4.19.28-1.2.117",
        "kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.19.28-1.2.117",
        "perf-4.19.28-1.2.117",
        "python-perf-4.19.28-1.2.117"];

foreach (pkg in pkgs)
  if (rpm_check(release:"EulerOS-2.0", reference:pkg)) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
    extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "kernel");
}
  • NASL familyOracleVM Local Security Checks
    NASL idORACLEVM_OVMSA-2019-0002.NASL
    descriptionThe remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - rds: congestion updates can be missed when kernel low on memory (Mukesh Kacker) [Orabug: 28425811] - net/rds: ib: Fix endless RNR Retries caused by memory allocation failures (Venkat Venkatsubra) [Orabug: 28127993] - net: rds: fix excess initialization of the recv SGEs (Zhu Yanjun) [Orabug: 29004503] - xhci: fix usb2 resume timing and races. (Mathias Nyman) [Orabug: 29028940] - xhci: Fix a race in usb2 LPM resume, blocking U3 for usb2 devices (Mathias Nyman) [Orabug: 29028940] - userfaultfd: check VM_MAYWRITE was set after verifying the uffd is registered (Andrea Arcangeli) [Orabug: 29163750] (CVE-2018-18397) - userfaultfd: shmem/hugetlbfs: only allow to register VM_MAYWRITE vmas (Andrea Arcangeli) [Orabug: 29163750] (CVE-2018-18397) - x86/apic/x2apic: set affinity of a single interrupt to one cpu (Jianchao Wang) [Orabug: 29196396] - xen/blkback: rework validate_io_op (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 29199843] - xen/blkback: optimize validate_io_op to filter BLKIF_OP_RESERVED_1 operation (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 29199843] - xen/blkback: do not BUG for invalid blkif_request from frontend (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 29199843] - net/rds: WARNING: at net/rds/recv.c:222 rds_recv_hs_exthdrs+0xf8/0x1e0 (Venkat Venkatsubra) [Orabug: 29201779] - xen-netback: wake up xenvif_dealloc_kthread when it should stop (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 29217927] - Revert
    last seen2020-03-18
    modified2019-02-06
    plugin id121605
    published2019-02-06
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/121605
    titleOracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2019-0002)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_SU-2018-0834-1.NASL
    descriptionThe SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-1068: Fixed flaw in the implementation of 32-bit syscall interface for bridging. This allowed a privileged user to arbitrarily write to a limited range of kernel memory (bnc#1085107). - CVE-2017-18221: The __munlock_pagevec function allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NR_MLOCK accounting corruption) via crafted use of mlockall and munlockall system calls (bnc#1084323). - CVE-2018-1066: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c:setup_ntlmv2_rsp() that allowed an attacker controlling a CIFS server to kernel panic a client that has this server mounted, because an empty TargetInfo field in an NTLMSSP setup negotiation response was mishandled during session recovery (bnc#1083640). - CVE-2017-13166: Prevent elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel v4l2 video driver (bnc#1072865). - CVE-2017-16911: The vhci_hcd driver allowed local attackers to disclose kernel memory addresses. Successful exploitation required that a USB device was attached over IP (bnc#1078674). - CVE-2017-15299: The KEYS subsystem mishandled use of add_key for a key that already exists but is uninstantiated, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted system call (bnc#1063416). - CVE-2017-18208: The madvise_willneed function kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by triggering use of MADVISE_WILLNEED for a DAX mapping (bnc#1083494). - CVE-2018-7566: The ALSA sequencer core initializes the event pool on demand by invoking snd_seq_pool_init() when the first write happens and the pool is empty. A user could have reset the pool size manually via ioctl concurrently, which may have lead UAF or out-of-bound access (bsc#1083483). - CVE-2017-18204: The ocfs2_setattr function allowed local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via DIO requests (bnc#1083244). - CVE-2017-16644: The hdpvr_probe function allowed local users to cause a denial of service (improper error handling and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device (bnc#1067118). - CVE-2018-6927: The futex_requeue function allowed attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a negative wake or requeue value (bnc#1080757). - CVE-2017-16914: The
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id108705
    published2018-03-29
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/108705
    titleSUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0834-1)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_SU-2018-0848-1.NASL
    descriptionThe SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-1068: Fixed flaw in the implementation of 32-bit syscall interface for bridging. This allowed a privileged user to arbitrarily write to a limited range of kernel memory (bnc#1085107). - CVE-2017-18221: The __munlock_pagevec function allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NR_MLOCK accounting corruption) via crafted use of mlockall and munlockall system calls (bnc#1084323). - CVE-2018-1066: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c:setup_ntlmv2_rsp() that allowed an attacker controlling a CIFS server to kernel panic a client that has this server mounted, because an empty TargetInfo field in an NTLMSSP setup negotiation response was mishandled during session recovery (bnc#1083640). - CVE-2017-13166: Prevent elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel v4l2 video driver (bnc#1072865). - CVE-2017-16911: The vhci_hcd driver allowed local attackers to disclose kernel memory addresses. Successful exploitation required that a USB device was attached over IP (bnc#1078674). - CVE-2017-15299: The KEYS subsystem mishandled use of add_key for a key that already exists but is uninstantiated, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted system call (bnc#1063416). - CVE-2017-18208: The madvise_willneed function kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by triggering use of MADVISE_WILLNEED for a DAX mapping (bnc#1083494). - CVE-2018-7566: The ALSA sequencer core initializes the event pool on demand by invoking snd_seq_pool_init() when the first write happens and the pool is empty. A user could have reset the pool size manually via ioctl concurrently, which may have lead UAF or out-of-bound access (bsc#1083483). - CVE-2017-18204: The ocfs2_setattr function allowed local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via DIO requests (bnc#1083244). - CVE-2017-16644: The hdpvr_probe function allowed local users to cause a denial of service (improper error handling and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device (bnc#1067118). - CVE-2018-6927: The futex_requeue function allowed attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a negative wake or requeue value (bnc#1080757). - CVE-2017-16914: The
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id108748
    published2018-03-30
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/108748
    titleSUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0848-1)
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-3655-1.NASL
    descriptionJann Horn and Ken Johnson discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution of a memory read may allow unauthorized memory reads via a sidechannel attack. This flaw is known as Spectre Variant 4. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information, including kernel memory. (CVE-2018-3639) Jan H. Schonherr discovered that the Xen subsystem did not properly handle block IO merges correctly in some situations. An attacker in a guest vm could use this to cause a denial of service (host crash) or possibly gain administrative privileges in the host. (CVE-2017-12134) It was discovered that the Bluetooth HIP Protocol implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate HID connection setup information. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-13220) It was discovered that a buffer overread vulnerability existed in the keyring subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2017-13305) It was discovered that the netlink subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict observations of netlink messages to the appropriate net namespace. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (kernel netlink traffic). (CVE-2017-17449) It was discovered that a race condition existed in the i8042 serial device driver implementation in the Linux kernel. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-18079) It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Device Mapper component of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2017-18203) It was discovered that a race condition existed in the OCFS2 file system implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (kernel deadlock). (CVE-2017-18204) It was discovered that an infinite loop could occur in the madvise(2) implementation in the Linux kernel in certain circumstances. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system hang). (CVE-2017-18208) Kefeng Wang discovered that a race condition existed in the memory locking implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-18221) Silvio Cesare discovered a buffer overwrite existed in the NCPFS implementation in the Linux kernel. A remote attacker controlling a malicious NCPFS server could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-8822). 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.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id110050
    published2018-05-23
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/110050
    titleUbuntu 14.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-3655-1) (Spectre)

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