Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-1092 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
The ext4_iget function in fs/ext4/inode.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.15 mishandles the case of a root directory with a zero i_links_count, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (ext4_process_freed_data NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) via a crafted ext4 image.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2018-2_0-0041_CEPH.NASL description An update of the ceph package has been released. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2019-02-07 plugin id 121941 published 2019-02-07 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/121941 title Photon OS 2.0: Ceph PHSA-2018-2.0-0041 NASL family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2019-4315.NASL description 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 last seen 2020-03-18 modified 2019-01-07 plugin id 120976 published 2019-01-07 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/120976 title Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2019-4315) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-3676-1.NASL description Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle corrupted meta data in some situations. An attacker could use this to specially craft an ext4 file system that caused a denial of service (system crash) when mounted. (CVE-2018-1092, CVE-2018-1093) It was discovered that the cdrom driver in the Linux kernel contained an incorrect bounds check. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2018-10940) It was discovered that the 802.11 software simulator implementation in the Linux kernel contained a memory leak when handling certain error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2018-8087). 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 seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 110476 published 2018-06-12 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/110476 title Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities (USN-3676-1) NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2018-1_0-0132.NASL description An update of 'linux-esx', 'rsync', 'linux' packages of Photon OS has been released. last seen 2019-02-21 modified 2019-02-07 plugin id 111934 published 2018-08-17 reporter Tenable source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=111934 title Photon OS 1.0: Linux / Rsync PHSA-2018-1.0-0132 (deprecated) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2018-1761-1.NASL description The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-3665: Prevent disclosure of FPU registers (including XMM and AVX registers) between processes. These registers might contain encryption keys when doing SSE accelerated AES enc/decryption (bsc#1087086) - CVE-2018-5848: In the function wmi_set_ie(), the length validation code did not handle unsigned integer overflow properly. As a result, a large value of the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 110636 published 2018-06-21 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/110636 title SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1761-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2018-1762-1.NASL description The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 GA LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-3665: Prevent disclosure of FPU registers (including XMM and AVX registers) between processes. These registers might contain encryption keys when doing SSE accelerated AES enc/decryption (bsc#1087086) - CVE-2018-5848: In the function wmi_set_ie(), the length validation code did not handle unsigned integer overflow properly. As a result, a large value of the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 110637 published 2018-06-21 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/110637 title SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1762-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2018-1855-1.NASL description The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 LTSS kernel was updated receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-5848: In the function wmi_set_ie(), the length validation code did not handle unsigned integer overflow properly. As a result, a large value of the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 110838 published 2018-07-02 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/110838 title SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1855-1) NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2018-2_0-0041_LINUX.NASL description An update of the linux package has been released. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2019-02-07 plugin id 121942 published 2019-02-07 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/121942 title Photon OS 2.0: Linux PHSA-2018-2.0-0041 NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-3678-1.NASL description Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle corrupted meta data in some situations. An attacker could use this to specially craft an ext4 file system that caused a denial of service (system crash) when mounted. (CVE-2018-1092) It was discovered that the 802.11 software simulator implementation in the Linux kernel contained a memory leak when handling certain error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2018-8087) It was discovered that a memory leak existed in the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) implementation in the Linux kernel. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2018-10021). 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 seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 110480 published 2018-06-12 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/110480 title Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-kvm vulnerabilities (USN-3678-1) NASL family Scientific Linux Local Security Checks NASL id SL_20181030_KERNEL_ON_SL7_X.NASL description Security Fix(es) : - A flaw named FragmentSmack was found in the way the Linux kernel handled reassembly of fragmented IPv4 and IPv6 packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to trigger time and calculation expensive fragment reassembly algorithm by sending specially crafted packets which could lead to a CPU saturation and hence a denial of service on the system. (CVE-2018-5391) - kernel: out-of-bounds access in the show_timer function in kernel/time /posix-timers.c (CVE-2017-18344) - kernel: Integer overflow in udl_fb_mmap() can allow attackers to execute code in kernel space (CVE-2018-8781) - kernel: MIDI driver race condition leads to a double-free (CVE-2018-10902) - kernel: Missing check in inode_init_owner() does not clear SGID bit on non-directories for non-members (CVE-2018-13405) - kernel: AIO write triggers integer overflow in some protocols (CVE-2015-8830) - kernel: Use-after-free in snd_pcm_info function in ALSA subsystem potentially leads to privilege escalation (CVE-2017-0861) - kernel: Handling of might_cancel queueing is not properly pretected against race (CVE-2017-10661) - kernel: Salsa20 encryption algorithm does not correctly handle zero- length inputs allowing local attackers to cause denial of service (CVE-2017-17805) - kernel: Inifinite loop vulnerability in madvise_willneed() function allows local denial of service (CVE-2017-18208) - kernel: fuse-backed file mmap-ed onto process cmdline arguments causes denial of service (CVE-2018-1120) - kernel: a NULL pointer dereference in dccp_write_xmit() leads to a system crash (CVE-2018-1130) - kernel: drivers/block/loop.c mishandles lo_release serialization allowing denial of service (CVE-2018-5344) - kernel: Missing length check of payload in _sctp_make_chunk() function allows denial of service (CVE-2018-5803) - kernel: buffer overflow in drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/wmi.c:wmi_set_ie() may lead to memory corruption (CVE-2018-5848) - kernel: out-of-bound write in ext4_init_block_bitmap function with a crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-10878) - kernel: Improper validation in bnx2x network card driver can allow for denial of service attacks via crafted packet (CVE-2018-1000026) - kernel: Information leak when handling NM entries containing NUL (CVE-2016-4913) - kernel: Mishandling mutex within libsas allowing local Denial of Service (CVE-2017-18232) - kernel: NULL pointer dereference in ext4_process_freed_data() when mounting crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-1092) - kernel: NULL pointer dereference in ext4_xattr_inode_hash() causes crash with crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-1094) - kernel: vhost: Information disclosure in vhost/vhost.c:vhost_new_msg() (CVE-2018-1118) - kernel: Denial of service in resv_map_release function in mm/hugetlb.c (CVE-2018-7740) - kernel: Memory leak in the sas_smp_get_phy_events function in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c (CVE-2018-7757) - kernel: Invalid pointer dereference in xfs_ilock_attr_map_shared() when mounting crafted xfs image allowing denial of service (CVE-2018-10322) - kernel: use-after-free detected in ext4_xattr_set_entry with a crafted file (CVE-2018-10879) - kernel: out-of-bound access in ext4_get_group_info() when mounting and operating a crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-10881) - kernel: stack-out-of-bounds write in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata function (CVE-2018-10883) - kernel: incorrect memory bounds check in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c (CVE-2018-10940) last seen 2020-03-18 modified 2018-11-27 plugin id 119187 published 2018-11-27 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/119187 title Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20181030) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2018-3083.NASL description An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fix(es) : * A flaw named FragmentSmack was found in the way the Linux kernel handled reassembly of fragmented IPv4 and IPv6 packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to trigger time and calculation expensive fragment reassembly algorithm by sending specially crafted packets which could lead to a CPU saturation and hence a denial of service on the system. (CVE-2018-5391) * kernel: out-of-bounds access in the show_timer function in kernel/time/ posix-timers.c (CVE-2017-18344) * kernel: Integer overflow in udl_fb_mmap() can allow attackers to execute code in kernel space (CVE-2018-8781) * kernel: MIDI driver race condition leads to a double-free (CVE-2018-10902) * kernel: Missing check in inode_init_owner() does not clear SGID bit on non-directories for non-members (CVE-2018-13405) * kernel: AIO write triggers integer overflow in some protocols (CVE-2015-8830) * kernel: Use-after-free in snd_pcm_info function in ALSA subsystem potentially leads to privilege escalation (CVE-2017-0861) * kernel: Handling of might_cancel queueing is not properly pretected against race (CVE-2017-10661) * kernel: Salsa20 encryption algorithm does not correctly handle zero-length inputs allowing local attackers to cause denial of service (CVE-2017-17805) * kernel: Inifinite loop vulnerability in madvise_willneed() function allows local denial of service (CVE-2017-18208) * kernel: fuse-backed file mmap-ed onto process cmdline arguments causes denial of service (CVE-2018-1120) * kernel: a NULL pointer dereference in dccp_write_xmit() leads to a system crash (CVE-2018-1130) * kernel: drivers/block/loop.c mishandles lo_release serialization allowing denial of service (CVE-2018-5344) * kernel: Missing length check of payload in _sctp_make_chunk() function allows denial of service (CVE-2018-5803) * kernel: buffer overflow in drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/ wmi.c:wmi_set_ie() may lead to memory corruption (CVE-2018-5848) * kernel: out-of-bound write in ext4_init_block_bitmap function with a crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-10878) * kernel: Improper validation in bnx2x network card driver can allow for denial of service attacks via crafted packet (CVE-2018-1000026) * kernel: Information leak when handling NM entries containing NUL (CVE-2016-4913) * kernel: Mishandling mutex within libsas allowing local Denial of Service (CVE-2017-18232) * kernel: NULL pointer dereference in ext4_process_freed_data() when mounting crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-1092) * kernel: NULL pointer dereference in ext4_xattr_inode_hash() causes crash with crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-1094) * kernel: vhost: Information disclosure in vhost/vhost.c:vhost_new_msg() (CVE-2018-1118) * kernel: Denial of service in resv_map_release function in mm/hugetlb.c (CVE-2018-7740) * kernel: Memory leak in the sas_smp_get_phy_events function in drivers/scsi/ libsas/sas_expander.c (CVE-2018-7757) * kernel: Invalid pointer dereference in xfs_ilock_attr_map_shared() when mounting crafted xfs image allowing denial of service (CVE-2018-10322) * kernel: use-after-free detected in ext4_xattr_set_entry with a crafted file (CVE-2018-10879) * kernel: out-of-bound access in ext4_get_group_info() when mounting and operating a crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-10881) * kernel: stack-out-of-bounds write in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata function (CVE-2018-10883) * kernel: incorrect memory bounds check in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c (CVE-2018-10940) Red Hat would like to thank Juha-Matti Tilli (Aalto University - Department of Communications and Networking and Nokia Bell Labs) for reporting CVE-2018-5391; Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative for reporting CVE-2018-10902; Qualys Research Labs for reporting CVE-2018-1120; Evgenii Shatokhin (Virtuozzo Team) for reporting CVE-2018-1130; and Wen Xu for reporting CVE-2018-1092 and CVE-2018-1094. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 118525 published 2018-10-31 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/118525 title RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2018:3083) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-1369.NASL description Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. CVE-2017-0861 Robb Glasser reported a potential use-after-free in the ALSA (sound) PCM core. We believe this was not possible in practice. CVE-2017-5715 Multiple researchers have discovered a vulnerability in various processors supporting speculative execution, enabling an attacker controlling an unprivileged process to read memory from arbitrary addresses, including from the kernel and all other processes running on the system. This specific attack has been named Spectre variant 2 (branch target injection) and is mitigated for the x86 architecture (amd64 and i386) by using the last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2018-05-03 plugin id 109531 published 2018-05-03 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/109531 title Debian DLA-1369-1 : linux security update (Spectre) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-3754-1.NASL description Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the ext4 implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate meta block groups. An attacker with physical access could use this to specially craft an ext4 image that causes a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2016-10208) It was discovered that an information disclosure vulnerability existed in the ACPI implementation of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (kernel memory addresses). (CVE-2017-11472) It was discovered that a buffer overflow existed in the ACPI table parsing implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to construct a malicious ACPI table that, when loaded, caused a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-11473) It was discovered that the generic SCSI driver in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize data returned to user space in some situations. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2017-14991) It was discovered that a race condition existed in the packet fanout implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-15649) Andrey Konovalov discovered that the Ultra Wide Band driver in the Linux kernel did not properly check for an error condition. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-16526) Andrey Konovalov discovered that the ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel contained a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-16527) Andrey Konovalov discovered that the ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate USB audio buffer descriptors. A physically proximate attacker could use this cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-16529) Andrey Konovalov discovered that the USB subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate USB interface association descriptors. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2017-16531) Andrey Konovalov discovered that the usbtest device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate endpoint metadata. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2017-16532) Andrey Konovalov discovered that the USB subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate USB HID descriptors. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2017-16533) Andrey Konovalov discovered that the USB subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate USB BOS metadata. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2017-16535) Andrey Konovalov discovered that the Conexant cx231xx USB video capture driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate interface descriptors. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2017-16536) Andrey Konovalov discovered that the SoundGraph iMON USB driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate device metadata. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2017-16537) It was discovered that the DM04/QQBOX USB driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle device attachment and warm-start. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-16538) Andrey Konovalov discovered an out-of-bounds read in the GTCO digitizer USB driver for the Linux kernel. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-16643) Andrey Konovalov discovered that the video4linux driver for Hauppauge HD PVR USB devices in the Linux kernel did not properly handle some error conditions. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-16644) Andrey Konovalov discovered that the IMS Passenger Control Unit USB driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate device descriptors. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2017-16645) Andrey Konovalov discovered that the QMI WWAN USB driver did not properly validate device descriptors. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2017-16650) It was discovered that the USB Virtual Host Controller Interface (VHCI) driver in the Linux kernel contained an information disclosure vulnerability. A physically proximate attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2017-16911) It was discovered that the USB over IP implementation in the Linux kernel did not validate endpoint numbers. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2017-16912) It was discovered that the USB over IP implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate CMD_SUBMIT packets. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (excessive memory consumption). (CVE-2017-16913) It was discovered that the USB over IP implementation in the Linux kernel contained a NULL pointer dereference error. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2017-16914) It was discovered that the core USB subsystem in the Linux kernel did not validate the number of configurations and interfaces in a device. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2017-17558) It was discovered that an integer overflow existed in the perf subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2017-18255) It was discovered that the keyring subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly prevent a user from creating keyrings for other users. A local attacker could use this cause a denial of service or expose sensitive information. (CVE-2017-18270) Andy Lutomirski and Willy Tarreau discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly emulate instructions on the SS segment register. A local attacker in a guest virtual machine could use this to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) or possibly gain administrative privileges in the guest OS. (CVE-2017-2583) Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel improperly emulated certain instructions. A local attacker could use this to obtain sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2017-2584) It was discovered that the KLSI KL5KUSB105 serial-to-USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize memory related to logging. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2017-5549) Andrey Konovalov discovered an out-of-bounds access in the IPv6 Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunneling implementation in the Linux kernel. An attacker could use this to possibly expose sensitive information. (CVE-2017-5897) Andrey Konovalov discovered that the LLC subsytem in the Linux kernel did not properly set up a destructor in certain situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2017-6345) Dmitry Vyukov discovered race conditions in the Infrared (IrDA) subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (deadlock). (CVE-2017-6348) Andy Lutomirski discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel was vulnerable to a debug exception error when single-stepping through a syscall. A local attacker in a non-Linux guest vm could possibly use this to gain administrative privileges in the guest vm. (CVE-2017-7518) Tuomas Haanpaa and Ari Kauppi discovered that the NFSv2 and NFSv3 server implementations in the Linux kernel did not properly handle certain long RPC replies. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2017-7645) Pengfei Wang discovered that a race condition existed in the NXP SAA7164 TV Decoder driver for the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-8831) Pengfei Wang discovered that the Turtle Beach MultiSound audio device driver in the Linux kernel contained race conditions when fetching from the ring-buffer. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (infinite loop). (CVE-2017-9984, CVE-2017-9985) It was discovered that the wait4() system call in the Linux kernel did not properly validate its arguments in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-10087) It was discovered that the kill() system call implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate its arguments in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-10124) Wen Xu discovered that the XFS filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate meta-data information. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious xfs image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2018-10323) Zhong Jiang discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the NUMA memory policy implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-10675) Wen Xu discovered that a buffer overflow existed in the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-10877) Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly keep meta-data information consistent in some situations. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious ext4 image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2018-10881) Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle corrupted meta data in some situations. An attacker could use this to specially craft an ext4 file system that caused a denial of service (system crash) when mounted. (CVE-2018-1092) Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle corrupted meta data in some situations. An attacker could use this to specially craft an ext4 filesystem that caused a denial of service (system crash) when mounted. (CVE-2018-1093) It was discovered that the cdrom driver in the Linux kernel contained an incorrect bounds check. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2018-10940) Shankara Pailoor discovered that the JFS filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel contained a buffer overflow when handling extended attributes. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-12233) Wen Xu discovered that the XFS filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle an error condition with a corrupted xfs image. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious xfs image that, when mounted, could cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2018-13094) It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly handle setgid file creation when performed by a non-member of the group. A local attacker could use this to gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2018-13405) Silvio Cesare discovered that the generic VESA frame buffer driver in the Linux kernel contained an integer overflow. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-13406) Daniel Jiang discovered that a race condition existed in the ipv4 ping socket implementation in the Linux kernel. A local privileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2017-2671) It was discovered that an information leak existed in the generic SCSI driver in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2018-1000204) It was discovered that a memory leak existed in the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) implementation in the Linux kernel. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2018-10021). 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 seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 112113 published 2018-08-24 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/112113 title Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-3754-1) NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2018-1_0-0132_LINUX.NASL description An update of the linux package has been released. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2019-02-07 plugin id 121837 published 2019-02-07 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/121837 title Photon OS 1.0: Linux PHSA-2018-1.0-0132 NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-1476.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 : - A use-after-free vulnerability was found in DCCP socket code affecting the Linux kernel since 2.6.16. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to their escalate privileges.(CVE-2017-8824i1/4%0 - The OZWPAN driver in the Linux kernel through 4.0.5 relies on an untrusted length field during packet parsing, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and system crash) via a crafted packet.(CVE-2015-4004i1/4%0 - Integer signedness error in the MSM V4L2 video driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (array overflow and memory corruption) via a crafted application that triggers an msm_isp_axi_create_stream call.(CVE-2016-2061i1/4%0 - A denial of service flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel last seen 2020-03-19 modified 2019-05-13 plugin id 124800 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/124800 title EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1476) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-3677-2.NASL description USN-3677-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement (HWE) kernel from Ubuntu 17.10 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. It was discovered that the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel did not properly validate ebtables offsets. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-1068) Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle corrupted meta data in some situations. An attacker could use this to specially craft an ext4 file system that caused a denial of service (system crash) when mounted. (CVE-2018-1092) It was discovered that a NULL pointer dereference existed in the RDS (Reliable Datagram Sockets) protocol implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2018-7492) It was discovered that the 802.11 software simulator implementation in the Linux kernel contained a memory leak when handling certain error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2018-8087) Eyal Itkin discovered that the USB displaylink video adapter driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate mmap offsets sent from userspace. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (kernel memory) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-8781). 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 seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 110479 published 2018-06-12 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/110479 title Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : linux-hwe, linux-gcp, linux-oem vulnerabilities (USN-3677-2) NASL family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2018-3083.NASL description From Red Hat Security Advisory 2018:3083 : An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fix(es) : * A flaw named FragmentSmack was found in the way the Linux kernel handled reassembly of fragmented IPv4 and IPv6 packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to trigger time and calculation expensive fragment reassembly algorithm by sending specially crafted packets which could lead to a CPU saturation and hence a denial of service on the system. (CVE-2018-5391) * kernel: out-of-bounds access in the show_timer function in kernel/time/ posix-timers.c (CVE-2017-18344) * kernel: Integer overflow in udl_fb_mmap() can allow attackers to execute code in kernel space (CVE-2018-8781) * kernel: MIDI driver race condition leads to a double-free (CVE-2018-10902) * kernel: Missing check in inode_init_owner() does not clear SGID bit on non-directories for non-members (CVE-2018-13405) * kernel: AIO write triggers integer overflow in some protocols (CVE-2015-8830) * kernel: Use-after-free in snd_pcm_info function in ALSA subsystem potentially leads to privilege escalation (CVE-2017-0861) * kernel: Handling of might_cancel queueing is not properly pretected against race (CVE-2017-10661) * kernel: Salsa20 encryption algorithm does not correctly handle zero-length inputs allowing local attackers to cause denial of service (CVE-2017-17805) * kernel: Inifinite loop vulnerability in madvise_willneed() function allows local denial of service (CVE-2017-18208) * kernel: fuse-backed file mmap-ed onto process cmdline arguments causes denial of service (CVE-2018-1120) * kernel: a NULL pointer dereference in dccp_write_xmit() leads to a system crash (CVE-2018-1130) * kernel: drivers/block/loop.c mishandles lo_release serialization allowing denial of service (CVE-2018-5344) * kernel: Missing length check of payload in _sctp_make_chunk() function allows denial of service (CVE-2018-5803) * kernel: buffer overflow in drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/ wmi.c:wmi_set_ie() may lead to memory corruption (CVE-2018-5848) * kernel: out-of-bound write in ext4_init_block_bitmap function with a crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-10878) * kernel: Improper validation in bnx2x network card driver can allow for denial of service attacks via crafted packet (CVE-2018-1000026) * kernel: Information leak when handling NM entries containing NUL (CVE-2016-4913) * kernel: Mishandling mutex within libsas allowing local Denial of Service (CVE-2017-18232) * kernel: NULL pointer dereference in ext4_process_freed_data() when mounting crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-1092) * kernel: NULL pointer dereference in ext4_xattr_inode_hash() causes crash with crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-1094) * kernel: vhost: Information disclosure in vhost/vhost.c:vhost_new_msg() (CVE-2018-1118) * kernel: Denial of service in resv_map_release function in mm/hugetlb.c (CVE-2018-7740) * kernel: Memory leak in the sas_smp_get_phy_events function in drivers/scsi/ libsas/sas_expander.c (CVE-2018-7757) * kernel: Invalid pointer dereference in xfs_ilock_attr_map_shared() when mounting crafted xfs image allowing denial of service (CVE-2018-10322) * kernel: use-after-free detected in ext4_xattr_set_entry with a crafted file (CVE-2018-10879) * kernel: out-of-bound access in ext4_get_group_info() when mounting and operating a crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-10881) * kernel: stack-out-of-bounds write in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata function (CVE-2018-10883) * kernel: incorrect memory bounds check in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c (CVE-2018-10940) Red Hat would like to thank Juha-Matti Tilli (Aalto University - Department of Communications and Networking and Nokia Bell Labs) for reporting CVE-2018-5391; Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative for reporting CVE-2018-10902; Qualys Research Labs for reporting CVE-2018-1120; Evgenii Shatokhin (Virtuozzo Team) for reporting CVE-2018-1130; and Wen Xu for reporting CVE-2018-1092 and CVE-2018-1094. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 118770 published 2018-11-07 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/118770 title Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2018-3083) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-3678-2.NASL description Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle corrupted meta data in some situations. An attacker could use this to specially craft an ext4 file system that caused a denial of service (system crash) when mounted. (CVE-2018-1092) It was discovered that the 802.11 software simulator implementation in the Linux kernel contained a memory leak when handling certain error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2018-8087) It was discovered that a memory leak existed in the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) implementation in the Linux kernel. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2018-10021). 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 seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 110481 published 2018-06-12 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/110481 title Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : linux-azure vulnerabilities (USN-3678-2) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2018-1855-2.NASL description The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 LTSS kernel was updated receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2018-5848: In the function wmi_set_ie(), the length validation code did not handle unsigned integer overflow properly. As a result, a large value of the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 118272 published 2018-10-22 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/118272 title SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1855-2) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2018-3096.NASL description An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements. Security Fix(es) : * A flaw named FragmentSmack was found in the way the Linux kernel handled reassembly of fragmented IPv4 and IPv6 packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to trigger time and calculation expensive fragment reassembly algorithm by sending specially crafted packets which could lead to a CPU saturation and hence a denial of service on the system. (CVE-2018-5391) * kernel: out-of-bounds access in the show_timer function in kernel/time/ posix-timers.c (CVE-2017-18344) * kernel: Integer overflow in udl_fb_mmap() can allow attackers to execute code in kernel space (CVE-2018-8781) * kernel: MIDI driver race condition leads to a double-free (CVE-2018-10902) * kernel: Missing check in inode_init_owner() does not clear SGID bit on non-directories for non-members (CVE-2018-13405) * kernel: AIO write triggers integer overflow in some protocols (CVE-2015-8830) * kernel: Use-after-free in snd_pcm_info function in ALSA subsystem potentially leads to privilege escalation (CVE-2017-0861) * kernel: Handling of might_cancel queueing is not properly pretected against race (CVE-2017-10661) * kernel: Salsa20 encryption algorithm does not correctly handle zero-length inputs allowing local attackers to cause denial of service (CVE-2017-17805) * kernel: Inifinite loop vulnerability in madvise_willneed() function allows local denial of service (CVE-2017-18208) * kernel: fuse-backed file mmap-ed onto process cmdline arguments causes denial of service (CVE-2018-1120) * kernel: a NULL pointer dereference in dccp_write_xmit() leads to a system crash (CVE-2018-1130) * kernel: drivers/block/loop.c mishandles lo_release serialization allowing denial of service (CVE-2018-5344) * kernel: Missing length check of payload in _sctp_make_chunk() function allows denial of service (CVE-2018-5803) * kernel: buffer overflow in drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/ wmi.c:wmi_set_ie() may lead to memory corruption (CVE-2018-5848) * kernel: out-of-bound write in ext4_init_block_bitmap function with a crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-10878) * kernel: Improper validation in bnx2x network card driver can allow for denial of service attacks via crafted packet (CVE-2018-1000026) * kernel: Information leak when handling NM entries containing NUL (CVE-2016-4913) * kernel: Mishandling mutex within libsas allowing local Denial of Service (CVE-2017-18232) * kernel: NULL pointer dereference in ext4_process_freed_data() when mounting crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-1092) * kernel: NULL pointer dereference in ext4_xattr_inode_hash() causes crash with crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-1094) * kernel: vhost: Information disclosure in vhost.c:vhost_new_msg() (CVE-2018-1118) * kernel: Denial of service in resv_map_release function in mm/hugetlb.c (CVE-2018-7740) * kernel: Memory leak in the sas_smp_get_phy_events function in drivers/scsi/ libsas/sas_expander.c (CVE-2018-7757) * kernel: Invalid pointer dereference in xfs_ilock_attr_map_shared() when mounting crafted xfs image allowing denial of service (CVE-2018-10322) * kernel: use-after-free detected in ext4_xattr_set_entry with a crafted file (CVE-2018-10879) * kernel: out-of-bound access in ext4_get_group_info() when mounting and operating a crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-10881) * kernel: stack-out-of-bounds write in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata function (CVE-2018-10883) * kernel: incorrect memory bounds check in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c (CVE-2018-10940) Red Hat would like to thank Juha-Matti Tilli (Aalto University - Department of Communications and Networking and Nokia Bell Labs) for reporting CVE-2018-5391; Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative for reporting CVE-2018-10902; Qualys Research Labs for reporting CVE-2018-1120; Evgenii Shatokhin (Virtuozzo Team) for reporting CVE-2018-1130; and Wen Xu for reporting CVE-2018-1092 and CVE-2018-1094. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 118528 published 2018-10-31 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/118528 title RHEL 7 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2018:3096) NASL family Slackware Local Security Checks NASL id SLACKWARE_SSA_2018-142-01.NASL description New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to fix a regression in the getsockopt() function and to fix two denial-of-service security issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 109948 published 2018-05-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/109948 title Slackware 14.2 : Slackware 14.2 kernel (SSA:2018-142-01) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-4187.NASL description Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. - CVE-2015-9016 Ming Lei reported a race condition in the multiqueue block layer (blk-mq). On a system with a driver using blk-mq (mtip32xx, null_blk, or virtio_blk), a local user might be able to use this for denial of service or possibly for privilege escalation. - CVE-2017-0861 Robb Glasser reported a potential use-after-free in the ALSA (sound) PCM core. We believe this was not possible in practice. - CVE-2017-5715 Multiple researchers have discovered a vulnerability in various processors supporting speculative execution, enabling an attacker controlling an unprivileged process to read memory from arbitrary addresses, including from the kernel and all other processes running on the system. This specific attack has been named Spectre variant 2 (branch target injection) and is mitigated for the x86 architecture (amd64 and i386) by using the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 109517 published 2018-05-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/109517 title Debian DSA-4187-1 : linux - security update (Spectre) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2018-762.NASL description The openSUSE Leap 15 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-13406: An integer overflow in the uvesafb_setcmap function could have result in local attackers being able to crash the kernel or potentially elevate privileges because kmalloc_array is not used (bnc#1100418) - CVE-2018-13053: The alarm_timer_nsleep function had an integer overflow via a large relative timeout because ktime_add_safe was not used (bnc#1099924) - CVE-2018-9385: Prevent overread of the last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-07-30 plugin id 111414 published 2018-07-30 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/111414 title openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2018-762) (Spectre) NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2018-2_0-0041.NASL description An update of {'ceph', 'linux-esx', 'rsync', 'linux', 'linux-secure', 'linux-aws'} packages of Photon OS has been released. last seen 2019-02-21 modified 2019-02-07 plugin id 111300 published 2018-07-24 reporter Tenable source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=111300 title Photon OS 2.0 : ceph / linux-esx / rsync / linux / linux-secure / linux-aws (PhotonOS-PHSA-2018-2.0-0041) (deprecated) NASL family OracleVM Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLEVM_OVMSA-2019-0002.NASL description The 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 seen 2020-03-18 modified 2019-02-06 plugin id 121605 published 2019-02-06 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/121605 title OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2019-0002) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-3677-1.NASL description It was discovered that the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel did not properly validate ebtables offsets. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-1068) Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle corrupted meta data in some situations. An attacker could use this to specially craft an ext4 file system that caused a denial of service (system crash) when mounted. (CVE-2018-1092) It was discovered that a NULL pointer dereference existed in the RDS (Reliable Datagram Sockets) protocol implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2018-7492) It was discovered that the 802.11 software simulator implementation in the Linux kernel contained a memory leak when handling certain error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2018-8087) Eyal Itkin discovered that the USB displaylink video adapter driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate mmap offsets sent from userspace. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (kernel memory) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-8781). 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 seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 110478 published 2018-06-12 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/110478 title Ubuntu 17.10 : linux, linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities (USN-3677-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2018-656.NASL description The openSUSE Leap 42.3 was updated to 4.4.138 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-3639: Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prior memory writes are known may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Store Bypass (SSB), Variant 4 (bsc#1085308 bsc#1087082) This update improves the previous Spectre Variant 4 fixes and also mitigates them on the ARM architecture. - CVE-2018-3665: The FPU state and registers of x86 CPUs were saved and restored in a lazy fashion, which opened its disclosure by speculative side channel attacks. This has been fixed by replacing the lazy save/restore by eager saving and restoring (bnc#1087086) - CVE-2018-5848: In the function wmi_set_ie(), the length validation code did not handle unsigned integer overflow properly. As a result, a large value of the last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-06-22 plugin id 110658 published 2018-06-22 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/110658 title openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2018-656) (Spectre) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-3676-2.NASL description USN-3676-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement (HWE) kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle corrupted meta data in some situations. An attacker could use this to specially craft an ext4 file system that caused a denial of service (system crash) when mounted. (CVE-2018-1092, CVE-2018-1093) It was discovered that the cdrom driver in the Linux kernel contained an incorrect bounds check. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2018-10940) It was discovered that the 802.11 software simulator implementation in the Linux kernel contained a memory leak when handling certain error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2018-8087). 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 seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 110477 published 2018-06-12 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/110477 title Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws vulnerabilities (USN-3676-2) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2018-2092-1.NASL description The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following new feature was added : - NVDIMM memory error notification (ACPI 6.2) The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-13406: An integer overflow in the uvesafb_setcmap function could have result in local attackers being able to crash the kernel or potentially elevate privileges because kmalloc_array is not used (bnc#1100418) - CVE-2018-13053: The alarm_timer_nsleep function had an integer overflow via a large relative timeout because ktime_add_safe was not used (bnc#1099924) - CVE-2018-9385: Prevent overread of the last seen 2020-03-21 modified 2019-01-02 plugin id 120067 published 2019-01-02 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/120067 title SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:2092-1) (Spectre) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-1076.NASL description According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A security flaw was found in the ip_frag_reasm() function in net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c in the Linux kernel which can cause a later system crash in ip_do_fragment(). With certain non-default, but non-rare, configuration of a victim host, an attacker can trigger this crash remotely, thus leading to a remote denial of service.(CVE-2018-14641) - A flaw named FragmentSmack was found in the way the Linux kernel handled reassembly of fragmented IPv4 and IPv6 packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to trigger time and calculation expensive fragment reassembly algorithm by sending specially crafted packets which could lead to a CPU saturation and hence a denial of service on the system.(CVE-2018-5391) - The resv_map_release function in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel, through 4.15.7, allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG) via a crafted application that makes mmap system calls and has a large pgoff argument to the remap_file_pages system call. (CVE-2018-7740) - A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the way the Linux kernel last seen 2020-05-06 modified 2019-03-08 plugin id 122699 published 2019-03-08 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/122699 title EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1076) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2018-2948.NASL description An update for kernel-alt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. The kernel-alt packages provide the Linux kernel version 4.x. Security Fix(es) : * An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions (a commonly used performance optimization). It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the fact that memory read from address to which a recent memory write has occurred may see an older value and subsequently cause an update into the microprocessor last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 118513 published 2018-10-31 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/118513 title RHEL 7 : kernel-alt (RHSA-2018:2948) (Spectre) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-1229.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 : - The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc.Security Fix(es):The Linux kernel is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference in the ext4/mballoc.c:ext4_process_freed_data() function. An attacker could trick a legitimate user or a privileged attacker could exploit this by mounting a crafted ext4 image to cause a kernel panic.(CVE-2018-1092)The resv_map_release function in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel, through 4.15.7, allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG) via a crafted application that makes mmap system calls and has a large pgoff argument to the remap_file_pages system call.(CVE-2018-7740) 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. last seen 2020-04-16 modified 2019-04-04 plugin id 123697 published 2019-04-04 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/123697 title EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.4 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1229) NASL family CentOS Local Security Checks NASL id CENTOS_RHSA-2018-3083.NASL description An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fix(es) : * A flaw named FragmentSmack was found in the way the Linux kernel handled reassembly of fragmented IPv4 and IPv6 packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to trigger time and calculation expensive fragment reassembly algorithm by sending specially crafted packets which could lead to a CPU saturation and hence a denial of service on the system. (CVE-2018-5391) * kernel: out-of-bounds access in the show_timer function in kernel/time/ posix-timers.c (CVE-2017-18344) * kernel: Integer overflow in udl_fb_mmap() can allow attackers to execute code in kernel space (CVE-2018-8781) * kernel: MIDI driver race condition leads to a double-free (CVE-2018-10902) * kernel: Missing check in inode_init_owner() does not clear SGID bit on non-directories for non-members (CVE-2018-13405) * kernel: AIO write triggers integer overflow in some protocols (CVE-2015-8830) * kernel: Use-after-free in snd_pcm_info function in ALSA subsystem potentially leads to privilege escalation (CVE-2017-0861) * kernel: Handling of might_cancel queueing is not properly pretected against race (CVE-2017-10661) * kernel: Salsa20 encryption algorithm does not correctly handle zero-length inputs allowing local attackers to cause denial of service (CVE-2017-17805) * kernel: Inifinite loop vulnerability in madvise_willneed() function allows local denial of service (CVE-2017-18208) * kernel: fuse-backed file mmap-ed onto process cmdline arguments causes denial of service (CVE-2018-1120) * kernel: a NULL pointer dereference in dccp_write_xmit() leads to a system crash (CVE-2018-1130) * kernel: drivers/block/loop.c mishandles lo_release serialization allowing denial of service (CVE-2018-5344) * kernel: Missing length check of payload in _sctp_make_chunk() function allows denial of service (CVE-2018-5803) * kernel: buffer overflow in drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/ wmi.c:wmi_set_ie() may lead to memory corruption (CVE-2018-5848) * kernel: out-of-bound write in ext4_init_block_bitmap function with a crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-10878) * kernel: Improper validation in bnx2x network card driver can allow for denial of service attacks via crafted packet (CVE-2018-1000026) * kernel: Information leak when handling NM entries containing NUL (CVE-2016-4913) * kernel: Mishandling mutex within libsas allowing local Denial of Service (CVE-2017-18232) * kernel: NULL pointer dereference in ext4_process_freed_data() when mounting crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-1092) * kernel: NULL pointer dereference in ext4_xattr_inode_hash() causes crash with crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-1094) * kernel: vhost: Information disclosure in vhost/vhost.c:vhost_new_msg() (CVE-2018-1118) * kernel: Denial of service in resv_map_release function in mm/hugetlb.c (CVE-2018-7740) * kernel: Memory leak in the sas_smp_get_phy_events function in drivers/scsi/ libsas/sas_expander.c (CVE-2018-7757) * kernel: Invalid pointer dereference in xfs_ilock_attr_map_shared() when mounting crafted xfs image allowing denial of service (CVE-2018-10322) * kernel: use-after-free detected in ext4_xattr_set_entry with a crafted file (CVE-2018-10879) * kernel: out-of-bound access in ext4_get_group_info() when mounting and operating a crafted ext4 image (CVE-2018-10881) * kernel: stack-out-of-bounds write in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata function (CVE-2018-10883) * kernel: incorrect memory bounds check in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c (CVE-2018-10940) Red Hat would like to thank Juha-Matti Tilli (Aalto University - Department of Communications and Networking and Nokia Bell Labs) for reporting CVE-2018-5391; Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative for reporting CVE-2018-10902; Qualys Research Labs for reporting CVE-2018-1120; Evgenii Shatokhin (Virtuozzo Team) for reporting CVE-2018-1130; and Wen Xu for reporting CVE-2018-1092 and CVE-2018-1094. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 118990 published 2018-11-16 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/118990 title CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2018:3083) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2018-1432.NASL description According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - In the Linux Kernel before version 4.15.8, 4.14.25, 4.9.87, 4.4.121, 4.1.51, and 3.2.102, an error in the last seen 2020-05-06 modified 2018-12-28 plugin id 119921 published 2018-12-28 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/119921 title EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2018-1432) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-4188.NASL description Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. - CVE-2017-5715 Multiple researchers have discovered a vulnerability in various processors supporting speculative execution, enabling an attacker controlling an unprivileged process to read memory from arbitrary addresses, including from the kernel and all other processes running on the system. This specific attack has been named Spectre variant 2 (branch target injection) and is mitigated for the x86 architecture (amd64 and i386) by using the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 109518 published 2018-05-02 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/109518 title Debian DSA-4188-1 : linux - security update (Spectre) NASL family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2019-4316.NASL description Description of changes: kernel-uek [3.8.13-118.29.1.el7uek] - Copy secure_boot flag in boot params across kexec reboot (Dave Young) [Orabug: 22066352] {CVE-2015-7837} - ipv6: tcp: add rcu locking in tcp_v6_send_synack() (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 25059183] {CVE-2016-3841} - ipv6: add complete rcu protection around np->opt (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 25059183] {CVE-2016-3841} - scsi: qla2xxx: Fix an integer overflow in sysfs code (Dan Carpenter) [Orabug: 28220420] {CVE-2017-14051} - ext4: fail ext4_iget for root directory if unallocated (Theodore Ts last seen 2020-03-18 modified 2019-01-07 plugin id 120977 published 2019-01-07 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/120977 title Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2019-4316) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2019-536.NASL description The openSUSE Leap 15 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-13406: An integer overflow in the uvesafb_setcmap function could have result in local attackers being able to crash the kernel or potentially elevate privileges because kmalloc_array is not used (bnc#1100418) - CVE-2018-13053: The alarm_timer_nsleep function had an integer overflow via a large relative timeout because ktime_add_safe was not used (bnc#1099924) - CVE-2018-9385: Prevent overread of the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 123226 published 2019-03-27 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/123226 title openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2019-536) (Spectre) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-3678-3.NASL description Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle corrupted meta data in some situations. An attacker could use this to specially craft an ext4 file system that caused a denial of service (system crash) when mounted. (CVE-2018-1092) It was discovered that the 802.11 software simulator implementation in the Linux kernel contained a memory leak when handling certain error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2018-8087) It was discovered that a memory leak existed in the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) implementation in the Linux kernel. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2018-10021). 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 seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 110513 published 2018-06-13 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/110513 title Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : linux-azure vulnerabilities (USN-3678-3) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-1507.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 : - The Linux kernel has an undefined behavior when an argument of INT_MIN is passed to the kernel/signal.c:kill_something_info() function. A local attacker may be able to exploit this to cause a denial of service.(CVE-2018-10124) - The xfs_dinode_verify function in fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c in the Linux kernel can cause a NULL pointer dereference in xfs_ilock_attr_map_shared function. An attacker could trick a legitimate user or a privileged attacker could exploit this by mounting a crafted xfs filesystem image to cause a kernel panic and thus a denial of service.(CVE-2018-10322) - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 124830 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/124830 title EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1507) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-3678-4.NASL description Wen Xu discovered that the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle corrupted meta data in some situations. An attacker could use this to specially craft an ext4 file system that caused a denial of service (system crash) when mounted. (CVE-2018-1092) It was discovered that the 802.11 software simulator implementation in the Linux kernel contained a memory leak when handling certain error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2018-8087) It was discovered that a memory leak existed in the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) implementation in the Linux kernel. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2018-10021). 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 seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 110550 published 2018-06-15 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/110550 title Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities (USN-3678-4)
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/commit/?id=8e4b5eae5decd9dfe5a4ee369c22028f90ab4c44
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1560777
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199179
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/03/29/1
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199275
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4188
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4187
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00000.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-2/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3677-2/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3677-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3676-2/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3676-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-3/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3678-4/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3754-1/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3096
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3083
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2948