kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2014:1023

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux
operating system.

• It was found that Linux kernel’s ptrace subsystem did not properly
  sanitize the address-space-control bits when the program-status word (PSW)
  was being set. On IBM S/390 systems, a local, unprivileged user could use
  this flaw to set address-space-control bits to the kernel space, and thus
  gain read and write access to kernel memory. (CVE-2014-3534, Important)

• It was found that the permission checks performed by the Linux kernel
  when a netlink message was received were not sufficient. A local,
  unprivileged user could potentially bypass these restrictions by passing a
  netlink socket as stdout or stderr to a more privileged process and
  altering the output of this process. (CVE-2014-0181, Moderate)

• It was found that a remote attacker could use a race condition flaw in
  the ath_tx_aggr_sleep() function to crash the system by creating large
  network traffic on the system’s Atheros 9k wireless network adapter.
  (CVE-2014-2672, Moderate)

• A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel performed forking inside of
  a transaction. A local, unprivileged user on a PowerPC system that supports
  transactional memory could use this flaw to crash the system.
  (CVE-2014-2673, Moderate)

• A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel’s mac80211
  subsystem implementation handled synchronization between TX and STA wake-up
  code paths. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system.
  (CVE-2014-2706, Moderate)

• An integer underflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel’s Stream
  Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation processed certain
  COOKIE_ECHO packets. By sending a specially crafted SCTP packet, a remote
  attacker could use this flaw to prevent legitimate connections to a
  particular SCTP server socket to be made. (CVE-2014-4667, Moderate)

Red Hat would like to thank Martin Schwidefsky of IBM for reporting
CVE-2014-3534, Andy Lutomirski for reporting CVE-2014-0181, and Gopal Reddy
Kodudula of Nokia Siemens Networks for reporting CVE-2014-4667.

This update also fixes the following bugs:

• Due to a NULL pointer dereference bug in the IPIP and SIT tunneling code,
  a kernel panic could be triggered when using IPIP or SIT tunnels with
  IPsec. This update restructures the related code to avoid a NULL pointer
  dereference and the kernel no longer panics when using IPIP or SIT tunnels
  with IPsec. (BZ#1114957)

• Previously, an IBM POWER8 system could terminate unexpectedly when the
  kernel received an IRQ while handling a transactional memory re-checkpoint
  critical section. This update ensures that IRQs are disabled in this
  situation and the problem no longer occurs. (BZ#1113150)

• A missing read memory barrier, rmb(), in the bnx2x driver caused the
  kernel to crash under various circumstances. This problem has been fixed
  by adding an rmb() call to the relevant place in the bnx2x code.
  (BZ#1107721)

• The hpwdt driver previously emitted a panic message that was misleading
  on certain HP systems. This update ensures that upon a kernel panic, hpwdt
  displays information valid on all HP systems. (BZ#1096961)

• The qla2xxx driver has been upgraded to version 8.06.00.08.07.0-k3,
  which provides a number of bug fixes over the previous version in order to
  correct various timeout problems with the mailbox commands. (BZ#1112389)

• The SCSI mid-layer could retry an I/O operation indefinitely if a storage
  array repeatedly returned a CHECK CONDITION status to that I/O operation
  but the sense data was invalid. This update fixes the problem by limiting
  a time for which is such an I/O operation retried. (BZ#1114468)

All kernel users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be
rebooted for this update to take effect.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-August/082637.html

Affected packages:
kernel
kernel-abi-whitelists
kernel-debug
kernel-debug-devel
kernel-devel
kernel-doc
kernel-headers
kernel-tools
kernel-tools-libs
kernel-tools-libs-devel
perf
python-perf

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1023