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HistoryNov 22, 2016 - 12:00 a.m.

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20161115)

2016-11-2200:00:00
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Security Fix(es) :

  • It was found that stacking a file system over procfs in the Linux kernel could lead to a kernel stack overflow due to deep nesting, as demonstrated by mounting ecryptfs over procfs and creating a recursion by mapping /proc/environ. An unprivileged, local user could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2016-1583, Important)

  • It was reported that on s390x, the fork of a process with four page table levels will cause memory corruption with a variety of symptoms. All processes are created with three level page table and a limit of 4TB for the address space. If the parent process has four page table levels with a limit of 8PB, the function that duplicates the address space will try to copy memory areas outside of the address space limit for the child process.
    (CVE-2016-2143, Moderate)

Bug Fix(es) :

  • Use of a multi-threaded workload with high memory mappings sometiems caused a kernel panic, due to a race condition between the context switch and the pagetable upgrade. This update fixes the switch_mm() by using the complete asce parameter instead of the asce_bits parameter. As a result, the kernel no longer panics in the described scenario.

  • When iptables created the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) reset packet, a kernel crash could occur due to uninitialized pointer to the TCP header within the Socket Buffer (SKB). This update fixes the transport header pointer in TCP reset for both IPv4 and IPv6, and the kernel no longer crashes in the described situation.

  • Previously, when the Enhanced Error Handling (EEH) mechanism did not block the PCI configuration space access and an error was detected, a kernel panic occurred. This update fixes EEH to fix this problem. As a result, the kernel no longer panics in the described scenario.

  • When the lockd service failed to start up completely, the notifier blocks were in some cases registered on a notification chain multiple times, which caused the occurrence of a circular list on the notification chain.
    Consequently, a soft lock-up or a kernel oops occurred.
    With this update, the notifier blocks are unregistered if lockd fails to start up completely, and the soft lock-ups or the kernel oopses no longer occur under the described circumstances.

  • When the Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) was configured, the FCoE MaxFrameSize parameter was incorrectly restricted to 1452. With this update, the NETIF_F_ALL_FCOE symbol is no longer ignored, which fixes this bug. MaxFrameSize is now restricted to 2112, which is the correct value.

  • When the fnic driver was installed on Cisco UCS Blade Server, the discs were under certain circumstances put into the offline state with the following error message:
    ‘Medium access timeout failure. Offlining disk!’. This update fixes fnic to set the Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) status as DID_ABORT after a successful abort operation. As a result, the discs are no longer put into the offlined state in the described situation.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text is (C) Scientific Linux.
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include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(95050);
  script_version("2.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/14");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-1583", "CVE-2016-2143");

  script_name(english:"Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20161115)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security
updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Security Fix(es) :

  - It was found that stacking a file system over procfs in
    the Linux kernel could lead to a kernel stack overflow
    due to deep nesting, as demonstrated by mounting
    ecryptfs over procfs and creating a recursion by mapping
    /proc/environ. An unprivileged, local user could
    potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges
    on the system. (CVE-2016-1583, Important)

  - It was reported that on s390x, the fork of a process
    with four page table levels will cause memory corruption
    with a variety of symptoms. All processes are created
    with three level page table and a limit of 4TB for the
    address space. If the parent process has four page table
    levels with a limit of 8PB, the function that duplicates
    the address space will try to copy memory areas outside
    of the address space limit for the child process.
    (CVE-2016-2143, Moderate)

Bug Fix(es) :

  - Use of a multi-threaded workload with high memory
    mappings sometiems caused a kernel panic, due to a race
    condition between the context switch and the pagetable
    upgrade. This update fixes the switch_mm() by using the
    complete asce parameter instead of the asce_bits
    parameter. As a result, the kernel no longer panics in
    the described scenario.

  - When iptables created the Transmission Control Protocol
    (TCP) reset packet, a kernel crash could occur due to
    uninitialized pointer to the TCP header within the
    Socket Buffer (SKB). This update fixes the transport
    header pointer in TCP reset for both IPv4 and IPv6, and
    the kernel no longer crashes in the described situation.

  - Previously, when the Enhanced Error Handling (EEH)
    mechanism did not block the PCI configuration space
    access and an error was detected, a kernel panic
    occurred. This update fixes EEH to fix this problem. As
    a result, the kernel no longer panics in the described
    scenario.

  - When the lockd service failed to start up completely,
    the notifier blocks were in some cases registered on a
    notification chain multiple times, which caused the
    occurrence of a circular list on the notification chain.
    Consequently, a soft lock-up or a kernel oops occurred.
    With this update, the notifier blocks are unregistered
    if lockd fails to start up completely, and the soft
    lock-ups or the kernel oopses no longer occur under the
    described circumstances.

  - When the Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) was
    configured, the FCoE MaxFrameSize parameter was
    incorrectly restricted to 1452. With this update, the
    NETIF_F_ALL_FCOE symbol is no longer ignored, which
    fixes this bug. MaxFrameSize is now restricted to 2112,
    which is the correct value.

  - When the fnic driver was installed on Cisco UCS Blade
    Server, the discs were under certain circumstances put
    into the offline state with the following error message:
    'Medium access timeout failure. Offlining disk!'. This
    update fixes fnic to set the Small Computer System
    Interface (SCSI) status as DID_ABORT after a successful
    abort operation. As a result, the discs are no longer
    put into the offlined state in the described situation."
  );
  # https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1611&L=scientific-linux-errata&F=&S=&P=3698
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?de3aa8c5"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/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:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-abi-whitelists");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-debug");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-debug-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-debug-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-debuginfo-common-i686");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-doc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-firmware");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-headers");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:perf");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:perf-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:python-perf");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:python-perf-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"x-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/04/27");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/11/15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/11/22");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Scientific Linux Local Security Checks");

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

  exit(0);
}


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

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Scientific Linux " >!< release) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "running Scientific Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Scientific Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Scientific Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^6([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Scientific Linux 6.x", "Scientific 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 (cpu >!< "x86_64" && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Scientific Linux", cpu);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"kernel-2.6.32-642.11.1.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"kernel-abi-whitelists-2.6.32-642.11.1.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"kernel-debug-2.6.32-642.11.1.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.32-642.11.1.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-642.11.1.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-642.11.1.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-2.6.32-642.11.1.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-2.6.32-642.11.1.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"kernel-devel-2.6.32-642.11.1.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"kernel-doc-2.6.32-642.11.1.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"kernel-firmware-2.6.32-642.11.1.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"kernel-headers-2.6.32-642.11.1.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"perf-2.6.32-642.11.1.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-642.11.1.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"python-perf-2.6.32-642.11.1.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"python-perf-debuginfo-2.6.32-642.11.1.el6")) 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 / kernel-abi-whitelists / kernel-debug / etc");
}
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