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Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

2016-06-2416:09:53
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The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various
security and bugfixes.

Notable changes in this kernel:

  • It is now possible to mount a NFS export on the exporting host directly.

The following security bugs were fixed:

  • CVE-2016-5244: A kernel information leak in rds_inc_info_copy was fixed
    that could leak kernel stack memory to userspace (bsc#983213).
  • CVE-2016-1583: Prevent the usage of mmap when the lower file system does
    not allow it. This could have lead to local privilege escalation when
    ecryptfs-utils was installed and /sbin/mount.ecryptfs_private was setuid
    (bsc#983143).
  • CVE-2016-4913: The get_rock_ridge_filename function in fs/isofs/rock.c
    in the Linux kernel mishandles NM (aka alternate name) entries
    containing \0 characters, which allowed local users to obtain sensitive
    information from kernel memory or possibly have unspecified other impact
    via a crafted isofs filesystem (bnc#980725).
  • CVE-2016-4580: The x25_negotiate_facilities function in
    net/x25/x25_facilities.c in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize
    a certain data structure, which allowed attackers to obtain sensitive
    information from kernel stack memory via an X.25 Call Request
    (bnc#981267).
  • CVE-2016-4805: Use-after-free vulnerability in
    drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to
    cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash, or
    spinlock) or possibly have unspecified other impact by removing a
    network namespace, related to the ppp_register_net_channel and
    ppp_unregister_channel functions (bnc#980371).
  • CVE-2016-0758: Tags with indefinite length could have corrupted pointers
    in asn1_find_indefinite_length (bsc#979867).
  • CVE-2016-2187: The gtco_probe function in drivers/input/tablet/gtco.c in
    the Linux kernel allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a
    denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a
    crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor (bnc#971944).
  • CVE-2016-4482: The proc_connectinfo function in drivers/usb/core/devio.c
    in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain data structure, which
    allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack
    memory via a crafted USBDEVFS_CONNECTINFO ioctl call (bnc#978401).
  • CVE-2016-2053: The asn1_ber_decoder function in lib/asn1_decoder.c in
    the Linux kernel allowed attackers to cause a denial of service (panic)
    via an ASN.1 BER file that lacks a public key, leading to mishandling by
    the public_key_verify_signature function in
    crypto/asymmetric_keys/public_key.c (bnc#963762).
  • CVE-2016-4565: The InfiniBand (aka IB) stack in the Linux kernel
    incorrectly relies on the write system call, which allowed local users
    to cause a denial of service (kernel memory write operation) or possibly
    have unspecified other impact via a uAPI interface (bnc#979548).
  • CVE-2016-4485: The llc_cmsg_rcv function in net/llc/af_llc.c in the
    Linux kernel did not initialize a certain data structure, which allowed
    attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by
    reading a message (bnc#978821).
  • CVE-2016-4578: sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize
    certain r1 data structures, which allowed local users to obtain
    sensitive information from kernel stack memory via crafted use of the
    ALSA timer interface, related to the (1) snd_timer_user_ccallback and
    (2) snd_timer_user_tinterrupt functions (bnc#979879).
  • CVE-2016-4569: The snd_timer_user_params function in sound/core/timer.c
    in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain data structure, which
    allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack
    memory via crafted use of the ALSA timer interface (bnc#979213).
  • CVE-2016-4486: The rtnl_fill_link_ifmap function in net/core/rtnetlink.c
    in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain data structure, which
    allowed local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack
    memory by reading a Netlink message (bnc#978822).
  • CVE-2016-3134: The netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did not
    validate certain offset fields, which allowed local users to gain
    privileges or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via an
    IPT_SO_SET_REPLACE setsockopt call (bnc#971126).
  • CVE-2016-2847: fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel did not limit the amount of
    unread data in pipes, which allowed local users to cause a denial of
    service (memory consumption) by creating many pipes with non-default
    sizes (bnc#970948).
  • CVE-2016-2188: The iowarrior_probe function in
    drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c in the Linux kernel allowed physically
    proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer
    dereference and system crash) via a crafted endpoints value in a USB
    device descriptor (bnc#970956).
  • CVE-2016-3138: The acm_probe function in drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c in
    the Linux kernel allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a
    denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a USB
    device without both a control and a data endpoint descriptor
    (bnc#970911).
  • CVE-2016-3137: drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.c in the Linux kernel
    allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service
    (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a USB device without
    both an interrupt-in and an interrupt-out endpoint descriptor, related
    to the cypress_generic_port_probe and cypress_open functions
    (bnc#970970).
  • CVE-2016-3140: The digi_port_init function in
    drivers/usb/serial/digi_acceleport.c in the Linux kernel allowed
    physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL
    pointer dereference and system crash) via a crafted endpoints value in a
    USB device descriptor (bnc#970892).
  • CVE-2016-2186: The powermate_probe function in
    drivers/input/misc/powermate.c in the Linux kernel allowed physically
    proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer
    dereference and system crash) via a crafted endpoints value in a USB
    device descriptor (bnc#970958).
  • CVE-2016-2185: The ati_remote2_probe function in
    drivers/input/misc/ati_remote2.c in the Linux kernel allowed physically
    proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer
    dereference and system crash) via a crafted endpoints value in a USB
    device descriptor (bnc#971124).
  • CVE-2016-3156: The IPv4 implementation in the Linux kernel mishandles
    destruction of device objects, which allowed guest OS users to cause a
    denial of service (host OS networking outage) by arranging for a large
    number of IP addresses (bnc#971360).
  • CVE-2016-2184: The create_fixed_stream_quirk function in
    sound/usb/quirks.c in the snd-usb-audio driver in the Linux kernel
    allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service
    (NULL pointer dereference or double free, and system crash) via a
    crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor (bnc#971125).
  • CVE-2016-3139: The wacom_probe function in
    drivers/input/tablet/wacom_sys.c in the Linux kernel allowed physically
    proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer
    dereference and system crash) via a crafted endpoints value in a USB
    device descriptor (bnc#970909).
  • CVE-2016-2143: The fork implementation in the Linux kernel on s390
    platforms mishandles the case of four page-table levels, which allowed
    local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have
    unspecified other impact via a crafted application, related to
    arch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h and arch/s390/include/asm/pgalloc.h
    (bnc#970504).
  • CVE-2016-2782: The treo_attach function in drivers/usb/serial/visor.c in
    the Linux kernel allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a
    denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or
    possibly have unspecified other impact by inserting a USB device that
    lacks a (1) bulk-in or (2) interrupt-in endpoint (bnc#968670).
  • CVE-2015-8816: The hub_activate function in drivers/usb/core/hub.c in
    the Linux kernel did not properly maintain a hub-interface data
    structure, which allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a
    denial of service (invalid memory access and system crash) or possibly
    have unspecified other impact by unplugging a USB hub device
    (bnc#968010).
  • CVE-2015-7566: The clie_5_attach function in drivers/usb/serial/visor.c
    in the Linux kernel allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a
    denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or
    possibly have unspecified other impact by inserting a USB device that
    lacked a bulk-out endpoint (bnc#961512).

The following non-security bugs were fixed:

  • acpi / PCI: Account for ARI in _PRT lookups (bsc#968566).
  • af_unix: Guard against other == sk in unix_dgram_sendmsg (bsc#973570).
  • alsa: hrtimer: Handle start/stop more properly (bsc#973378).
  • alsa: oxygen: add Xonar DGX support (bsc#982691).
  • alsa: pcm: Fix potential deadlock in OSS emulation (bsc#968018).
  • alsa: rawmidi: Fix race at copying and updating the position
    (bsc#968018).
  • alsa: rawmidi: Make snd_rawmidi_transmit() race-free (bsc#968018).
  • alsa: seq: Fix double port list deletion (bsc#968018).
  • alsa: seq: Fix incorrect sanity check at snd_seq_oss_synth_cleanup()
    (bsc#968018).
  • alsa: seq: Fix leak of pool buffer at concurrent writes (bsc#968018).
  • alsa: seq: Fix lockdep warnings due to double mutex locks (bsc#968018).
  • alsa: seq: Fix race at closing in virmidi driver (bsc#968018).
  • alsa: seq: Fix yet another races among ALSA timer accesses (bsc#968018).
  • alsa: timer: Call notifier in the same spinlock (bsc#973378).
  • alsa: timer: Code cleanup (bsc#968018).
  • alsa: timer: Fix leftover link at closing (bsc#968018).
  • alsa: timer: Fix link corruption due to double start or stop
    (bsc#968018).
  • alsa: timer: Fix race between stop and interrupt (bsc#968018).
  • alsa: timer: Fix wrong instance passed to slave callbacks (bsc#968018).
  • alsa: timer: Protect the whole snd_timer_close() with open race
    (bsc#973378).
  • alsa: timer: Sync timer deletion at closing the system timer
    (bsc#973378).
  • alsa: timer: Use mod_timer() for rearming the system timer (bsc#973378).
  • cgroups: do not attach task to subsystem if migration failed
    (bnc#979274).
  • cgroups: more safe tasklist locking in cgroup_attach_proc (bnc#979274).
  • cpuset: Fix potential deadlock w/ set_mems_allowed (bsc#960857,
    bsc#974646).
  • dasd: fix hanging system after LCU changes (bnc#968500, LTC#136671).
  • dcache: use IS_ROOT to decide where dentry is hashed (bsc#949752).
  • Delete
    patches.drivers/nvme-0165-Split-header-file-into-user-visible-and-kernel-.p
    atch. SLE11-SP4 does not have uapi headers so move everything back to
    the original header (bnc#981231)
  • Driver: Vmxnet3: set CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY for IPv6 packets (bsc#976739).
  • enic: set netdev->vlan_features (bsc#966245).
  • fcoe: fix reset of fip selection time (bsc#974787).
  • Fix cifs_uniqueid_to_ino_t() function for s390x (bsc#944309)
  • fs, seqfile: always allow oom killer (bnc#968687).
  • fs/seq_file: fallback to vmalloc allocation (bnc#968687).
  • fs, seq_file: fallback to vmalloc instead of oom kill processes
    (bnc#968687).
  • hid-elo: kill not flush the work (bnc#982532).
  • hpsa: fix issues with multilun devices (bsc#959381).
  • hv: Assign correct ->can_queue value in hv_storvsc (bnc#969391)
  • ibmvscsi: Remove unsupported host config MAD (bsc#973556).
  • Import kabi files from kernel 3.0.101-71
  • iommu/vt-d: Improve fault handler error messages (bsc#975772).
  • iommu/vt-d: Ratelimit fault handler (bsc#975772).
  • ipc,sem: fix use after free on IPC_RMID after a task using same
    semaphore set exits (bsc#967914).
  • ipv4/fib: do not warn when primary address is missing if in_dev is dead
    (bsc#971360).
  • ipv4: fix ineffective source address selection (bsc#980788).
  • ipv6: make fib6 serial number per namespace (bsc#965319).
  • ipv6: mld: fix add_grhead skb_over_panic for devs with large MTUs
    (bsc#956852).
  • ipv6: per netns fib6 walkers (bsc#965319).
  • ipv6: per netns FIB garbage collection (bsc#965319).
  • ipv6: replace global gc_args with local variable (bsc#965319).
  • ipvs: count pre-established TCP states as active (bsc#970114).
  • isofs: Revert "get_rock_ridge_filename(): handle malformed NM entries"
    This reverts commit cb6ce3ec7a964e56da9ba9cd3c9f0e708b5c3b2c. It should
    have never landed in the tree (we already have the patch via c63531c60ff
    that came through CVE branch), but I messed up the merge.
  • kabi, fs/seq_file: fallback to vmalloc allocation (bnc#968687).
  • kabi: protect struct netns_ipv6 after FIB6 GC series (bsc#965319).
  • KVM: x86: fix maintenance of guest/host xcr0 state (bsc#961518).
  • llist: Add llist_next().
  • make vfree() safe to call from interrupt contexts .
  • memcg: do not hang on OOM when killed by userspace OOM access to memory
    reserves (bnc#969571).
  • mld, igmp: Fix reserved tailroom calculation (bsc#956852).
  • mm/hugetlb.c: correct missing private flag clearing (VM Functionality,
    bnc#971446).
  • mm/hugetlb: fix backport of upstream commit 07443a85ad (VM
    Functionality, bnc#971446).
  • MM: increase safety margin provided by PF_LESS_THROTTLE (bsc#956491).
  • mm/vmscan.c: avoid throttling reclaim for loop-back nfsd threads
    (bsc#956491).
  • net/core: dev_mc_sync_multiple calls wrong helper (bsc#971433).
  • net/core: __hw_addr_create_ex does not initialize sync_cnt (bsc#971433).
  • net/core: __hw_addr_sync_one / _multiple broken (bsc#971433).
  • net/core: __hw_addr_unsync_one "from" address not marked synced
    (bsc#971433).
  • NFS4: treat lock owners as opaque values (bnc#968141).
  • NFS: avoid deadlocks with loop-back mounted NFS filesystems (bsc#956491).
  • NFS: avoid waiting at all in nfs_release_page when congested
    (bsc#956491).
  • NFSd4: return nfserr_symlink on v4 OPEN of non-regular file (bsc#973237).
  • NFSd: do not fail unchecked creates of non-special files (bsc#973237).
  • NFS: Do not attempt to decode missing directory entries (bsc#980931).
  • nfs: fix memory corruption rooted in get_ih_name pointer math
    (bsc#984107).
  • NFS: reduce access cache shrinker locking (bnc#866130).
  • NFS: use smaller allocations for ‘struct idmap’ (bsc#965923).
  • NFSv4: Ensure that we do not drop a state owner more than once
    (bsc#979595).
  • nfsv4: OPEN must handle the NFS4ERR_IO return code correctly
    (bsc#979595).
  • nvme: fix max_segments integer truncation (bsc#676471).
  • NVMe: Unify controller probe and resume (bsc#979347).
  • ocfs2: do not set fs read-only if rec[0] is empty while committing
    truncate (bnc#971947).
  • ocfs2: extend enough credits for freeing one truncate record while
    replaying truncate records (bnc#971947).
  • ocfs2: extend transaction for ocfs2_remove_rightmost_path() and
    ocfs2_update_edge_lengths() before to avoid inconsistency between inode
    and et (bnc#971947).
  • pciback: check PF instead of VF for PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY (bsc#957990).
  • pciback: Save the number of MSI-X entries to be copied later
    (bsc#957988).
  • PCI: Move pci_ari_enabled() to global header (bsc#968566).
  • RDMA/ucma: Fix AB-BA deadlock (bsc#963998).
  • Restore kabi after lock-owner change (bnc#968141).
  • rpm/modprobe-xen.conf: Revert comment change to allow parallel install
    (bsc#957986). This reverts commit
    855c7ce885fd412ce2a25ccc12a46e565c83f235.
  • s390/dasd: prevent incorrect length error under z/VM after PAV changes
    (bnc#968500, LTC#136670).
  • s390/pageattr: Do a single TLB flush for change_page_attr (bsc#940413).
  • s390/pci: add extra padding to function measurement block (bnc#968500,
    LTC#139445).
  • s390/pci_dma: fix DMA table corruption with > 4 TB main memory
    (bnc#968500, LTC#139401).
  • s390/pci_dma: handle dma table failures (bnc#968500, LTC#139442).
  • s390/pci_dma: improve debugging of errors during dma map (bnc#968500,
    LTC#139442).
  • s390/pci_dma: unify label of invalid translation table entries
    (bnc#968500, LTC#139442).
  • s390/pci: enforce fmb page boundary rule (bnc#968500, LTC#139445).
  • s390/pci: extract software counters from fmb (bnc#968500, LTC#139445).
  • s390/pci: remove pdev pointer from arch data (bnc#968500, LTC#139444).
  • s390/spinlock: avoid yield to non existent cpu (bnc#968500, LTC#141106).
  • scsi_dh_alua: Do not block request queue if workqueue is active
    (bsc#960458).
  • SCSI: Increase REPORT_LUNS timeout (bsc#971989).
  • SCSI mpt2sas: Rearrange the the code so that the completion queues are
    initialized prior to sending the request to controller firmware
    (bsc#967863).
  • skb: Add inline helper for getting the skb end offset from head
    (bsc#956852).
  • tcp: avoid order-1 allocations on wifi and tx path (bsc#956852).
  • tcp: fix skb_availroom() (bsc#956852).
  • Tidy series.conf, p5 Only one last patch which can be moved easily.
    There are some more x86-related things left at the end but moving them
    won’t be that trivial.
  • Update
    patches.drivers/nvme-0265-fix-max_segments-integer-truncation.patch
    (bsc#979419). Fix reference.
  • Update
    patches.fixes/bnx2x-Alloc-4k-fragment-for-each-rx-ring-buffer-elem.patch
    (bsc#953369 bsc#975358).
  • Update PCI VPD size patch to upstream: - PCI: Determine actual VPD size
    on first access (bsc#971729). - PCI: Update VPD definitions (bsc#971729).
  • USB: usbip: fix potential out-of-bounds write (bnc#975945).
  • veth: do not modify ip_summed (bsc#969149).
  • vgaarb: Add more context to error messages (bsc#976868).
  • virtio_scsi: Implement eh_timed_out callback (bsc#936530).
  • vmxnet3: set carrier state properly on probe (bsc#972363).
  • vmxnet3: set netdev parant device before calling netdev_info
    (bsc#972363).
  • x86, kvm: fix kvm’s usage of kernel_fpu_begin/end() (bsc#961518).
  • x86, kvm: use kernel_fpu_begin/end() in kvm_load/put_guest_fpu()
    (bsc#961518).
  • xfrm: do not segment UFO packets (bsc#946122).
  • xfs: fix sgid inheritance for subdirectories inheriting default acls
    [V3] (bsc#965860).
  • xhci: Workaround to get Intel xHCI reset working more reliably
    (bnc#898592).

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