Security update for the Linux Kernel
Announcement ID: | SUSE-SU-2016:1937-1 |
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An update that solves 24 vulnerabilities and has 76 security fixes can now be installed.
Description:
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 RT kernel was updated to 3.12.61 to receive various security and bugfixes.
Main feature additions: - Improved support for Clustered File System (CephFS, fate#318586).
The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2014-9717: fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel processes MNT_DETACH umount2 system calls without verifying that the MNT_LOCKED flag is unset, which allowed local users to bypass intended access restrictions and navigate to filesystem locations beneath a mount by calling umount2 within a user namespace (bnc#928547). - CVE-2014-9904: The snd_compress_check_input function in sound/core/compress_offload.c in the ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly check for an integer overflow, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (insufficient memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted SNDRV_COMPRESS_SET_PARAMS ioctl call (bnc#986811). - CVE-2015-7833: The usbvision driver in the Linux kernel allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via a nonzero bInterfaceNumber value in a USB device descriptor (bnc#950998). - CVE-2015-8539: The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (BUG) via crafted keyctl commands that negatively instantiate a key, related to security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c, security/keys/trusted.c, and security/keys/user_defined.c (bnc#958463). - CVE-2015-8551: The PCI backend driver in Xen, when running on an x86 system, allowed local guest administrators to hit BUG conditions and cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) by leveraging a system with access to a passed-through MSI or MSI-X capable physical PCI device and a crafted sequence of XEN_PCI_OP_* operations, aka "Linux pciback missing sanity checks (bnc#957990). - CVE-2015-8552: The PCI backend driver in Xen, when running on an x86 system, allowed local guest administrators to generate a continuous stream of WARN messages and cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by leveraging a system with access to a passed-through MSI or MSI-X capable physical PCI device and XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msi operations, aka "Linux pciback missing sanity checks (bnc#957990). - CVE-2015-8845: The tm_reclaim_thread function in arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c in the Linux kernel on powerpc platforms did not ensure that TM suspend mode exists before proceeding with a tm_reclaim call, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (TM Bad Thing exception and panic) via a crafted application (bnc#975533). - CVE-2016-0758: Integer overflow in lib/asn1_decoder.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to gain privileges via crafted ASN.1 data (bnc#979867). - CVE-2016-1583: The ecryptfs_privileged_open function in fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (stack memory consumption) via vectors involving crafted mmap calls for /proc pathnames, leading to recursive pagefault handling (bnc#983143). - 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-2016-2847: 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-2016-3672: The arch_pick_mmap_layout function in arch/x86/mm/mmap.c in the Linux kernel did not properly randomize the legacy base address, which made it easier for local users to defeat the intended restrictions on the ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE flag, and bypass the ASLR protection mechanism for a setuid or setgid program, by disabling stack-consumption resource limits (bnc#974308). - CVE-2016-3707: The icmp_check_sysrq function in net/ipv4/icmp.c in the kernel.org projects/rt patches for the Linux kernel allowed remote attackers to execute SysRq commands via crafted ICMP Echo Request packets, as demonstrated by a brute-force attack to discover a cookie, or an attack that occurs after reading the local icmp_echo_sysrq file (bnc#980246). - CVE-2016-4470: The key_reject_and_link function in security/keys/key.c in the Linux kernel did not ensure that a certain data structure is initialized, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via vectors involving a crafted keyctl request2 command (bnc#984755). - 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-2016-4486: 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-2016-4565: 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-2016-4569: 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-2016-4578: 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-2016-4805: 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-2016-4997: The compat IPT_SO_SET_REPLACE setsockopt implementation in the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) by leveraging in-container root access to provide a crafted offset value that triggers an unintended decrement (bnc#986362). - CVE-2016-5244: The rds_inc_info_copy function in net/rds/recv.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain structure member, which allowed remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading an RDS message (bnc#983213). - CVE-2016-5828: The start_thread function in arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c in the Linux kernel on powerpc platforms mishandled transactional state, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (invalid process state or TM Bad Thing exception, and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by starting and suspending a transaction before an exec system call (bnc#986569). - CVE-2016-5829: Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the hiddev_ioctl_usage function in drivers/hid/usbhid/hiddev.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted (1) HIDIOCGUSAGES or (2) HIDIOCSUSAGES ioctl call (bnc#986572).
The following non-security bugs were fixed: - ALSA: hrtimer: Handle start/stop more properly (bsc#973378). - Add wait_event_cmd() (bsc#953048). - Btrfs: be more precise on errors when getting an inode from disk (bsc#981038). - Btrfs: do not collect ordered extents when logging that inode exists (bsc#977685). - Btrfs: do not return EBUSY on concurrent subvolume mounts (bsc#951844). - Btrfs: do not use src fd for printk (bsc#980348). - Btrfs: fix empty symlink after creating symlink and fsync parent dir (bsc#977685). - Btrfs: fix file loss on log replay after renaming a file and fsync (bsc#977685). - Btrfs: fix file/data loss caused by fsync after rename and new inode (bsc#977685). - Btrfs: fix for incorrect directory entries after fsync log replay (bsc#957805, bsc#977685). - Btrfs: fix race between fsync and lockless direct IO writes (bsc#977685). - Btrfs: fix unreplayable log after snapshot delete + parent dir fsync (bsc#977685). - Btrfs: improve performance on fsync against new inode after rename/unlink (bsc#981038). - Btrfs: qgroup: Fix qgroup accounting when creating snapshot (bsc#972933). - Btrfs: serialize subvolume mounts with potentially mismatching rw flags (bsc#951844). - CacheFiles: Fix incorrect test for in-memory object collision (bsc#971049). - CacheFiles: Handle object being killed before being set up (bsc#971049). - EDAC, sb_edac: Add support for duplicate device IDs (bsc#979521). - EDAC, sb_edac: Fix TAD presence check for sbridge_mci_bind_devs() (bsc#979521). - EDAC, sb_edac: Fix rank lookup on Broadwell (bsc#979521). - EDAC/sb_edac: Fix computation of channel address (bsc#979521). - EDAC: Correct channel count limit (bsc#979521). - EDAC: Remove arbitrary limit on number of channels (bsc#979521). - EDAC: Use static attribute groups for managing sysfs entries (bsc#979521). - FS-Cache: Add missing initialization of ret in cachefiles_write_page() (bsc#971049). - FS-Cache: Count culled objects and objects rejected due to lack of space (bsc#971049). - FS-Cache: Fix cancellation of in-progress operation (bsc#971049). - FS-Cache: Handle a new operation submitted against a killed object (bsc#971049). - FS-Cache: Move fscache_report_unexpected_submission() to make it more available (bsc#971049). - FS-Cache: Out of line fscache_operation_init() (bsc#971049). - FS-Cache: Permit fscache_cancel_op() to cancel in-progress operations too (bsc#971049). - FS-Cache: Put an aborted initialised op so that it is accounted correctly (bsc#971049). - FS-Cache: Reduce cookie ref count if submit fails (bsc#971049). - FS-Cache: Synchronise object death state change vs operation submission (bsc#971049). - FS-Cache: The operation cancellation method needs calling in more places (bsc#971049). - FS-Cache: Timeout for releasepage() (bsc#971049). - FS-Cache: When submitting an op, cancel it if the target object is dying (bsc#971049). - FS-Cache: fscache_object_is_dead() has wrong logic, kill it (bsc#971049). - Fix cifs_uniqueid_to_ino_t() function for s390x (bsc#944309) - Fix kabi issue (bsc#971049). - Input: i8042 - lower log level for "no controller" message (bsc#945345). - KVM: x86: expose invariant tsc cpuid bit (v2) (bsc#971770). - MM: increase safety margin provided by PF_LESS_THROTTLE (bsc#956491). - NVMe: Unify controller probe and resume (bsc#979347). - NVMe: init nvme queue before enabling irq (bsc#662458). - PCI/AER: Clear error status registers during enumeration and restore (bsc#985978). - Refresh patches.xen/xen-netback-coalesce: Restore copying of SKBs with head exceeding page size (bsc#978469). - Revert "scsi: fix soft lockup in scsi_remove_target() on module removal" (bsc#970609). - SCSI: Increase REPORT_LUNS timeout (bsc#982282). - USB: xhci: Add broken streams quirk for Frescologic device id 1009 (bnc#982698). - Update patches.drivers/0001-nvme-fix-max_segments-integer-truncation.patch (bsc#979419). Fix reference. - Update patches.drivers/nvme-0106-init-nvme-queue-before-enabling-irq.patch (bsc#962742). Fix incorrect bugzilla referece. - Update patches.kernel.org/patch-3.12.55-56 references (add bsc#973570). - Use mainline variant of hyperv KVP IP failover patch (bnc#978527) - VSOCK: Fix lockdep issue (bsc#977417). - VSOCK: sock_put wasn't safe to call in interrupt context (bsc#977417). - Vmxnet3: set CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY for IPv6 packets (bsc#976739). - base: make module_create_drivers_dir race-free (bnc#983977). - block: do not check request size in blk_cloned_rq_check_limits() (bsc#972124). - cachefiles: perform test on s_blocksize when opening cache file (bsc#971049). - cdc_ncm: workaround for EM7455 "silent" data interface (bnc#988552). - ceph fscache: Introduce a routine for uncaching single no data page from fscache. - ceph fscache: Uncaching no data page from fscache in readpage(). - ceph: Asynchronous IO support. - ceph: Avoid to propagate the invalid page point. - ceph: Clean up if error occurred in finish_read(). - ceph: EIO all operations after forced umount. - ceph: Implement writev/pwritev for sync operation. - ceph: Remove racey watch/notify event infrastructure (bsc#964727) - ceph: Remove racey watch/notify event infrastructure (bsc#964727) - ceph: add acl for cephfs. - ceph: add acl, noacl options for cephfs mount. - ceph: add get_name() NFS export callback. - ceph: add get_parent() NFS export callback. - ceph: add imported caps when handling cap export message. - ceph: add inline data to pagecache. - ceph: add missing init_acl() for mkdir() and atomic_open(). - ceph: add open export target session helper. - ceph: add request to i_unsafe_dirops when getting unsafe reply. - ceph: additional debugfs output. - ceph: always re-send cap flushes when MDS recovers. - ceph: avoid block operation when !TASK_RUNNING (ceph_get_caps). - ceph: avoid block operation when !TASK_RUNNING (ceph_mdsc_close_sessions). - ceph: avoid block operation when !TASK_RUNNING (ceph_mdsc_sync). - ceph: avoid releasing caps that are being used. - ceph: avoid sending unnessesary FLUSHSNAP message. - ceph: avoid useless ceph_get_dentry_parent_inode() in ceph_rename(). - ceph: cast PAGE_SIZE to size_t in ceph_sync_write(). - ceph: ceph_frag_contains_value can be boolean. - ceph: ceph_get_parent() can be static. - ceph: check OSD caps before read/write. - ceph: check buffer size in ceph_vxattrcb_layout(). - ceph: check caps in filemap_fault and page_mkwrite. - ceph: check directory's completeness before emitting directory entry. - ceph: check inode caps in ceph_d_revalidate. - ceph: check unsupported fallocate mode. - ceph: check zero length in ceph_sync_read(). - ceph: checking for IS_ERR instead of NULL. - ceph: cleanup unsafe requests when reconnecting is denied. - ceph: cleanup use of ceph_msg_get. - ceph: clear directory's completeness when creating file. - ceph: convert inline data to normal data before data write. - ceph: do not assume r_old_dentry[dir] always set together. - ceph: do not chain inode updates to parent fsync. - ceph: do not grabs open file reference for aborted request. - ceph: do not include ceph.{file,dir}.layout vxattr in listxattr(). - ceph: do not include used caps in cap_wanted. - ceph: do not invalidate page cache when inode is no longer used. - ceph: do not mark dirty caps when there is no auth cap. - ceph: do not pre-allocate space for cap release messages. - ceph: do not set r_old_dentry_dir on link(). - ceph: do not trim auth cap when there are cap snaps. - ceph: do not zero i_wrbuffer_ref when reconnecting is denied. - ceph: drop cap releases in requests composed before cap reconnect. - ceph: drop extra open file reference in ceph_atomic_open(). - ceph: drop unconnected inodes. - ceph: exclude setfilelock requests when calculating oldest tid. - ceph: export ceph_session_state_name function. - ceph: fetch inline data when getting Fcr cap refs. - ceph: fix __dcache_readdir(). - ceph: fix a comment typo. - ceph: fix append mode write. - ceph: fix atomic_open snapdir. - ceph: fix bool assignments. - ceph: fix cache revoke race. - ceph: fix ceph_dir_llseek(). - ceph: fix ceph_fh_to_parent(). - ceph: fix ceph_removexattr(). - ceph: fix ceph_set_acl(). - ceph: fix ceph_writepages_start(). - ceph: fix dcache/nocache mount option. - ceph: fix dentry leaks. - ceph: fix directory fsync. - ceph: fix divide-by-zero in __validate_layout(). - ceph: fix double page_unlock() in page_mkwrite(). - ceph: fix dout() compile warnings in ceph_filemap_fault(). - ceph: fix file lock interruption. - ceph: fix flush tid comparision. - ceph: fix flushing caps. - ceph: fix llistxattr on symlink. - ceph: fix message length computation. - ceph: fix mksnap crash. - ceph: fix null pointer dereference in send_mds_reconnect(). - ceph: fix pr_fmt() redefinition. - ceph: fix queuing inode to mdsdir's snaprealm. - ceph: fix reading inline data when i_size greater than PAGE_SIZE. - ceph: fix request time stamp encoding. - ceph: fix reset_readdir(). - ceph: fix setting empty extended attribute. - ceph: fix sizeof(struct tYpO ) typo. - ceph: fix snap context leak in error path. - ceph: fix trim caps. - ceph: fix uninline data function. - ceph: flush cap release queue when trimming session caps. - ceph: flush inline version. - ceph: forbid mandatory file lock. - ceph: fscache: Update object store limit after file writing. - ceph: fscache: Wait for completion of object initialization. - ceph: fscache: add an interface to synchronize object store limit. - ceph: get inode size for each append write. - ceph: handle -ESTALE reply. - ceph: handle SESSION_FORCE_RO message. - ceph: handle cap export race in try_flush_caps(). - ceph: handle cap import atomically. - ceph: handle frag mismatch between readdir request and reply. - ceph: handle race between cap reconnect and cap release. - ceph: handle session flush message. - ceph: hold on to exclusive caps on complete directories. - ceph: implement readv/preadv for sync operation. - ceph: improve readahead for file holes. - ceph: improve reference tracking for snaprealm. - ceph: include time stamp in every MDS request. - ceph: include time stamp in replayed MDS requests. - ceph: initial CEPH_FEATURE_FS_FILE_LAYOUT_V2 support. - ce