Security update for the Linux Kernel

An update that solves 29 vulnerabilities and has seven security fixes can now be installed.

Description:

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11-SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

• CVE-2019-11135: Aborting an asynchronous TSX operation on Intel CPUs with Transactional Memory support could be used to facilitate sidechannel information leaks out of microarchitectural buffers, similar to the previously described "Microarchitectural Data Sampling" attack.

The Linux kernel was supplemented with the option to disable TSX operation altogether (requiring CPU Microcode updates on older systems) and better flushing of microarchitectural buffers (VERW).

The set of options available is described in our TID at https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7023735

• CVE-2018-12207: Untrusted virtual machines on Intel CPUs could exploit a race condition in the Instruction Fetch Unit of the Intel CPU to cause a Machine Exception during Page Size Change, causing the CPU core to be non-functional.

The Linux Kernel kvm hypervisor was adjusted to avoid page size changes in executable pages by splitting / merging huge pages into small pages as needed. More information can be found on https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7024251

• CVE-2019-16233: drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c did not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. (bsc#1150457).
• CVE-2019-10220: Added sanity checks on the pathnames passed to the user space. (bsc#1144903).
• CVE-2019-16234: iwlwifi pcie driver did not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. (bsc#1150452).
• CVE-2019-16232: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference in the Marwell libertas driver (bsc#1150465).
• CVE-2019-17052: ax25_create in the AF_AX25 network module in the Linux kernel did not enforce CAP_NET_RAW, which meant that unprivileged users could create a raw socket, aka CID-0614e2b73768. (bnc#1152779)
• CVE-2019-17055: base_sock_create in the AF_ISDN network module in the Linux kernel did not enforce CAP_NET_RAW, which means that unprivileged users can create a raw socket, aka CID-b91ee4aa2a21. (bnc#1152782)
• CVE-2019-17054: atalk_create in the AF_APPLETALK network module in the Linux kernel did not enforce CAP_NET_RAW, which means that unprivileged users can create a raw socket, aka CID-6cc03e8aa36c. (bnc#1152786)
• CVE-2019-17133: cfg80211 wireless extension did not reject a long SSID IE, leading to a Buffer Overflow (bsc#1153158).
• CVE-2019-17053: ieee802154_create in the AF_IEEE802154 network module in the Linux kernel did not enforce CAP_NET_RAW, which means that unprivileged users could create a raw socket, aka CID-e69dbd4619e7. (bnc#1152789)
• CVE-2019-16413: The 9p filesystem did not protect i_size_write() properly, which caused an i_size_read() infinite loop and denial of service on SMP systems. (bnc#1151347)
• CVE-2019-15291: There was a NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device in the flexcop_usb_probe function. (bnc#1146540)
• CVE-2019-15807: There was a memory leak in the SAS expander driver when SAS expander discovery fails. This could cause a denial of service. (bnc#1148938)
• CVE-2019-14821: An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the way Linux the kernel's KVM hypervisor implemented the Coalesced MMIO write operation. It operated on an MMIO ring buffer 'struct kvm_coalesced_mmio' object, wherein write indices value could be supplied by a host user-space process. An unprivileged host user or process with access to '/dev/kvm' device could use this flaw to crash the host kernel, resulting in a denial of service or potentially escalating privileges on the system. (bnc#1151350)
• CVE-2019-15505: The Linux kernel had an out-of-bounds read via crafted USB device traffic (which may have been remote via usbip or usbredir). (bnc#1147122)
• CVE-2019-14835: A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Linux kernel's vhost functionality that translates virtqueue buffers to IOVs, logged the buffer descriptors during migration