Security update for the Linux Kernel

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:3329-1
Rating: important
References:
Cross-References:
CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2022-40982 ( SUSE ): 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2022-40982 ( NVD ): 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2023-0459 ( SUSE ): 4.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2023-0459 ( NVD ): 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2023-20569 ( SUSE ): 5.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2023-20569 ( NVD ): 4.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2023-3567 ( SUSE ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2023-3567 ( NVD ): 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2023-3609 ( SUSE ): 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2023-3609 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2023-3611 ( SUSE ): 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2023-3611 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2023-3776 ( SUSE ): 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2023-3776 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5

An update that solves seven vulnerabilities and has 13 security fixes can now be installed.

Description:

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 RT kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

  • CVE-2022-40982: Fixed transient execution attack called "Gather Data Sampling" (bsc#1206418).
  • CVE-2023-0459: Fixed information leak in __uaccess_begin_nospec (bsc#1211738).
  • CVE-2023-20569: Fixed side channel attack ‘Inception’ or ‘RAS Poisoning’ (bsc#1213287).
  • CVE-2023-3567: Fixed a use-after-free in vcs_read in drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c (bsc#1213167).
  • CVE-2023-3609: Fixed reference counter leak leading to overflow in net/sched (bsc#1213586).
  • CVE-2023-3611: Fixed an out-of-bounds write in net/sched sch_qfq(bsc#1213585).
  • CVE-2023-3776: Fixed improper refcount update in cls_fw leads to use-after-free (bsc#1213588).

The following non-security bugs were fixed:

  • fix double fget() in vhost_net_set_backend() (git-fixes).
  • nfsv4.1: always send a reclaim_complete after establishing lease (git-fixes).
  • sunrpc: fix uaf in svc_tcp_listen_data_ready() (git-fixes).
  • sunrpc: remove the maximum number of retries in call_bind_status (git-fixes).
  • update suse/s390-dasd-fix-no-record-found-for-raw_track_access (git-fixes bsc#1212266 bsc#1207528).
  • update suse/scsi-zfcp-fix-missing-auto-port-scan-and-thus-missing-target-ports (git-fixes bsc#1202670).
  • block: fix a source code comment in include/uapi/linux/blkzoned.h (git-fixes).
  • kabi fix test
  • kernel-binary.spec.in: remove superfluous %% in supplements fixes: 02b7735e0caf ("rpm/kernel-binary.spec.in: add enhances and supplements tags to in-tree kmps")
  • livepatch: check kzalloc return values (git-fixes).
  • media: videodev2.h: fix struct v4l2_input tuner index comment (git-fixes).
  • net/sched: sch_qfq: refactor parsing of netlink parameters (bsc#1213585).
  • net: skip virtio_net_hdr_set_proto if protocol already set (git-fixes).
  • net: virtio_net_hdr_to_skb: count transport header in ufo (git-fixes).
  • nfsd: fix double fget() bug in __write_ports_addfd() (git-fixes).
  • powerpc/64: update speculation_store_bypass in /proc/<pid>/status (bsc#1188885 ltc#193722 git-fixes).
  • powerpc/security: fix speculation_store_bypass reporting on power10 (bsc#1188885 ltc#193722 git-fixes).
  • rpm/check-for-config-changes: ignore also riscv_isa_ and dynamic_sigframe they depend on config_toolchain_has_.
  • s390/cio: add dev_busid sysfs entry for each subchannel (bsc#1207526).
  • s390/cio: check the subchannel validity for dev_busid (bsc#1207526).
  • s390/cio: introduce io_subchannel_type (bsc#1207526).
  • s390/cpum_sf: adjust sampling interval to avoid hitting sample limits (git-fixes bsc#1213827).
  • s390/maccess: add no dat mode to kernel_write (git-fixes bsc#1213825).
  • s390/numa: move initial setup of node_to_cpumask_map (git-fixes bsc#1213766).
  • scsi: qla2xxx: adjust iocb resource on qpair create (bsc#1213747).
  • scsi: qla2xxx: array index may go out of bound (bsc#1213747).
  • scsi: qla2xxx: avoid fcport pointer dereference (bsc#1213747).
  • scsi: qla2xxx: check valid rport returned by fc_bsg_to_rport() (bsc#1213747).
  • scsi: qla2xxx: correct the index of array (bsc#1213747).
  • scsi: qla2xxx: drop useless list_head (bsc#1213747).
  • scsi: qla2xxx: fix null pointer dereference in target mode (bsc#1213747).
  • scsi: qla2xxx: fix tmf leak through (bsc#1213747).
  • scsi: qla2xxx: fix buffer overrun (bsc#1213747).
  • scsi: qla2xxx: fix command flush during tmf (bsc#1213747).
  • scsi: qla2xxx: fix deletion race condition (bsc#1213747).
  • scsi: qla2xxx: fix end of loop test (bsc#1213747).
  • scsi: qla2xxx: fix erroneous link up failure (bsc#1213747).
  • scsi: qla2xxx: fix error code in qla2x00_start_sp() (bsc#1213747).
  • scsi: qla2xxx: fix potential null pointer dereference (bsc#1213747).
  • scsi: qla2xxx: fix session hang in gnl (bsc#1213747).
  • scsi: qla2xxx: limit tmf to 8 per function (bsc#1213747).
  • scsi: qla2xxx: pointer may be dereferenced (bsc#1213747).
  • scsi: qla2xxx: remove unused nvme_ls_waitq wait queue (bsc#1213747).
  • scsi: qla2xxx: silence a static checker warning (bsc#1213747).
  • scsi: qla2xxx: turn off noisy message log (bsc#1213747).
  • scsi: qla2xxx: update version to 10.02.08.400-k (bsc#1213747).
  • scsi: qla2xxx: update version to 10.02.08.500-k (bsc#1213747).
  • scsi: qla2xxx: fix inconsistent tmf timeout (bsc#1213747).
  • svcrdma: prevent page release when nothing was received (git-fixes).
  • vfio-ccw: prevent quiesce function going into an infinite loop (git-fixes bsc#1213819).
  • vfio-ccw: release any channel program when releasing/removing vfio-ccw mdev (git-fixes bsc#1213823).
  • vhost/test: fix build for vhost test (git-fixes).
  • vhost/vsock: use kvmalloc/kvfree for larger packets (git-fixes).
  • vhost/vsock: do not check owner in vhost_vsock_stop() while releasing (git-fixes).
  • vhost/vsock: fix incorrect used length reported to the guest (git-fixes).
  • vhost/vsock: fix packet delivery order to monitoring devices (git-fixes).
  • vhost/vsock: split packets to send using multiple buffers (git-fixes).
  • vhost: fix the calculation in vhost_overflow() (git-fixes).
  • vhost_net: disable zerocopy by default (git-fixes).
  • vhost_net: fix oob on sendmsg() failure (git-fixes).
  • virtio-balloon: fix managed page counts when migrating pages between zones (git-fixes).
  • virtio-mmio: fix missing put_device() when vm_cmdline_parent registration failed (git-fixes).
  • virtio-net: keep stop() to follow mirror sequence of open() (git-fixes).
  • virtio-pci: remove wrong address verification in vp_del_vqs() (git-fixes).
  • virtio: improve vq->broken access to avoid any compiler optimization (git-fixes).
  • virtio_net: fix error handling in virtnet_restore() (git-fixes).
  • virtio_net: bugfix overflow inside xdp_linearize_page() (git-fixes).
  • virtio_net: fix xdp_rxq_info bug after suspend/resume (git-fixes).
  • virtio_ring: fix querying of maximum dma mapping size for virtio device (git-fixes).
  • vringh: use wiov->used to check for read/write desc order (git-fixes).
  • vringh: fix __vringh_iov() when riov and wiov are different (git-fixes).
  • vsock/virtio: stop workers during the .remove() (git-fixes).
  • vsock/virtio: use rcu to avoid use-after-free on the_virtio_vsock (git-fixes).
  • xen/blkfront: Only check REQ_FUA for writes (git-fixes).

Special Instructions and Notes:

  • Please reboot the system after installing this update.

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RT-12-SP5-2023-3329=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 12 SP5 (x86_64)
    • dlm-kmp-rt-4.12.14-10.138.1
    • dlm-kmp-rt-debuginfo-4.12.14-10.138.1
    • kernel-syms-rt-4.12.14-10.138.1
    • kernel-rt-base-4.12.14-10.138.1
    • kernel-rt-debugsource-4.12.14-10.138.1
    • kernel-rt_debug-devel-debuginfo-4.12.14-10.138.1
    • ocfs2-kmp-rt-4.12.14-10.138.1
    • kernel-rt-base-debuginfo-4.12.14-10.138.1
    • kernel-rt_debug-devel-4.12.14-10.138.1
    • kernel-rt_debug-debugsource-4.12.14-10.138.1
    • kernel-rt-debuginfo-4.12.14-10.138.1
    • kernel-rt_debug-debuginfo-4.12.14-10.138.1
    • gfs2-kmp-rt-debuginfo-4.12.14-10.138.1
    • cluster-md-kmp-rt-4.12.14-10.138.1
    • kernel-rt-devel-debuginfo-4.12.14-10.138.1
    • cluster-md-kmp-rt-debuginfo-4.12.14-10.138.1
    • kernel-rt-devel-4.12.14-10.138.1
    • ocfs2-kmp-rt-debuginfo-4.12.14-10.138.1
    • gfs2-kmp-rt-4.12.14-10.138.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 12 SP5 (noarch)
    • kernel-source-rt-4.12.14-10.138.1
    • kernel-devel-rt-4.12.14-10.138.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 12 SP5 (nosrc x86_64)
    • kernel-rt_debug-4.12.14-10.138.1
    • kernel-rt-4.12.14-10.138.1

References: