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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2018.3020 linux security update 5 October 2018 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: linux kernel Publisher: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 8 Impact/Access: Root Compromise -- Existing Account Access Privileged Data -- Existing Account Denial of Service -- Remote/Unauthenticated Unauthorised Access -- Remote/Unauthenticated Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2018-17182 CVE-2018-16658 CVE-2018-16276 CVE-2018-15594 CVE-2018-15572 CVE-2018-14734 CVE-2018-14678 CVE-2018-14634 CVE-2018-14633 CVE-2018-14617 CVE-2018-14609 CVE-2018-13406 CVE-2018-13405 CVE-2018-13094 CVE-2018-13093 CVE-2018-10902 CVE-2018-10883 CVE-2018-10882 CVE-2018-10881 CVE-2018-10880 CVE-2018-10879 CVE-2018-10878 CVE-2018-10877 CVE-2018-10876 CVE-2018-10323 CVE-2018-10021 CVE-2018-9516 CVE-2018-9363 CVE-2018-7755 CVE-2018-6555 CVE-2018-6554 CVE-2018-5391 CVE-2018-3646 CVE-2018-3639 CVE-2018-3620 CVE-2018-1627 CVE-2018-1467 CVE-2018-1460 CVE-2018-1309 CVE-2018-1088 CVE-2018-1087 Reference: ASB-2018.0204 ESB-2018.2981 ESB-2018.2974 ESB-2018.2887 Original Bulletin: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00005.html - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- Package : linux Version : 3.16.59-1 CVE ID : CVE-2018-3620 CVE-2018-3639 CVE-2018-5391 CVE-2018-6554 CVE-2018-6555 CVE-2018-7755 CVE-2018-9363 CVE-2018-9516 CVE-2018-10021 CVE-2018-10323 CVE-2018-10876 CVE-2018-10877 CVE-2018-10878 CVE-2018-10879 CVE-2018-10880 CVE-2018-10881 CVE-2018-10882 CVE-2018-10883 CVE-2018-10902 CVE-2018-13093 CVE-2018-13094 CVE-2018-13405 CVE-2018-13406 CVE-2018-14609 CVE-2018-14617 CVE-2018-14633 CVE-2018-14634 CVE-2018-14678 CVE-2018-14734 CVE-2018-15572 CVE-2018-15594 CVE-2018-16276 CVE-2018-16658 CVE-2018-17182 Debian Bug : 898137 Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. CVE-2018-3620 Multiple researchers have discovered a vulnerability in the way the Intel processor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions in combination with handling of page-faults. This flaw could allow an attacker controlling an unprivileged process to read memory from arbitrary (non-user controlled) addresses, including from the kernel and all other processes running on the system or cross guest/host boundaries to read host memory. This issue covers only attackers running normal processes. A related issue (CVE-2018-3646) exists with KVM guests, and is not yet fixed. CVE-2018-3639 Multiple researchers have discovered that Speculative Store Bypass (SSB), a feature implemented in many processors, could be used to read sensitive information from another context. In particular, code in a software sandbox may be able to read sensitive information from outside the sandbox. This issue is also known as Spectre variant 4. This update allows the issue to be mitigated on some x86 processors by disabling SSB. This requires an update to the processor's microcode, which is non-free. DLA 1446-1 and DLA 1506-1 provided this for some Intel processors. For other processors, it may be included in an update to the system BIOS or UEFI firmware, or in a future update to the intel-microcode or amd64-microcode packages. Disabling SSB can reduce performance significantly, so by default it is only done in tasks that use the seccomp feature. Applications that require this mitigation should request it explicitly through the prctl() system call. Users can control where the mitigation is enabled with the spec_store_bypass_disable kernel parameter. CVE-2018-5391 (FragmentSmack) Juha-Matti Tilli discovered a flaw in the way the Linux kernel handled reassembly of fragmented IPv4 and IPv6 packets. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to trigger time and calculation expensive fragment reassembly algorithms by sending specially crafted packets, leading to remote denial of service. This is mitigated by reducing the default limits on memory usage for incomplete fragmented packets. The same mitigation can be achieved without the need to reboot, by setting the sysctls: net.ipv4.ipfrag_low_thresh =3D 196608 net.ipv6.ip6frag_low_thresh =3D 196608 net.ipv4.ipfrag_high_thresh =3D 262144 net.ipv6.ip6frag_high_thresh =3D 262144 The default values may still be increased by local configuration if necessary. CVE-2018-6554 A memory leak in the irda_bind function in the irda subsystem was discovered. A local user can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of service (memory consumption). CVE-2018-6555 A flaw was discovered in the irda_setsockopt function in the irda subsystem, allowing a local user to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash). CVE-2018-7755 Brian Belleville discovered a flaw in the fd_locked_ioctl function in the floppy driver in the Linux kernel. The floppy driver copies a kernel pointer to user memory in response to the FDGETPRM ioctl. A local user with access to a floppy drive device can take advantage of this flaw to discover the location kernel code and data. CVE-2018-9363 It was discovered that the Bluetooth HIDP implementation did not correctly check the length of received report messages. A paired HIDP device could use this to cause a buffer overflow, leading to denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or potentially remote code execution. CVE-2018-9516 It was discovered that the HID events interface in debugfs did not correctly limit the length of copies to user buffers. A local user with access to these files could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation. However, by default debugfs is only accessible by the root user. CVE-2018-10021 A physically present attacker who unplugs a SAS cable can cause a denial of service (memory leak and WARN). CVE-2018-10323, CVE-2018-13093, CVE-2018-13094 Wen Xu from SSLab at Gatech reported several NULL pointer dereference flaws that may be triggered when mounting and operating a crafted XFS volume. An attacker able to mount arbitrary XFS volumes could use this to cause a denial of service (crash). CVE-2018-10876, CVE-2018-10877, CVE-2018-10878, CVE-2018-10879, CVE-2018-10880, CVE-2018-10881, CVE-2018-10882, CVE-2018-10883 Wen Xu from SSLab at Gatech reported that crafted ext4 volumes could trigger a crash or memory corruption. An attacker able to mount arbitrary ext4 volumes could use this for denial of service or possibly for privilege escalation. CVE-2018-10902 It was discovered that the rawmidi kernel driver does not protect against concurrent access which leads to a double-realloc (double free) flaw. A local attacker can take advantage of this issue for privilege escalation. CVE-2018-13405 Jann Horn discovered that the inode_init_owner function in fs/inode.c in the Linux kernel allows local users to create files with an unintended group ownership allowing attackers to escalate privileges by making a plain file executable and SGID. CVE-2018-13406 Dr Silvio Cesare of InfoSect reported a potential integer overflow in the uvesafb driver. A local user with permission to access such a device might be able to use this for denial of service or privilege escalation. CVE-2018-14609 Wen Xu from SSLab at Gatech reported a potential null pointer dereference in the F2FS implementation. An attacker able to mount arbitrary F2FS volumes could use this to cause a denial of service (crash). CVE-2018-14617 Wen Xu from SSLab at Gatech reported a potential null pointer dereference in the HFS+ implementation. An attacker able to mount arbitrary HFS+ volumes could use this to cause a denial of service (crash). CVE-2018-14633 Vincent Pelletier discovered a stack-based buffer overflow flaw in the chap_server_compute_md5() function in the iSCSI target code. An unauthenticated remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of service or possibly to get a non-authorized access to data exported by an iSCSI target. CVE-2018-14634 Qualys reported an integer overflow in the initialisation of the stack for ELF executables, which can cause the stack to overlap the argument or environment strings. A local user may use this to defeat environment variable filtering in setuid programs, leading to privilege escalation. CVE-2018-14678 M. Vefa Bicakci and Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the kernel exit code used on amd64 systems running as Xen PV guests. A local user could use this to cause a denial of service (crash). CVE-2018-14734 A use-after-free bug was discovered in the InfiniBand communication manager. A local user could use this to cause a denial of service (crash or memory corruption) or possible for privilege escalation. CVE-2018-15572 Esmaiel Mohammadian Koruyeh, Khaled Khasawneh, Chengyu Song, and Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, from University of California, Riverside, reported a variant of Spectre variant 2, dubbed SpectreRSB. A local user may be able to use this to read sensitive information from processes owned by other users. CVE-2018-15594 Nadav Amit reported that some indirect function calls used in paravirtualised guests were vulnerable to Spectre variant 2. A local user may be able to use this to read sensitive information from the kernel. CVE-2018-16276 Jann Horn discovered that the yurex driver did not correctly limit the length of copies to user buffers. A local user with access to a yurex device node could use this to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation. CVE-2018-16658 It was discovered that the cdrom driver does not correctly validate the parameter to the CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS ioctl. A user with access to a cdrom device could use this to read sensitive information from the kernel or to cause a denial of service (crash). CVE-2018-17182 Jann Horn discovered that the vmacache_flush_all function mishandles sequence number overflows. A local user can take advantage of this flaw to trigger a use-after-free, causing a denial of service (crash or memory corruption) or privilege escalation. For Debian 8 "Jessie", these problems have been fixed in version 3.16.59-1. This version also includes a fix for bug #898137 and several other fixes included in upstream stable updates. We recommend that you upgrade your linux packages. Since the kernel ABI and binary package names have changed, you will need to use an upgrade command that installs new dependencies, such as "apt upgrade" or "apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs". Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS Ben Hutchings - Debian developer, member of kernel, installer and LTS teams - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEErCspvTSmr92z9o8157/I7JWGEQkFAlu2WpEACgkQ57/I7JWG EQnr5xAAzQ1QN9R/63FZi8OXHyKoAaWBxdBgGGaMpITzm+OVUY20/5nKbGkLITei 8fhDKRvGo7hOsZJMyU5LVu9kmUMjkPhmteRHtDclM8qxcLCnYazH0YKqtdo4R6HL Xpzv54TcvZApcTm1eSDxnSO4EpRlR/SJP91xvk5uHarSw4OwzZyDWVyMHjW0LrmG H7fGe+WHzS0X6iw/QCd6eex52PGp7dSCBbsU1Ddb4rynmNsKKD/JgNwqlr6JmbbR HDO+tBK9qL3RLQwJzcwyXcS4hIU/TOob2z7QeLLEnvFA+cq0g/Y1F2FwQc5qyA1y jl0ONHeGsYFca9F+R2VJxV1KVO3KN0joK8rlqcD3QM53a62yDJHrb6BGLwAm0PqL gjTuimcAMNwZ1uBP6ow8xivC8v7R+KLVYZvcqpjp2A6oJZ1t6xv8Z+6zpgoUqSNs +uGzhWuNjkGYKgHcmG9MOAjZDwKnhwvzE7KNwmWC+fXa7q2wlZPYq/2/I5s6VQRM dp2jELEcTM9gIgX2/sL9ildjV+aA5mUyc633+E/QMqwMQUw3aPcNifrkmrAaHSif 4r0BN6NPU/bD5kavEV/ZtoDEqtYtsBIb97W+4tyD2Egx4neGiFti9nOP1Bd3uymr 2OBY5enC2RmetGms6JThbH9C6YOyghdUddn/gW85PJW2tweUozQ= =K/uH - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - --------------------------END INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- You have received this e-mail bulletin as a result of your organisation's registration with AusCERT. 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