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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2019.4349 Linux kernel KVM subsystem vulnerability CVE-2019-6974 18 November 2019 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: F5 BIG-IP products Publisher: F5 Networks Operating System: Network Appliance Impact/Access: Increased Privileges -- Remote/Unauthenticated Denial of Service -- Remote/Unauthenticated Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2019-6974 Reference: ESB-2019.1800 ESB-2019.1793 ESB-2019.1389 ESB-2019.1387 ESB-2019.1127 Original Bulletin: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K11186236 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- K11186236:Linux kernel KVM subsystem vulnerability CVE-2019-6974 Security Advisory Original Publication Date: 20 Apr, 2019 Latest Publication Date: 15 Nov, 2019 Security Advisory Description In the Linux kernel before 4.20.8, kvm_ioctl_create_device in virt/kvm/ kvm_main.c mishandles reference counting because of a race condition, leading to a use-after-free. (CVE-2019-6974) Impact BIG-IP An attacker may use this vulnerability to cause a vCMP guest to crash, resulting in a denial-of-service or gain privileged access to the vCMP hypervisor host system. This vulnerability affects only hardware platforms that are vCMP-capable and are provisioned for vCMP. For a list of vCMP capable hardware platforms, refer to K14088: vCMP host and compatible guest version matrix. BIG-IQ, Enterprise Manager, F5 iWorkflow, Traffix SDC There is no impact; these F5 products are not affected by this vulnerability. Security Advisory Status F5 Product Development has assigned ID 769589 (BIG-IP) to this vulnerability. Additionally, BIG-IP iHealth may list Heuristic H11186236 on the Diagnostics > Identified > High page. To determine if your product and version have been evaluated for this vulnerability, refer to the Applies to (see versions) box. To determine if your release is known to be vulnerable, the components or features that are affected by the vulnerability, and for information about releases or hotfixes that address the vulnerability, refer to the following table. For more information about security advisory versioning, refer to K51812227: Understanding Security Advisory versioning. +-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+ | | |Versions |Fixes | |CVSSv3|Vulnerable| |Product |Branch|known to |introduced|Severity |score^|component | | | |be |in | |1 |or feature| | | |vulnerable| | | | | +-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+ | |14.x |14.0.0 - |None | | | | | | |14.1.0 | | | | | |BIG-IP (LTM, AAM, +------+----------+----------+ | | | |AFM, Analytics, |13.x |13.0.0 - |13.1.3.2 | | | | |APM, ASM, DNS, Edge| |13.1.3 | | | |vCMP guest| |Gateway, FPS, GTM, +------+----------+----------+High |7.8 |and host | |Link Controller, |12.x |None |Not | | | | |PEM, | | |applicable| | | | |WebAccelerator) +------+----------+----------+ | | | | |11.x |None |Not | | | | | | | |applicable| | | | +-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+ |Enterprise Manager |3.x |None |Not |Not |None |None | | | | |applicable|vulnerable| | | +-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+ | |6.x |None |Not | | | | |BIG-IQ Centralized | | |applicable|Not | | | |Management +------+----------+----------+vulnerable|None |None | | |5.x |None |Not | | | | | | | |applicable| | | | +-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+ |F5 iWorkflow |2.x |None |Not |Not |None |None | | | | |applicable|vulnerable| | | +-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+ |Traffix SDC |5.x |None |Not |Not |None |None | | | | |applicable|vulnerable| | | +-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+ ^1The CVSSv3 score link takes you to a resource outside of AskF5, and it is possible that the document may be removed without our knowledge. Security Advisory Recommended Actions If you are running a version listed in the Versions known to be vulnerable column, you can eliminate this vulnerability by upgrading to a version listed in the Fixes introduced in column. If the table lists only an older version than what you are currently running, or does not list a non-vulnerable version, then no upgrade candidate currently exists. Mitigation To mitigate this vulnerability, you should restrict privileged access for affected systems to trusted users. For more information, refer to K13092: Overview of securing access to the BIG-IP system. 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