SUSE-SU-2021:3929-1

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

• Unprivileged BPF has been disabled by default to reduce attack surface as too many security issues have happened in the past (jsc#SLE-22573)

  You can reenable via systemctl setting /proc/sys/kernel/unprivilegedbpfdisabled to 0. (kernel.unprivilegedbpfdisabled = 0)

• CVE-2017-5753: Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may have allowed unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis (bnc#1068032). Additional spectrev1 fixes were added to the eBPF code.

• CVE-2018-13405: The inodeinitowner function in fs/inode.c allowed local users to create files with an unintended group ownership, in a scenario where a directory is SGID to a certain group and is writable by a user who is not a member of that group. Here, the non-member can trigger creation of a plain file whose group ownership is that group. The intended behavior was that the non-member can trigger creation of a directory (but not a plain file) whose group ownership is that group. The non-member can escalate privileges by making the plain file executable and SGID (bnc#1087082 bnc#1100416 bnc#1129735).
• CVE-2018-16882: A use-after-free issue was found in the way the KVM hypervisor processed posted interrupts when nested(=1) virtualization is enabled. In nestedgetvmcs12pages(), in case of an error while processing posted interrupt address, it unmaps the 'pidescpage' without resetting 'pidesc' descriptor address, which is later used in pitestandclearon(). A guest user/process could use this flaw to crash the host kernel resulting in DoS or potentially gain privileged access to a system. Kernel versions and are vulnerable (bnc#1119934).
• CVE-2020-0429: In l2tpsessiondelete and related functions of l2tp_core.c, there is possible memory corruption due to a use after free. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation (bnc#1176724).
• CVE-2020-12655: An issue was discovered in xfsagfverify in fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c in the Linux kernel Attackers may trigger a sync of excessive duration via an XFS v5 image with crafted metadata, aka CID-d0c7feaf8767 (bnc#1171217).
• CVE-2020-14305: An out-of-bounds memory write flaw was found in how the Linux kernel’s Voice Over IP H.323 connection tracking functionality handled connections on ipv6 port 1720. This flaw allowed an unauthenticated remote user to crash the system, causing a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability (bnc#1173346).
• CVE-2020-3702: Specifically timed and handcrafted traffic can cause internal errors in a WLAN device that lead to improper layer 2 Wi-Fi encryption with a consequent possibility of information disclosure over the air for a discrete set of traffic (bnc#1191193).
• CVE-2021-20265: A flaw was found in the way memory resources were freed in the unixstreamrecvmsg function in the Linux kernel when a signal was pending. This flaw allowed an unprivileged local user to crash the system by exhausting available memory. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability (bnc#1183089).
• CVE-2021-31916: An out-of-bounds (OOB) memory write flaw was found in listdevices in drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c in the Multi-device driver module in the Linux kernel A bound check failure allowed an attacker with special user (CAPSYS_ADMIN) privilege to gain access to out-of-bounds memory leading to a system crash or a leak of internal kernel information. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability (bnc#1192781).
• CVE-2021-33033: The Linux kernel has a use-after-free in cipsov4genopt in net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c because the CIPSO and CALIPSO refcounting for the DOI definitions is mishandled, aka CID-ad5d07f4a9cd. This leads to writing an arbitrary value (bnc#1186109 bnc#1186390 bnc#1188876).
• CVE-2021-34556: In the Linux kernel through 5.13.7, an unprivileged BPF program can obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a Speculative Store Bypass side-channel attack because the protection mechanism neglects the possibility of uninitialized memory locations on the BPF stack (bnc#1188983).
• CVE-2021-34981: Fixed file refcounting in cmtp when cmtpattachdevice fails (bsc#1191961).
• CVE-2021-3542: Fixed heap buffer overflow in firedtv driver (bsc#1186063).
• CVE-2021-35477: In the Linux kernel through 5.13.7, an unprivileged BPF program can obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a Speculative Store Bypass side-channel attack because a certain preempting store operation did not necessarily occur before a store operation that has an attacker-controlled value (bnc#1188985).
• CVE-2021-3640: Fixed a Use-After-Free vulnerability in function scosocksendmsg() in the bluetooth stack (bsc#1188172).
• CVE-2021-3653: A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting SVM nested virtualization. The flaw occurs when processing the VMCB (virtual machine control block) provided by the L1 guest to spawn/handle a nested guest (L2). Due to improper validation of the 'int_ctl' field, this issue could allow a malicious L1 to enable AVIC support (Advanced Virtual Interrupt Controller) for the L2 guest. As a result, the L2 guest would be allowed to read/write physical pages of the host, resulting in a crash of the entire system, leak of sensitive data or potential guest-to-host escape. (bnc#1189399).
• CVE-2021-3655: A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel in versions prior to v5.14-rc1. Missing size validations on inbound SCTP packets may have allowed the kernel to read uninitialized memory (bnc#1188563).
• CVE-2021-3659: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference in llseckeyalloc() in net/mac802154/llsec.c (bsc#1188876).
• CVE-2021-3679: A lack of CPU resource in the tracing module functionality was found in the way user uses trace ring buffer in a specific way. Only privileged local users (with CAPSYSADMIN capability) could use this flaw to starve the resources causing denial of service (bnc#1189057).
• CVE-2021-37159: hsofreenetdevice in drivers/net/usb/hso.c in the Linux kernel calls unregisternetdev without checking for the NETREG_REGISTERED state, leading to a use-after-free and a double free (bnc#1188601).
• CVE-2021-3715: Fixed a use-after-free in route4change() in net/sched/clsroute.c (bsc#1190349).
• CVE-2021-3732: Mounting overlayfs inside an unprivileged user namespace can reveal files (bsc#1189706).
• CVE-2021-3752: Fixed a use after free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's bluetooth module. (bsc#1190023)
• CVE-2021-3753: Fixed race out-of-bounds in virtual terminal handling (bsc#1190025).
• CVE-2021-37576: arch/powerpc/kvm/book3srtas.c on the powerpc platform allowed KVM guest OS users to cause host OS memory corruption via rtasargs.nargs, aka CID-f62f3c20647e (bnc#1188838 bnc#1190276).
• CVE-2021-3760: Fixed a use-after-free vulnerability with the ndev->rfconninfo object (bsc#1190067).
• CVE-2021-3772: Fixed sctp vtag check in sctpsfootb (bsc#1190351).
• CVE-2021-38160: Data corruption or loss could be triggered by an untrusted device that supplies a buf->len value exceeding the buffer size in drivers/char/virtio_console.c (bsc#1190117)
• CVE-2021-38198: arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h incorrectly computed the access permissions of a shadow page, leading to a missing guest protection page fault (bnc#1189262).
• CVE-2021-38204: drivers/usb/host/max3421-hcd.c allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and panic) by removing a MAX-3421 USB device in certain situations (bnc#1189291).
• CVE-2021-3896: Fixed a array-index-out-bounds in detachcapictr in drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c (bsc#1191958).
• CVE-2021-40490: A race condition was discovered in ext4writeinlinedataend in fs/ext4/inline.c in the ext4 subsystem in the Linux kernel (bnc#1190159)
• CVE-2021-42008: The decodedata function in drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c in the Linux kernel has a slab out-of-bounds write. Input from a process that has the CAPNET_ADMIN capability can lead to root access (bnc#1191315).
• CVE-2021-42739: The firewire subsystem in the Linux kernel has a buffer overflow related to drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-avc.c and drivers/media/firewire/firedtv-ci.c, because avccapmt mishandled bounds checking (bnc#1184673).
• CVE-2021-43389: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel There was an array-index-out-of-bounds flaw in the detachcapictr function in drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c (bnc#1191958).
• • ipv4: make exception cache less predictible (bsc#1191790, CVE-2021-20322).

• Update config files: Add CONFIGBPFUNPRIVDEFAULTOFF is not set
• bpf: Add kconfig knob for disabling unpriv bpf by default (jsc#SLE-22918)
• bpf: Disallow unprivileged bpf by default (jsc#SLE-22918).
• bpf: properly enforce index mask to prevent out-of-bounds speculation (bsc#1098425).
• btrfs: reloc: clear DEADRELOCTREE bit for orphan roots to prevent runaway balance (bsc#1188325).
• btrfs: reloc: fix reloc root leak and NULL pointer dereference (bsc#1188325).
• btrfs: relocation: fix relocroot lifespan and access (bsc#1188325).
• config: disable unprivileged BPF by default (jsc#SLE-22918) Backport of mainline commit 8a03e56b253e ('bpf: Disallow unprivileged bpf by default') only changes kconfig default, used e.g. for 'make oldconfig' when the config option is missing, but does not update our kernel configs used for build. Update also these to make sure unprivileged BPF is really disabled by default.
• kABI: protect struct bpfmap (kabi).
• s390/bpf: Fix 64-bit subtraction of the -0x80000000 constant (bsc#1190601).
• s390/bpf: Fix branch shortening during codegen pass (bsc#1190601).
• s390/bpf: Fix optimizing out zero-extensions (bsc#1190601).
• s390/bpf: Wrap JIT macro parameter usages in parentheses (bsc#1190601).
• s390: bpf: implement jitting of BPFALU | BPFARSH | BPF* (bsc#1190601).
• scsi: sg: add sgremoverequest in sgwrite (bsc#1171420 CVE2020-12770).
• sctp: check asoc peer.asconf_capable before processing asconf (bsc#1190351).
• sctp: fully initialize v4 addr in some functions (bsc#1188563).
• sctp: simplify addr copy (bsc#1188563).