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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2016.1183
Important: kernel security and bug fix update
13 May 2016
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: kernel
Publisher: Red Hat
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS/Desktop 7
UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Impact/Access: Root Compromise -- Existing Account
Denial of Service -- Existing Account
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2016-0758
Original Bulletin:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1033.html
Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in products which run on
platforms other than Red Hat. It is recommended that administrators
running kernel check for an updated version of the software for
their operating system.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: kernel security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1033-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1033.html
Issue date: 2016-05-12
CVE Names: CVE-2016-0758
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1. Summary:
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64
3. Description:
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux
operating system.
Security Fix(es):
* A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder
processed certain certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A
local, unprivileged user could use a specially crafted X.509 certificate
DER file to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on
the system. (CVE-2016-0758, Important)
Red Hat would like to thank Philip Pettersson of Samsung for reporting this
issue.
Bug Fix(es):
* Under certain conditions, the migration threads could race with the CPU
hotplug, which could cause a deadlock. A set of patches has been provided
to fix this bug, and the deadlock no longer occurs in the system.
(BZ#1299338)
* A bug in the code that cleans up revoked delegations could previously
cause a soft lockup in the NFS server. This patch fixes the underlying
source code, so the lockup no longer occurs. (BZ#1311582)
* The second attempt to reload Common Application Programming Interface
(CAPI) devices on the little-endian variant of IBM Power Systems previously
failed. The provided set of patches fixes this bug, and reloading works as
intended. (BZ#1312396)
* Due to inconsistencies in page size of IOMMU, the NVMe device, and the
kernel, the BUG_ON signal previously occurred in the nvme_setup_prps()
function, leading to the system crash while setting up the DMA transfer.
The provided patch sets the default NVMe page size to 4k, thus preventing
the system crash. (BZ#1312399)
* Previously, on a system using the Infiniband mlx5 driver used for the SRP
stack, a hard lockup previously occurred after the kernel exceeded time
with lock held with interrupts blocked. As a consequence, the system
panicked. This update fixes this bug, and the system no longer panics in
this situation. (BZ#1313814)
* On the little-endian variant of IBM Power Systems, the kernel previously
crashed in the bitmap_weight() function while running the memory affinity
script. The provided patch fortifies the topology setup and prevents
sd->child from being set to NULL when it is already NULL. As a result, the
memory affinity script runs successfully. (BZ#1316158)
* When a KVM guest wrote random values to the special-purpose registers
(SPR) Instruction Authority Mask Register (IAMR), the guest and the
corresponding QEMU process previously hung. This update adds the code which
sets SPRs to a suitable neutral value on guest exit, thus fixing this bug.
(BZ#1316636)
* Under heavy iSCSI traffic load, the system previously panicked due to a
race in the locking code leading to a list corruption. This update fixes
this bug, and the system no longer panics in this situation. (BZ#1316812)
* During SCSI exception handling (triggered by some irregularities), the
driver could previously use an already retired SCSI command. As a
consequence, a kernel panic or data corruption occurred. The provided
patches fix this bug, and exception handling now proceeds successfully.
(BZ#1316820)
* When the previously opened /dev/tty, which pointed to a pseudo terminal
(pty) pair, was the last file closed, a kernel crash could previously
occur. The underlying source code has been fixed, preventing this bug.
(BZ#1320297)
* Previously, when using VPLEX and FCoE via the bnx2fc driver, different
degrees of data corruption occurred. The provided patch fixes the FCP
Response (RSP) residual parsing in bnx2fc, which prevents the
aforementioned corruption. (BZ#1322279)
4. Solution:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1300257 - CVE-2016-0758 kernel: tags with indefinite length can corrupt pointers in asn1_find_indefinite_length()
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source:
kernel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.src.rpm
noarch:
kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.noarch.rpm
kernel-doc-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64:
kernel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64:
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source:
kernel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.src.rpm
noarch:
kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.noarch.rpm
kernel-doc-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64:
kernel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
x86_64:
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source:
kernel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.src.rpm
noarch:
kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.noarch.rpm
kernel-doc-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.noarch.rpm
ppc64:
kernel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-bootwrapper-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64.rpm
perf-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le:
kernel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-bootwrapper-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
perf-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
kernel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-s390x-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-kdump-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-kdump-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.s390x.rpm
kernel-kdump-devel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.s390x.rpm
perf-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.s390x.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.s390x.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.s390x.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
kernel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7):
ppc64:
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le:
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64:
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source:
kernel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.src.rpm
noarch:
kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.noarch.rpm
kernel-doc-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64:
kernel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7):
x86_64:
kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
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7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0758
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
8. Contact:
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