Executive Summary



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Summary
Title linux security update
Informations
Name DSA-4495 First vendor Publication 2019-08-10
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2019-08-10
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.

CVE-2018-20836

chenxiang reported a race condition in libsas, the kernel subsystem supporting Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) devices, which could lead to a use-after-free. It is not clear how this might be exploited.

CVE-2019-1125

It was discovered that most x86 processors could speculatively skip a conditional SWAPGS instruction used when entering the kernel from user mode, and/or could speculatively execute it when it should be skipped. This is a subtype of Spectre variant 1, which could allow local users to obtain sensitive information from the kernel or other processes. It has been mitigated by using memory barriers to limit speculative execution. Systems using an i386 kernel are not affected as the kernel does not use SWAPGS.

CVE-2019-1999

A race condition was discovered in the Android binder driver, which could lead to a use-after-free. If this driver is loaded, a local user might be able to use this for denial-of-service (memory corruption) or for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-10207

The syzkaller tool found a potential null dereference in various drivers for UART-attached Bluetooth adapters. A local user with access to a pty device or other suitable tty device could use this for denial-of-service (BUG/oops).

CVE-2019-10638

Amit Klein and Benny Pinkas discovered that the generation of IP packet IDs used a weak hash function, "jhash". This could enable tracking individual computers as they communicate with different remote servers and from different networks. The "siphash" function is now used instead.

CVE-2019-12817

It was discovered that on the PowerPC (ppc64el) architecture, the hash page table (HPT) code did not correctly handle fork() in a process with memory mapped at addresses above 512 TiB. This could lead to a use-after-free in the kernel, or unintended sharing of memory between user processes. A local user could use this for privilege escalation. Systems using the radix MMU, or a custom kernel with a 4 KiB page size, are not affected.

CVE-2019-12984

It was discovered that the NFC protocol implementation did not properly validate a netlink control message, potentially leading to a null pointer dereference. A local user on a system with an NFC interface could use this for denial-of-service (BUG/oops).

CVE-2019-13233

Jann Horn discovered a race condition on the x86 architecture, in use of the LDT. This could lead to a use-after-free. A local user could possibly use this for denial-of-service.

CVE-2019-13631

It was discovered that the gtco driver for USB input tablets could overrun a stack buffer with constant data while parsing the device's descriptor. A physically present user with a specially constructed USB device could use this to cause a denial-of-service (BUG/oops), or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2019-13648

Praveen Pandey reported that on PowerPC (ppc64el) systems without Transactional Memory (TM), the kernel would still attempt to restore TM state passed to the sigreturn() system call. A local user could use this for denial-of-service (oops).

CVE-2019-14283

The syzkaller tool found a missing bounds check in the floppy disk driver. A local user with access to a floppy disk device, with a disk present, could use this to read kernel memory beyond the I/O buffer, possibly obtaining sensitive information.

CVE-2019-14284

The syzkaller tool found a potential division-by-zero in the floppy disk driver. A local user with access to a floppy disk device could use this for denial-of-service (oops).

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 4.19.37-5+deb10u2.

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your linux packages.

For the detailed security status of linux please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/linux

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4495

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
15 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)
15 % CWE-416 Use After Free
15 % CWE-362 Race Condition
8 % CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
8 % CWE-415 Double Free
8 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
8 % CWE-369 Divide By Zero
8 % CWE-326 Inadequate Encryption Strength
8 % CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE/SANS Top 25)
8 % CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2
Application 1
Application 1
Application 1
Application 1
Application 1
Application 1
Application 1
Application 1
Application 1
Hardware 1
Os 4
Os 3
Os 2
Os 1
Os 3333
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 3
Os 2
Os 1
Os 1
Os 2
Os 1
Os 1
Os 3
Os 1
Os 3
Os 1
Os 3
Os 1

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Date Informations
2019-09-06 12:06:36
  • Multiple Updates
2019-08-11 00:18:22
  • First insertion