Executive Summary
Summary | |
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Title | kernel security and bug fix update |
Informations | |||
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Name | RHSA-2013:1790 | First vendor Publication | 2013-12-05 |
Vendor | RedHat | Last vendor Modification | 2013-12-05 |
Severity (Vendor) | Moderate | Revision | 01 |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
Cvss vector : N/A | |||
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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:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N) | |||
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Cvss Base Score | 1.5 | Attack Range | Local |
Cvss Impact Score | 2.9 | Attack Complexity | Medium |
Cvss Expoit Score | 2.7 | Authentication | Requires single instance |
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Detail
Problem Description: Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, noarch, ppc, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, noarch, x86_64 3. Description: The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. * An information leak flaw was found in the way the Xen hypervisor handled error conditions when reading guest memory during certain guest-originated operations, such as port or memory mapped I/O writes. A privileged user in a fully-virtualized guest could use this flaw to leak hypervisor stack memory to a guest. (CVE-2013-4355, Moderate) Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue. This update also fixes the following bugs: * A previous fix to the kernel did not contain a memory barrier in the percpu_up_write() function. Consequently, under certain circumstances, a race condition could occur leading to memory corruption and a subsequent kernel panic. This update introduces a new memory barrier pair, light_mb() and heavy_mb(), for per-CPU basis read and write semaphores (percpu-rw-semaphores) ensuring that the race condition can no longer occur. In addition, the read path performance of "percpu-rw-semaphores" has been improved. (BZ#1014715) * Due to a bug in the tg3 driver, systems that had the Wake-on-LAN (WOL) feature enabled on their NICs could not have been woken up from suspension or hibernation using WOL. A missing pci_wake_from_d3() function call has been added to the tg3 driver, which ensures that WOL functions properly by setting the PME_ENABLE bit. (BZ#1014973) * Due to an incorrect test condition in the mpt2sas driver, the driver was unable to catch failures to map a SCSI scatter-gather list. The test condition has been corrected so that the mpt2sas driver now handles SCSI scatter-gather mapping failures as expected. (BZ#1018458) * A previous patch to the kernel introduced the "VLAN tag re-insertion" workaround to resolve a problem with incorrectly handled VLAN-tagged packets with no assigned VLAN group while the be2net driver was in promiscuous mode. However, this solution led to packet corruption and a subsequent kernel oops if such a processed packed was a GRO packet. Therefore, a patch has been applied to restrict VLAN tag re-insertion only to non-GRO packets. The be2net driver now processes VLAN-tagged packets with no assigned VLAN group correctly in this situation. (BZ#1023348) All kernel users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect. 4. Solution: Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258 To install kernel packages manually, use "rpm -ivh [package]". Do not use "rpm -Uvh" as that will remove the running kernel binaries from your system. You may use "rpm -e" to remove old kernels after determining that the new kernel functions properly on your system. 5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 1009598 - CVE-2013-4355 Kernel: Xen: Xsa-63: information leak via I/O instruction emulation |
Original Source
Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1790.html |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
% | Id | Name |
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100 % | CWE-200 | Information Exposure |
OVAL Definitions
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26673 | |||
Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26673 | ||
Title: | ELSA-2013-1790-1 -- kernel security and bug fix update (moderate) | ||
Description: | kernel [2.6.18-371.3.1.0.1] - i386: fix MTRR code (Zhenzhong Duan) [orabug 15862649] - [oprofile] x86, mm: Add __get_user_pages_fast() [orabug 14277030] - [oprofile] export __get_user_pages_fast() function [orabug 14277030] - [oprofile] oprofile, x86: Fix nmi-unsafe callgraph support [orabug 14277030] - [oprofile] oprofile: use KM_NMI slot for kmap_atomic [orabug 14277030] - [oprofile] oprofile: i386 add get_user_pages_fast support [orabug 14277030] - [kernel] Initialize the local uninitialized variable stats. [orabug 14051367] - [fs] JBD:make jbd support 512B blocks correctly for ocfs2. [orabug 13477763] - [x86 ] fix fpu context corrupt when preempt in signal context [orabug 14038272] - [mm] fix hugetlb page leak (Dave McCracken) [orabug 12375075] - fix ia64 build error due to add-support-above-32-vcpus.patch(Zhenzhong Duan) - [x86] use dynamic vcpu_info remap to support more than 32 vcpus (Zhenzhong Duan) - [x86] Fix lvt0 reset when hvm boot up with noapic param - [scsi] remove printk's when doing I/O to a dead device (John Sobecki, Chris Mason) [orabug 12342275] - [char] ipmi: Fix IPMI errors due to timing problems (Joe Jin) [orabug 12561346] - [scsi] Fix race when removing SCSI devices (Joe Jin) [orabug 12404566] - [net] net: Redo the broken redhat netconsole over bonding (Tina Yang) [orabug 12740042] - [fs] nfs: Fix __put_nfs_open_context() NULL pointer panic (Joe Jin) [orabug 12687646] - fix filp_close() race (Joe Jin) [orabug 10335998] - make xenkbd.abs_pointer=1 by default [orabug 67188919] - [xen] check to see if hypervisor supports memory reservation change (Chuck Anderson) [orabug 7556514] - [net] Enable entropy for bnx2,bnx2x,e1000e,igb,ixgb,ixgbe,ixgbevf (John Sobecki) [orabug 10315433] - [NET] Add xen pv netconsole support (Tina Yang) [orabug 6993043] [bz 7258] - [mm] Patch shrink_zone to yield during severe mempressure events, avoiding hangs and evictions (John Sobecki,Chris Mason) [orabug 6086839] - [mm] Enhance shrink_zone patch allow full swap utilization, and also be NUMA-aware (John Sobecki,Chris Mason,Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 9245919] - fix aacraid not to reset during kexec (Joe Jin) [orabug 8516042] - [xen] PVHVM guest with PoD crashes under memory pressure (Chuck Anderson) [orabug 9107465] - [xen] PV guest with FC HBA hangs during shutdown (Chuck Anderson) [orabug 9764220] - Support 256GB+ memory for pv guest (Mukesh Rathor) [orabug 9450615] - fix overcommit memory to use percpu_counter for (KOSAKI Motohiro, Guru Anbalagane) [orabug 6124033] - [ipmi] make configurable timeouts for kcs of ipmi [orabug 9752208] - [ib] fix memory corruption (Andy Grover) [orabug 9972346] - [usb] USB: fix __must_check warnings in drivers/usb/core/ (Junxiao Bi) [orabug 14795203] - [usb] usbcore: fix endpoint device creation (Junxiao Bi) [orabug 14795203] - [usb] usbcore: fix refcount bug in endpoint removal (Junxiao Bi) [orabug 14795203] | ||
Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
Reference(s): | ELSA-2013-1790-1 CVE-2013-4355 | Version: | 5 |
Platform(s): | Oracle Linux 5 | Product(s): | kernel ocfs2 oracleasm kernel-PAE kernel-PAE-devel kernel-debug kernel-debug-devel kernel-devel kernel-doc kernel-headers kernel-xen kernel-xen-devel |
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
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2015-05-20 | Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates. File : suse_SU-2014-0411-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2015-05-20 | Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates. File : suse_SU-2013-1774-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2014-11-26 | Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates. File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2013-0074.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2014-11-26 | Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates. File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2013-0071.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2014-11-26 | Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates. File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2013-0070.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
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2014-07-17 | Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : gentoo_GLSA-201407-03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2014-06-13 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : openSUSE-2013-821.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2014-06-13 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : openSUSE-2013-1021.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2013-12-10 | Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : sl_20131205_kernel_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2013-12-08 | Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-1790.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2013-12-08 | Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-1790-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2013-12-06 | Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates. File : centos_RHSA-2013-1790.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2013-12-06 | Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates. File : redhat-RHSA-2013-1790.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2013-11-20 | Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates. File : suse_11_xen-201310-131029.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2013-10-15 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2013-18378.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
2013-10-15 | Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2013-18373.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
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Alert History
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