SUSE-SU-2024:0483-1: Security update for the Linux Kernel

Published Feb 15, 2024
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Updated

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 Azure kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: CVE-2024-1086: Fixed a use-after-free vulnerability inside the nftables component that could have been exploited to achieve local privilege escalation (bsc#1219434). CVE-2023-51780: Fixed a use-after-free in dovccioctl in net/atm/ioctl.c, because of a vccrecvmsg race condition (bsc#1218730). CVE-2023-46838: Fixed an issue with Xen netback processing of zero-length transmit fragment (bsc#1218836). CVE-2021-33631: Fixed an integer overflow in ext4writeinlinedataend() (bsc#1219412). CVE-2023-47233: Fixed a use-after-free in the device unplugging (disconnect the USB by hotplug) code inside the brcm80211 component (bsc#1216702). CVE-2023-51043: Fixed use-after-free during a race condition between a nonblocking atomic commit and a driver unload in drivers/gpu/drm/drmatomic.c (bsc#1219120). CVE-2024-0775: Fixed use-after-free in ext4remount in fs/ext4/super.c that could allow a local user to cause an information leak problem while freeing the old quota file names before a potential failure (bsc#1219053). CVE-2023-6040: Fixed an out-of-bounds access vulnerability while creating a new netfilter table, lack of a safeguard against invalid nftables family (pf) values within nftablesnewtable function (bsc#1218752). CVE-2023-51782: Fixed use-after-free in roseioctl in net/rose/afrose.c because of a roseaccept race condition (bsc#1218757). CVE-2024-0340: Fixed information disclosure in vhost/vhost.c:vhostnewmsg() (bsc#1218689). CVE-2023-51042: Fixed use-after-free in amdgpucswaitallfences in drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpucs.c (bsc#1219128). The following non-security bugs were fixed: Store the old kernel changelog entries in kernel-docs package (bsc#1218713) 9p: missing chunk of "fs/9p: Do not update file type when updating file attributes" (git-fixes). ACPICA: Avoid cache flush inside virtual machines (git-fixes). GFS2: Flush the GFS2 delete workqueue before stopping the kernel threads (git-fixes). KVM: s390: vsie: Fix STFLE interpretive execution identification (git-fixes bsc#1219022). UAPI: ndctl: Fix g++-unsupported initialisation in headers (git-fixes). USB: serial: option: add Fibocom to DELL custom modem FM101R-GL (git-fixes). USB: serial: option: add Telit LE910C4-WWX 0x1035 composition (git-fixes). USB: serial: option: add entry for Sierra EM9191 with new firmware (git-fixes). USB: serial: option: fix FM101R-GL defines (git-fixes). acpi/nfit: Require opt-in for read-only label configurations (git-fixes). acpi/nfit: improve bounds checking for 'func' (git-fixes). affs: fix basic permission bits to actually work (git-fixes). aio: fix mremap after fork null-deref (git-fixes). asix: Add check for usbnetgetendpoints (git-fixes). bnxten: Log unknown link speed appropriately (git-fixes). ceph: fix incorrect revoked caps assert in cephfillfilesize() (bsc#1219445). chardev: fix error handling in cdevdeviceadd() (git-fixes). configfs: fix a deadlock in configfssymlink() (git-fixes). configfs: fix a race in configfs{,un}registersubsystem() (git-fixes). configfs: fix a use-after-free in configfsopenfile (git-fixes). configfs: fix configitem refcnt leak in configfsrmdir() (git-fixes). configfs: fix memleak in configfsreleasebinfile (git-fixes). configfs: new object reprsenting tree fragments (git-fixes). configfs: provide exclusion between IO and removals (git-fixes). configfs: stash the data we need into configfsbuffer at open time (git-fixes). ext4: Avoid freeing inodes on dirty list (bsc#1216989). ext4: silence the warning when evicting inode with dioreadnolock (bsc#1206889). fat: add ratelimit to fatentbread() (git-fixes). fs/exofs: fix potential memory leak in mount option parsing (git-fixes). fs/fat/fatent.c: add condresched() to fatcountfreeclusters() (git-fixes). fs/fat/file.c: issue flush after the writeback of FAT (git-fixes). fs/file.c: initialize initfiles.resizewait (git-fixes). fs: do not audit the capability check in simplexattrlist() (git-fixes). fs: ocfs2: namei: check return value of ocfs2addentry() (git-fixes). fs: orangefs: fix error return code of orangefsrevalidatelookup() (git-fixes). fs: ratelimit findgetblockslow() failure message (git-fixes). fs: warn about impending deprecation of mandatory locks (git-fixes). gfs2: Allow locknolock mount to specify jid=X (git-fixes). gfs2: Check sbbsizeshift after reading superblock (git-fixes). gfs2: Do not call dlm after protocol is unmounted (git-fixes). gfs2: Do not set GFS2RDFUPTODATE when the lvb is updated (git-fixes). gfs2: Do not skip dlm unlock if glock had an lvb (git-fixes). gfs2: Fix inode height consistency check (git-fixes). gfs2: Fix lrucount going negative (git-fixes). gfs2: Fix marking bitmaps non-full (git-fixes). gfs2: Fix possible data races in gfs2showoptions() (git-fixes). gfs2: Fix sign extension bug in gfs2updatestats (git-fixes). gfs2: Fix use-after-free in gfs2glockshrinkscan (git-fixes). gfs2: Free rdbits later in gfs2clearrgrpd to fix use-after-free (git-fixes). gfs2: Make sure FITRIM minlen is rounded up to fs block size (git-fixes). gfs2: Special-case rindex for gfs2grow (git-fixes). gfs2: Wake up when sdglockdisposal becomes zero (git-fixes). gfs2: add validation checks for size of superblock (git-fixes). gfs2: assign rgrp glock before computebitstructs (git-fixes). gfs2: check for empty rgrp tree in gfs2riupdate (git-fixes). gfs2: check for live vs. read-only file system in gfs2fitrim (git-fixes). gfs2: clear bufintr when ending a transaction in sweepbhforrgrps (git-fixes). gfs2: fix use-after-free on transaction ail lists (git-fixes). gfs2: ignore negated quota changes (git-fixes). gfs2: initialize transaction trailXlists earlier (git-fixes). gfs2: report "already frozen/thawed" errors (git-fixes). gfs2: take jdata unstuff into account in dogrow (git-fixes). gfs2atomicopen(): fix OEXCL|OCREAT handling on cold dcache (git-fixes). gtp: change NETUDPTUNNEL dependency to select (git-fixes). helpnext should increase position index (git-fixes). iomap: sub-block dio needs to zeroout beyond EOF (git-fixes). kernfs: Separate kernfsprcontbuf and renamelock (git-fixes). kernfs: bring names in comments in line with code (git-fixes). kernfs: fix use-after-free in kernfsremove (git-fixes). libceph: use kernelconnect() (bsc#1219446). libnvdimm/btt: Fix LBA masking during 'free list' population (git-fixes). libnvdimm/btt: Fix a kmemdup failure check (git-fixes). libnvdimm/btt: Remove unnecessary code in bttfreelistinit (git-fixes). libnvdimm/btt: fix variable 'rc' set but not used (git-fixes). libnvdimm/namespace: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference (git-fixes). libnvdimm/ofpmem: Use devmkstrdup instead of kstrdup and check its return value (git-fixes). libnvdimm/pmem: Delete include of nd-core.h (git-fixes). libnvdimm/pmem: fix a possible OOB access when read and write pmem (git-fixes). libnvdimm/region: Fix label activation vs errors (git-fixes). libnvdimm: Fix compilation warnings with W=1 (git-fixes). libnvdimm: Out of bounds read in ndioctl() (git-fixes). libnvdimm: Validate command family indices (git-fixes). libnvdimm: cover up changes in struct nvdimmbusdescriptor (git-fixes). locks: print a warning when mount fails due to lack of "mand" support (git-fixes). mce: fix setmcenospec to always unmap the whole page (git-fixes). mkspec: Include constraints for both multibuild and plain package always There is no need to check for multibuild flag, the constraints can be always generated for both cases. mlx4: handle non-napi callers to napipoll (git-fixes). mlxsw: spectrum: Avoid -Wformat-truncation warnings (git-fixes). mlxsw: spectrum: Properly cleanup LAG uppers when removing port from LAG (git-fixes). mlxsw: spectrum: Set LAG port collector only when active (git-fixes). mm,mremap: bail out earlier in mremapto under map pressure (bsc#1123986). net/mlx5: Do not call timecounter cyc2time directly from 1PPS flow (git-fixes). net: (cpts) fix a missing check of clkprepare (git-fixes). net: dsa: bcmsf2: Propagate error value from mdiowrite (git-fixes). net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Work around mv886e6161 SERDES missing MIIPHYSID2 (git-fixes). net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: avoid error message on remove from VLAN 0 (git-fixed). net: dsa: qca8k: Enable delay for RGMIIID mode (git-fixes). net: ethernet: ti: fix possible object reference leak (git-fixes). net: fec: Do not use netdev messages too early (git-fixes). net: ks8851: Delay requesting IRQ until opened (git-fixes). net: ks8851: Reassert reset pin if chip ID check fails (git-fixes). net: ks8851: Set initial carrier state to down (git-fixes). net: macb: Add null check for PCLK and HCLK (git-fixed). net: mv643xxeth: disable clk on error path in mv643xxethsharedprobe() (git-fixes). net: mvneta: fix double free of txq->buf (git-fixes). net: phy: sfp: warn the user when no txdisable pin is available (git-fixes). net: phylink: avoid resolving link state too early (git-fixes). net: sfp: do not probe SFP module before we're attached (git-fixes). net: stmmac: Disable EEE mode earlier in XMIT callback (git-fixes). net: stmmac: Fallback to Platform Data clock in Watchdog conversion (git-fixes). net: stmmac: do not overwrite discardframe status (git-fixes). net: stmmac: dwmac-rk: fix error handling in rkgmacpowerup() (git-fixes). net: stmmac: dwmac1000: Clear unused address entries (git-fixed). net: stmmac: dwmac1000: fix out-of-bounds mac address reg setting (git-fixes). net: stmmac: dwmac4/5: Clear unused address entries (git-fixes). net: systemport: Fix reception of BPDUs (git-fixes). net: xilinx: fix possible object reference leak (git-fixed). nfsd: drop stmutex and rpmutex before calling movetocloselru() (bsc#1217525). nvdimm/btt: do not call delgendisk() if not needed (git-fixes). nvdimm: Allow overwrite in the presence of disabled dimms (git-fixes). nvdimm: Fix badblocks clear off-by-one error (git-fixes). nvmet-tcp: fix a crash in nvmetreqcomplete() (git-fixes). orangefs: Fix kmemleak in orangefspreparedebugfshelpstring() (git-fixes). orangefs: Fix sysfs not cleanup when dev init failed (git-fixes). orangefs: fix orangefs df output (git-fixes). orangefs: rate limit the client not running info message (git-fixes). powerpc/powernv: Add a null pointer check in opaleventinit() (bsc#1065729). powerpc/powernv: Add a null pointer check in opalpowercapinit() (bsc#1181674 ltc#189159 git-fixes). powerpc/pseries/memhotplug: Quieten some DLPAR operations (bsc#1065729). powerpc/pseries/memhp: Fix access beyond end of drmem array (bsc#1065729). powerpc: Do not clobber f0/vs0 during fp|altivec register save (bsc#1065729). preserve KABI for struct platstmmacenetdata (git-fixes). preserve KABI for struct sfpsocketops (git-fixes). proc: fix /proc//mapfiles lookup (git-fixes). pstore/ram: Check start of empty przs during init (git-fixes). pstore/ram: Fix error return code in ramoopsprobe() (git-fixes). pstore/ram: Run without kernel crash dump region (git-fixes). pstore: Avoid kcore oops by vmap()ing with VMIOREMAP (git-fixes). pstore: ramcore: fix possible overflow in persistentraminitecc() (git-fixes). r8169: fix data corruption issue on RTL8402 (git-fixes). reiserfs: Check the return value from getblk() (git-fixes). reiserfs: Replace 1-element array with C99 style flex-array (git-fixes). s390/dasd: fix double module refcount decrement (bsc#1141539). scsi: qedf: fcrportpriv reference counting fixes (bsc#1212152). scsi: qla0xxx: Fix system crash due to bad pointer access (git-fixes). sfc: initialise found bitmap in efxef10mtdprobe (git-fixes). statfs: enforce statfs[64] structure initialization (git-fixes). tracing/trigger: Fix to return error if failed to alloc snapshot (git-fixes). usb: xhci: xhci-ring: Use sysdev for mapping bounce buffer (git-fixes). veth: Fixing transmit return status for dropped packets (git-fixes). vfs: make freezesuper abort when syncfilesystem returns error (git-fixes). writeback: Export inodeiolistdel() (bsc#1216989). x86/CPU/AMD: Check vendor in the AMD microcode callback (git-fixes). x86/alternatives: Sync core before enabling interrupts (git-fixes). x86/asm: Ensure asm/proto.h can be included stand-alone (git-fixes). x86/bugs: Add "unknown" reporting for MMIO Stale Data (git-fixes). x86/build: Treat R386PLT32 relocation as R386PC32 (git-fixes). x86/build: Turn off -fcf-protection for realmode targets (git-fixes). x86/cpu/hygon: Fix the CPU topology evaluation for real (git-fixes). x86/cpu: Add another Alder Lake CPU to the Intel family (git-fixes). x86/fpu: Use Alignof to avoid undefined behavior in TYPEALIGN (git-fixes). x86/kvm/lapic: always disable MMIO interface in x2APIC mode (git-fixes). x86/kvm: Do not try to disable kvmclock if it was not enabled (git-fixes). x86/lib: Fix overflow when counting digits (git-fixes). x86/mce: relocate set{clear}mcenospec() functions (git-fixes). x86/microcode/AMD: Track patch allocation size explicitly (git-fixes). x86/microcode/intel: Do not retry microcode reloading on the APs (git-fixes). x86/mm: Add a x86haspatwp() helper (git-fixes). x86/pat: Fix x86haspatwp() (git-fixes). x86/pat: Pass valid address to sanitizephys() (git-fixes). x86/pm: Add enumeration check before spec MSRs save/restore setup (git-fixes). x86/pm: Fix false positive kmemleak report in msrbuildcontext() (git-fixes). x86/purgatory: Do not generate debug info for purgatory.ro (git-fixes). x86/resctrl: Fix to restore to original value when re-enabling hardware prefetch register (git-fixes). x86/topology: Fix duplicated core ID within a package (git-fixes). x86/topology: Fix multiple packages shown on a single-package system (git-fixes). x86/unwind/orc: Fix unreliable stack dump with gcov (git-fixes). x86/unwind/orc: Unwind ftrace trampolines with correct ORC entry (git-fixes). x86: Clear .brk area at early boot (git-fixes). x86: Fix getwchan() for !STACKTRACE (git-fixes). x86: Fix getwchan() to support the ORC unwinder (git-fixes). x86: Mark stopthiscpu() noreturn (git-fixes). x86: Pin task-stack in getwchan() (git-fixes). x86: alwaysinline {rd,wr}msr() (git-fixes).

Affected Software

36 affected componentsFixes available
All of the following
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (nosrc x86_64)
suse/kernel-azure<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
All of the following
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (x86_64)
Any of the following
suse/kernel-azure-debugsource<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
suse/kernel-azure-base-debuginfo<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
suse/kernel-azure-debuginfo<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
suse/kernel-azure-devel<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
suse/kernel-syms-azure<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
suse/kernel-azure-base<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
All of the following
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (noarch)
Any of the following
suse/kernel-source-azure<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
suse/kernel-devel-azure<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
All of the following
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 (nosrc x86_64)
suse/kernel-azure<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
All of the following
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 (x86_64)
Any of the following
suse/kernel-azure-debugsource<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
suse/kernel-azure-base-debuginfo<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
suse/kernel-azure-debuginfo<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
suse/kernel-azure-devel<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
suse/kernel-syms-azure<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
suse/kernel-azure-base<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
All of the following
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 (noarch)
Any of the following
suse/kernel-source-azure<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
suse/kernel-devel-azure<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
All of the following
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (nosrc x86_64)
suse/kernel-azure<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
All of the following
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (x86_64)
Any of the following
suse/kernel-azure-debugsource<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
suse/kernel-azure-base-debuginfo<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
suse/kernel-azure-debuginfo<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
suse/kernel-azure-devel<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
suse/kernel-syms-azure<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
suse/kernel-azure-base<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
All of the following
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (noarch)
Any of the following
suse/kernel-source-azure<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1
suse/kernel-devel-azure<4.12.14-16.168.1
4.12.14-16.168.1

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade suse/kernel-azure to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 4.12.14-16.168.1
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade suse/kernel-azure-debugsource to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 4.12.14-16.168.1
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade suse/kernel-azure-base-debuginfo to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 4.12.14-16.168.1
  4. Upgrade

    Upgrade suse/kernel-azure-debuginfo to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 4.12.14-16.168.1
  5. Upgrade

    Upgrade suse/kernel-azure-devel to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 4.12.14-16.168.1
  6. Upgrade

    Upgrade suse/kernel-syms-azure to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 4.12.14-16.168.1
  7. Upgrade

    Upgrade suse/kernel-azure-base to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 4.12.14-16.168.1
  8. Upgrade

    Upgrade suse/kernel-source-azure to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 4.12.14-16.168.1
  9. Upgrade

    Upgrade suse/kernel-devel-azure to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 4.12.14-16.168.1
  10. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2024-483=1

Event History

Feb 15, 2024
Advisory Published
via SUSE·04:32 PM

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