Advisories ยป MGASA-2019-0170

Updated kernel packages fixes security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 12 May 2019
Modification date: 17 Feb 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2019-3882 , CVE-2019-7308 , CVE-2019-11486 , CVE-2019-11599

Description

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.116 and fixes at least
the following security issues:

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's vfio interface implementation that
permits violation of the user's locked memory limit. If a device is bound
to a vfio driver, such as vfio-pci, and the local attacker is
administratively granted ownership of the device, it may cause a system
memory exhaustion and thus a denial of service (DoS) (CVE-2019-3882).

kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel before 4.20.6 performs undesirable
out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic in various cases, including
cases of different branches with different state or limits to sanitize,
leading to side-channel attacks (CVE-2019-7308).

The Siemens R3964 line discipline driver in drivers/tty/n_r3964.c in the
Linux kernel before 5.0.8 has multiple race conditions (CVE-2019-11486).

The coredump implementation in the Linux kernel before 5.0.10 does not use
locking or other mechanisms to prevent vma layout or vma flags changes while
it runs, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information, cause a
denial of service, or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering
a race condition with mmget_not_zero or get_task_mm calls (CVE-2019-11599).

WireGuard has been updated to 0.0.20190406.

For other uptstream fixes in this update, see the referenced changelogs.

References

SRPMS

6/core