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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: kernel security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2013:0747-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0747.html
Issue date: 2013-04-16
CVE Names: CVE-2012-6537 CVE-2012-6542 CVE-2012-6546
CVE-2012-6547 CVE-2013-0216 CVE-2013-0231
CVE-2013-1826
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1. Summary:
Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and three 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.
This update fixes the following security issues:
* A flaw was found in the Xen netback driver implementation in the Linux
kernel. A privileged guest user with access to a para-virtualized network
device could use this flaw to cause a long loop in netback, leading to a
denial of service that could potentially affect the entire system.
(CVE-2013-0216, Moderate)
* A flaw was found in the Xen PCI device back-end driver implementation in
the Linux kernel. A privileged guest user in a guest that has a PCI
passthrough device could use this flaw to cause a denial of service that
could potentially affect the entire system. (CVE-2013-0231, Moderate)
* A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the IP packet transformation
framework (XFRM) implementation in the Linux kernel. A local user who has
the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability could use this flaw to cause a denial of
service. (CVE-2013-1826, Moderate)
* Information leak flaws were found in the XFRM implementation in the
Linux kernel. A local user who has the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability could use
these flaws to leak kernel stack memory to user-space. (CVE-2012-6537, Low)
* An information leak flaw was found in the logical link control (LLC)
implementation in the Linux kernel. A local, unprivileged user could use
this flaw to leak kernel stack memory to user-space. (CVE-2012-6542, Low)
* Two information leak flaws were found in the Linux kernel's Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM) subsystem. A local, unprivileged user could use these
flaws to leak kernel stack memory to user-space. (CVE-2012-6546, Low)
* An information leak flaw was found in the TUN/TAP device driver in the
Linux kernel's networking implementation. A local user with access to a
TUN/TAP virtual interface could use this flaw to leak kernel stack memory
to user-space. (CVE-2012-6547, Low)
Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting the CVE-2013-0216
and CVE-2013-0231 issues.
This update also fixes the following bugs:
* The IPv4 code did not correctly update the Maximum Transfer Unit (MTU) of
the designed interface when receiving ICMP Fragmentation Needed packets.
Consequently, a remote host did not respond correctly to ping attempts.
With this update, the IPv4 code has been modified so the MTU of the
designed interface is adjusted as expected in this situation. The ping
command now provides the expected output. (BZ#923353)
* Previously, the be2net code expected the last word of an MCC completion
message from the firmware to be transferred by direct memory access (DMA)
at once. However, this is not always true, and could therefore cause the
BUG_ON() macro to be triggered in the be_mcc_compl_is_new() function,
consequently leading to a kernel panic. The BUG_ON() macro has been
removed from be_mcc_compl_is_new(), and the kernel panic no longer occurs
in this scenario. (BZ#923910)
* Previously, the NFSv3 server incorrectly converted 64-bit cookies to
32-bit. Consequently, the cookies became invalid, which affected all file
system operations depending on these cookies, such as the READDIR operation
that is used to read entries from a directory. This led to various
problems, such as exported directories being empty or displayed
incorrectly, or an endless loop of the READDIRPLUS procedure which could
potentially cause a buffer overflow. This update modifies knfsd code so
that 64-bit cookies are now handled correctly and all file system
operations work as expected. (BZ#924087)
Users should 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/knowledge/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 (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
910874 - CVE-2013-0231 kernel: xen: pciback DoS via not rate limited log messages
910883 - CVE-2013-0216 CVE-2013-0217 kernel: xen: Linux netback DoS via malicious guest ring.
919384 - CVE-2013-1826 Kernel: xfrm_user: return error pointer instead of NULL
922322 - CVE-2012-6542 Kernel: llc: information leak via getsockname
922344 - CVE-2012-6547 Kernel: net/tun: ioctl() based information leaks
922383 - CVE-2012-6546 Kernel: atm: information leak in getsockopt & getsockname
922424 - CVE-2012-6537 Kernel: xfrm_user information leaks copy_to_user_
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Client/en/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.src.rpm
i386:
kernel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i386.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-xen-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
noarch:
kernel-doc-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.noarch.rpm
x86_64:
kernel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):
Source:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.src.rpm
i386:
kernel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i386.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-xen-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.i686.rpm
ia64:
kernel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-xen-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.ia64.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.ia64.rpm
noarch:
kernel-doc-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.noarch.rpm
ppc:
kernel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.ppc64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.ppc64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.ppc64.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.ppc.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.ppc64.rpm
kernel-kdump-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.ppc64.rpm
kernel-kdump-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.ppc64.rpm
kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.ppc64.rpm
s390x:
kernel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.s390x.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.s390x.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.s390x.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.s390x.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.s390x.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.s390x.rpm
kernel-kdump-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.s390x.rpm
kernel-kdump-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.s390x.rpm
kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
kernel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-debuginfo-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-348.4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
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7. References:
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2012-6537.html
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2012-6542.html
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2012-6546.html
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2012-6547.html
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-0216.html
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-0231.html
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-1826.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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