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SUSE Security Update: Security update for Linux kernel

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:0789-1

Rating: important

References: #556135 #735909 #743579 #744404 #747404 #754690

#756050 #757315 #758243 #759336 #759545 #759805

#760237 #760806 #761087 #761245 #762991 #762992

#763267 #763307 #763485 #763717 #764091 #764150

#764209 #764500 #764900 #765102 #765253 #765320

#765524

Cross-References: CVE-2012-2119 CVE-2012-2136 CVE-2012-2373

CVE-2012-2375 CVE-2012-2390

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2

SLE 11 SERVER Unsupported Extras

______________________________________________________________________________

 

An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has 26 fixes is

now available. It includes one version update.

 

Description:

 

 

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 kernel was updated to

3.0.34, fixing a lot of bugs and security issues.

 

The update from Linux kernel 3.0.31 to 3.0.34 also fixes

various bugs not listed here.

 

The following security issues have been fixed:

 

*

 

CVE-2012-2136: Local attackers could trigger an

overflow in sock_alloc_send_pksb(), potentially crashing

the machine or escalate privileges.

 

*

 

CVE-2012-2390: A memory leak in transparent hugepages

on mmap failure could be used by local attacker to run the

machine out of memory (local denial of service).

 

*

 

CVE-2012-2119: A malicious guest driver could

overflow the host stack by passing a long descriptor, so

potentially crashing the host system or escalating

privileges on the host.

 

*

 

CVE-2012-2375: Malicious NFS server could crash the

clients when more than 2 GETATTR bitmap words are returned

in response to the FATTR4_ACL attribute requests, only

incompletely fixed by CVE-2011-4131.

 

The following non-security bugs have been fixed:

 

 

Hyper-V:

 

* storvsc: Properly handle errors from the host

(bnc#747404).

* HID: hid-hyperv: Do not use hid_parse_report()

directly.

* HID: hyperv: Set the hid drvdata correctly.

* drivers/hv: Get rid of an unnecessary check in

vmbus_prep_negotiate_resp().

* drivers/hv: util: Properly handle version

negotiations.

* hv: fix return type of hv_post_message().

* net/hyperv: Add flow control based on hi/low

watermark.

* usb/net: rndis: break out defines. only

net/hyperv part

* usb/net: rndis: remove ambigous status codes. only

net/hyperv part

* usb/net: rndis: merge command codes. only net/hyperv

part

* net/hyperv: Adding cancellation to ensure rndis

filter is closed.

* update hv drivers to 3.4-rc1, requires new

hv_kvp_daemon:

* drivers: hv: kvp: Add/cleanup connector defines.

* drivers: hv: kvp: Move the contents of hv_kvp.h to

hyperv.h.

* net/hyperv: Convert camel cased variables in

rndis_filter.c to lower cases.

* net/hyperv: Correct the assignment in

netvsc_recv_callback().

* net/hyperv: Remove the unnecessary memset in

rndis_filter_send().

* drivers: hv: Cleanup the kvp related state in

hyperv.h.

* tools: hv: Use hyperv.h to get the KVP definitions.

* drivers: hv: kvp: Cleanup the kernel/user protocol.

* drivers: hv: Increase the number of VCPUs supported

in the guest.

* net/hyperv: Fix data corruption in

rndis_filter_receive().

* net/hyperv: Add support for vlan trunking from guests.

* Drivers: hv: Add new message types to enhance KVP.

* Drivers: hv: Support the newly introduced KVP

messages in the driver.

* Tools: hv: Fully support the new KVP verbs in the

user level daemon.

* Tools: hv: Support enumeration from all the pools.

* net/hyperv: Fix the code handling tx busy.

* patches.suse/suse-hv-pata_piix-ignore-disks.patch

replace our version of this patch with upstream variant:

ata_piix: defer disks to the Hyper-V drivers by default

libata: add a host flag to ignore detected ATA devices.

 

 

Btrfs:

 

* btrfs: more module message prefixes.

* vfs: re-implement writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle()

and rename them

* btrfs: flush all the dirty pages if

try_to_writeback_inodes_sb_nr() fails

* vfs: re-implement writeback_inodes_sb(_nr)_if_idle()

and rename them

* btrfs: fix locking in btrfs_destroy_delayed_refs

* btrfs: wake up transaction waiters when aborting a

transaction

* btrfs: abort the transaction if the commit fails

* btrfs: fix btrfs_destroy_marked_extents

* btrfs: unlock everything properly in the error case

for nocow

* btrfs: fix return code in drop_objectid_items

* btrfs: check to see if the inode is in the log before

fsyncing

* btrfs: pass locked_page into

extent_clear_unlock_delalloc if theres an error

* btrfs: check the return code of btrfs_save_ino_cache

* btrfs: do not update atime for RO snapshots

(FATE#306586).

* btrfs: convert the inode bit field to use the actual

bit operations

* btrfs: fix deadlock when the process of delayed refs

fails

* btrfs: stop defrag the files automatically when doin

readonly remount or umount

* btrfs: avoid memory leak of extent state in error

handling routine

* btrfs: make sure that we have made everything in

pinned tree clean

* btrfs: destroy the items of the delayed inodes in

error handling routine

* btrfs: ulist realloc bugfix

* btrfs: bugfix in btrfs_find_parent_nodes

* btrfs: bugfix: ignore the wrong key for indirect tree

block backrefs

* btrfs: avoid buffer overrun in btrfs_printk

* btrfs: fall back to non-inline if we do not have

enough space

* btrfs: NUL-terminate path buffer in DEV_INFO ioctl

result

* btrfs: avoid buffer overrun in mount option handling

* btrfs: do not do balance in readonly mode

* btrfs: fix the same inode id problem when doing auto

defragment

* btrfs: fix wrong error returned by adding a device

* btrfs: use fastpath in extent state ops as much as

possible

 

 

Misc:

 

* tcp: drop SYN+FIN messages (bnc#765102).

* mm: avoid swapping out with swappiness==0

(swappiness).

* thp: avoid atomic64_read in pmd_read_atomic for 32bit

PAE (bnc#762991).

* paravirt: Split paravirt MMU ops (bnc#556135,

bnc#754690, FATE#306453).

* paravirt: Only export pv_mmu_ops symbol if

PARAVIRT_MMU

* parvirt: Stub support KABI for KVM_MMU (bnc#556135,

bnc#754690, FATE#306453).

* tmpfs: implement NUMA node interleaving (bnc#764209).

* synaptics-hp-clickpad: Fix the detection of LED on

the recent HP laptops (bnc#765524)

* supported.conf: mark xt_AUDIT as supported

(bnc#765253)

* mm: pmd_read_atomic: fix 32bit PAE pmd walk vs

pmd_populate SMP race condition (bnc#762991 CVE-2012-2373).

* xhci: Do not free endpoints in xhci_mem_cleanup()

(bnc#763307).

* xhci: Fix invalid loop check in xhci_free_tt_info()

(bnc#763307).

* drm: Skip too big EDID extensions (bnc#764900).

* drm/i915: Add HP EliteBook to LVDS-temporary-disable

list (bnc#763717).

* hwmon: (fam15h_power) Increase output resolution

(bnc#759336).

* hwmon: (k10temp) Add support for AMD Trinity CPUs

(bnc#759336).

* rpm/kernel-binary.spec.in: Own the right -kdump

initrd (bnc#764500)

* memcg: prevent from OOM with too many dirty pages.

* dasd: re-prioritize partition detection message

(bnc#764091,LTC#81617).

* kernel: pfault task state race (bnc#764091,LTC#81724).

* kernel: clear page table for sw large page emulation

(bnc#764091,LTC#81933).

* USB: fix bug of device descriptor got from superspeed

device (bnc#761087).

* xfrm: take net hdr len into account for esp payload

size calculation (bnc#759545).

* st: clean up dev cleanup in st_probe (bnc#760806).

* st: clean up device file creation and removal

(bnc#760806).

* st: get rid of scsi_tapes array (bnc#760806).

* st: raise device limit (bnc#760806).

* st: Use static class attributes (bnc#760806).

* mm: Optimize put_mems_allowed() usage (VM

performance).

* cifs: fix oops while traversing open file list (try

#4) (bnc#756050).

* scsi: Fix dm-multipath starvation when scsi host is

busy (bnc#763485).

* dasd: process all requests in the device tasklet

(bnc#763267).

* rt2x00:Add RT539b chipset support (bnc#760237).

* kabi/severities: Ignore changes in

drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00, these are just exports used

among the rt2x00 modules.

* rt2800: radio 3xxx: reprogram only lower bits of

RF_R3 (bnc#759805).

* rt2800: radio 3xxx: program RF_R1 during channel

switch (bnc#759805).

* rt2800: radio 3xxxx: channel switch RX/TX calibration

fixes (bnc#759805).

* rt2x00: Avoid unnecessary uncached (bnc#759805).

* rt2x00: Introduce sta_add/remove callbacks

(bnc#759805).

* rt2x00: Add WCID to crypto struct (bnc#759805).

* rt2x00: Add WCID to HT TX descriptor (bnc#759805).

* rt2x00: Move bssidx calculation into its own function

(bnc#759805).

* rt2x00: Make use of sta_add/remove callbacks in

rt2800 (bnc#759805).

* rt2x00: Forbid aggregation for STAs not programmed

into the hw (bnc#759805).

* rt2x00: handle spurious pci interrupts (bnc#759805).

* rt2800: disable DMA after firmware load.

* rt2800: radio 3xxx: add channel switch calibration

routines (bnc#759805).

* rpm/kernel-binary.spec.in: Obsolete ath3k, as it is

now in the tree.

* floppy: remove floppy-specific O_EXCL handling

(bnc#757315).

* floppy: convert to delayed work and single-thread wq

(bnc#761245).

 

Security Issue references:

 

* CVE-2012-2119

 

* CVE-2012-2136

 

* CVE-2012-2373

 

* CVE-2012-2390

 

* CVE-2012-2375

 

 

Indications:

 

Everyone using the Linux Kernel on x86_64 architecture should update.

 

Special Instructions and Notes:

 

Please reboot the system after installing this update.

 

Patch Instructions:

 

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware:

 

zypper in -t patch slessp2-kernel-6457 slessp2-kernel-6463

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2:

 

zypper in -t patch slessp2-kernel-6453 slessp2-kernel-6457 slessp2-kernel-6458 slessp2-kernel-6463 slessp2-kernel-6467

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 SP2:

 

zypper in -t patch sleshasp2-kernel-6453 sleshasp2-kernel-6457 sleshasp2-kernel-6458 sleshasp2-kernel-6463 sleshasp2-kernel-6467

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2:

 

zypper in -t patch sledsp2-kernel-6457 sledsp2-kernel-6463

 

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

 

 

Package List:

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 3.0.34]:

 

kernel-default-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-default-base-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-default-devel-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-source-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-syms-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-trace-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-trace-base-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-trace-devel-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-xen-devel-3.0.34-0.7.9

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware (i586) [New Version: 3.0.34]:

 

kernel-pae-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-pae-base-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-pae-devel-3.0.34-0.7.9

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 3.0.34]:

 

kernel-default-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-default-base-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-default-devel-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-source-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-syms-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-trace-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-trace-base-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-trace-devel-3.0.34-0.7.9

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 3.0.34]:

 

kernel-ec2-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-ec2-base-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-ec2-devel-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-xen-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-xen-base-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-xen-devel-3.0.34-0.7.9

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (s390x) [New Version: 3.0.34]:

 

kernel-default-man-3.0.34-0.7.9

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (ppc64) [New Version: 3.0.34]:

 

kernel-ppc64-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-ppc64-base-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-ppc64-devel-3.0.34-0.7.9

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (i586) [New Version: 3.0.34]:

 

kernel-pae-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-pae-base-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-pae-devel-3.0.34-0.7.9

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 SP2 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64):

 

cluster-network-kmp-default-1.4_3.0.34_0.7-2.10.30

cluster-network-kmp-trace-1.4_3.0.34_0.7-2.10.30

gfs2-kmp-default-2_3.0.34_0.7-0.7.30

gfs2-kmp-trace-2_3.0.34_0.7-0.7.30

ocfs2-kmp-default-1.6_3.0.34_0.7-0.7.30

ocfs2-kmp-trace-1.6_3.0.34_0.7-0.7.30

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 SP2 (i586 x86_64):

 

cluster-network-kmp-xen-1.4_3.0.34_0.7-2.10.30

gfs2-kmp-xen-2_3.0.34_0.7-0.7.30

ocfs2-kmp-xen-1.6_3.0.34_0.7-0.7.30

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 SP2 (ppc64):

 

cluster-network-kmp-ppc64-1.4_3.0.34_0.7-2.10.30

gfs2-kmp-ppc64-2_3.0.34_0.7-0.7.30

ocfs2-kmp-ppc64-1.6_3.0.34_0.7-0.7.30

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11 SP2 (i586):

 

cluster-network-kmp-pae-1.4_3.0.34_0.7-2.10.30

gfs2-kmp-pae-2_3.0.34_0.7-0.7.30

ocfs2-kmp-pae-1.6_3.0.34_0.7-0.7.30

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 3.0.34]:

 

kernel-default-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-default-base-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-default-devel-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-default-extra-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-source-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-syms-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-trace-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-trace-base-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-trace-devel-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-trace-extra-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-xen-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-xen-base-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-xen-devel-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-xen-extra-3.0.34-0.7.9

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 (i586) [New Version: 3.0.34]:

 

kernel-pae-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-pae-base-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-pae-devel-3.0.34-0.7.9

kernel-pae-extra-3.0.34-0.7.9

 

- SLE 11 SERVER Unsupported Extras (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64):

 

ext4-writeable-kmp-default-0_3.0.34_0.7-0.14.11

kernel-default-extra-3.0.34-0.7.9

 

- SLE 11 SERVER Unsupported Extras (i586 x86_64):

 

ext4-writeable-kmp-xen-0_3.0.34_0.7-0.14.11

kernel-xen-extra-3.0.34-0.7.9

 

- SLE 11 SERVER Unsupported Extras (ppc64):

 

ext4-writeable-kmp-ppc64-0_3.0.34_0.7-0.14.11

kernel-ppc64-extra-3.0.34-0.7.9

 

- SLE 11 SERVER Unsupported Extras (i586):

 

ext4-writeable-kmp-pae-0_3.0.34_0.7-0.14.11

kernel-pae-extra-3.0.34-0.7.9

 

 

References:

 

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2119.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2136.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2373.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2375.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2390.html

https://bugzilla.novell.com/556135

https://bugzilla.novell.com/735909

https://bugzilla.novell.com/743579

https://bugzilla.novell.com/744404

https://bugzilla.novell.com/747404

https://bugzilla.novell.com/754690

https://bugzilla.novell.com/756050

https://bugzilla.novell.com/757315

https://bugzilla.novell.com/758243

https://bugzilla.novell.com/759336

https://bugzilla.novell.com/759545

https://bugzilla.novell.com/759805

https://bugzilla.novell.com/760237

https://bugzilla.novell.com/760806

https://bugzilla.novell.com/761087

https://bugzilla.novell.com/761245

https://bugzilla.novell.com/762991

https://bugzilla.novell.com/762992

https://bugzilla.novell.com/763267

https://bugzilla.novell.com/763307

https://bugzilla.novell.com/763485

https://bugzilla.novell.com/763717

https://bugzilla.novell.com/764091

https://bugzilla.novell.com/764150

https://bugzilla.novell.com/764209

https://bugzilla.novell.com/764500

https://bugzilla.novell.com/764900

https://bugzilla.novell.com/765102

https://bugzilla.novell.com/765253

https://bugzilla.novell.com/765320

https://bugzilla.novell.com/765524

http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=1a7682fe55225a6d2fb7535ed5b3a6f0

http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=31fea157a35016e51d4182b32fcb4191

http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=4011009aab039f02db913a7bce208f8f

http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=5a7bc846608efdf1aca0d4f66ea9c9bb

http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=643ef9cef491ee6820b78654f2716745

http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=681e25e2cce92c21c5a62ccbf5cc5678

http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=8d123a34ca9f20522bea6195c39428aa

http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=970acd862c76b234643d06e43d4048ed

http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=e33c406efece164f0fd3b33e3b387568

http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=f2bfce4b05959a193517d5099e8b3451

 

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