Security Bulletin
Summary
Intel® Manycore Platform Software Stack (Intel® MPSS) for Linux and Windows have addressed the following vulnerabilities.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2015-9261
DESCRIPTION: BusyBox is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the huft_build in archival/libarchive/decompress_gunzip.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted ZIP file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/147643 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2017-18208
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the madvise_willneed function in mm/madvise.c. By triggering use of MADVISE_WILLNEED for a DAX mapping, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/139764 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2017-18075
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a mishandling of freeing instances by crypto/pcrypt.c. By executing a specially-crafted sequence of system calls, a local authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/138237 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2017-18216
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference flaw in fs/ocfs2/cluster/nodemanager.c. By sending a specially-crafted request, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base Score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/139923 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2017-18203
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the dm_get_from_kobject function in drivers/md/dm.c. By leveraging a race condition with __dm_destroy during creation and removal of DM devices, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/139759 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2017-15116
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by NULL pointer dereference in the rngapi_reset function in crypto/rng.c. By sending a specially-crafted packet, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/135735 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2017-16994
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw in the walk_hugetlb_range function in mm/pagewalk.c. By using a specially-crafted system call, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/135497 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2017-8779
DESCRIPTION: rpcbind, LIBTIRPC, and NTIRPC are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper validation of XDR strings in memory allocation. By sending a specially-crafted UDP packet, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause memory consumption.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/125753 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2017-14140
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by improper validation of effective uid of the target process in the move_pages system call in mm/migrate.c. By sending a specially-crafted request, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to learn the memory layout of a setuid executable despite ASLR.
CVSS Base Score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/131413 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2018-18310
DESCRIPTION: elfutils is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an invalid memory address dereference in dwfl_segment_report_module.c in libdwfl. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base Score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/151273 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2018-18521
DESCRIPTION: elfutils is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a divide-by-zero flaw in the function arlib_add_symbols() in arlib.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/151750 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2018-18520
DESCRIPTION: elfutils is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an invalid memory address dereference exists in the function elf_end in libelf. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/151751 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2018-16402
DESCRIPTION: elfutils is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a double free in the libelf/elf_end.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/149340 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2018-16403
DESCRIPTION: elfutils is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a heap-based buffer overflow in the dwarf_getabbrev in dwarf_getabbrev.c and dwarf_hasattr in dwarf_hasattr.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/149339 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2018-16062
DESCRIPTION: Elfutils is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a heap-based buffer over-read in /elfutils/libdw/dwarf_getaranges.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/149133 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2018-7995
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a race condition in the store_int_with_restart function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c. By leveraging root access to write to the check_interval file, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the system to panic.
CVSS Base Score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/140100 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2018-6927
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an integer overflow in the futex_requeue function in kernel/futex.c. By triggering a negative wake or requeue value, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/139067 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2018-1066
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in the fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c:setup_ntlmv2_rsp() function. An attacker controlling a CIFS server could exploit this vulnerability to cause a kernel panic.
CVSS Base Score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/139836 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2018-5333
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an rds_atomic_free_op NULL pointer dereference in the rds_cmsg_atomic function in net/rds/rdma.c. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the system to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/137567 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2018-5332
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a heap-based out-of-bounds write in the rds_rdma_extra_size function in net/rds/rdma.c. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the system to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/137569 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2018-5344
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a use-after-free in the drivers/block/loop.c. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the system to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/137649 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
Affected Products and Versions
The following products used with Intel Xeon Phi PCI-Express cards (Intel Xeon Phi 3120A, Intel Xeon Phi 5110P, Intel Xeon Phi 7120A, and Intel Xeon Phi 7210P) on the System x systems:
- iDataPlex dx360 M4
- NeXtScale nx360 M4
- PureFlex x220 M4 / x240 M4 / x240 M5
- x3850 X6 / x3950 X6
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Product |
Affected Version |
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Intel® Manycore Platform Software Stack (MPSS) for Linux & Windows |
3.8 |
Remediation/Fixes
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Product |
Fixed Version |
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Intel® Manycore Platform Software Stack (MPSS) for Linux & Windows |
3.8.5 |
Workarounds and Mitigations
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References
Change History
25 February 2019: Initial version published
*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.
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Document Location
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Document Information
Modified date:
25 February 2019
UID
ibm10872832