Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Important

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of networking tunnel device ioctl. A local attacker can cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and panic) via an ioctl (TUNSETIFF) call with a dev name containing a / character.

CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's USB subsystem in the __usb_get_extra_descriptor() function in the drivers/usb/core/usb.c which mishandles a size check during the reading of an extra descriptor data. By using a specially crafted USB device which sends a forged extra descriptor, an unprivileged user with physical access to the system can potentially cause a privilege escalation or trigger a system crash or lock up and thus to cause a denial of service (DoS).

CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write

A race condition in perf_event_open() allows local attackers to leak sensitive data from setuid programs. As no relevant locks (in particular the cred_guard_mutex) are held during the ptrace_may_access() call, it is possible for the specified target task to perform an execve() syscall with setuid execution before perf_event_alloc() actually attaches to it, allowing an attacker to bypass the ptrace_may_access() check and the perf_event_exit_task(current) call that is performed in install_exec_creds() during privileged execve() calls.

CWE-667 - Improper Locking