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Mageia: 2019-0288 moderate: Kernel Buffer Overflow and DoS Threats

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Calendar Grey September 21, 2019
Dist Mageia Esm H88
MGASA-2019-0288 - Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities Publication date: 21 Sep 2019
This kernel update is based on the upstream 5.2.16 and fixes atleast the following security issues: There is heap-based buffer overflow in the marvell wifi chip driver that allows...

Summary

This kernel update is based on the upstream 5.2.16 and fixes atleast the following security issues:
There is heap-based buffer overflow in the marvell wifi chip driver that allows local users to cause a denial of service(system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code (CVE-2019-14814, CVE-2019-14815, CVE-2019-14816).
An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the way Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor implements the Coalesced MMIO write operation. It operates on an MMIO ring buffer 'struct kvm_coalesced_mmio' object, wherein write indices 'ring->first' and 'ring->last' value could be supplied by a host user-space process. An unprivileged host user or process with access to '/dev/kvm' device could use this flaw to crash the host kernel, resulting in a denial of service or potentially escalating privileges on the system (CVE-2019-14821).
A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Linux kernel's vhost functionality that translates virtqueue buffers to IOVs, logged the buffer descriptors d...

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References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25454

- - - - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-14814

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-14815

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-14816

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-14821

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-14835

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/kernel-5.2.16-2.mga7

- 7/core/kernel-userspace-headers-5.2.16-2.mga7

- 7/core/kmod-virtualbox-6.0.10-10.mga7

- 7/core/kmod-xtables-addons-3.3-66.mga7

- 7/core/wireguard-tools-0.0.20190913-1.mga7

Publication date: 21 Sep 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0288.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-14814, CVE-2019-14815, CVE-2019-14816, CVE-2019-14821, CVE-2019-14835

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