Mageia 7: MGASA-2020-0036 Critical: Kernel Buffer Overflow Issue
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January 13, 2020
This update is based on upstream 5.4.10 and fixes atleast the following security issues: ext4_empty_dir in fs/ext4/namei.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.12 allows a NULL pointer...
Summary
This update is based on upstream 5.4.10 and fixes atleast the following
security issues:
ext4_empty_dir in fs/ext4/namei.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.12 allows
a NULL pointer dereference because ext4_read_dirblock(inode,0,DIRENT_HTREE)
can be zero. (CVE-2019-19037)
It also fixes various potential security issues related to buffer overflows,
double frees, NUll pointer dereferences, improper / missing input
validations and so on.
Other fixes added in this update:
- Revert 'drm/amdgpu: Set no-retry as default.', fixing amdgpu hang
on Raven Ridge gpus (mga#25882)
- drm/i915/gt: Detect if we miss WaIdleLiteRestore, fixes or atleast
works around gpu hang (mga#25930)
- 3rdparty/rtl8812au: update to v5.6.4.2 (mga#25982)
- add support for RTL8117 ethernet
- rtl8xxxu: Add support for Edimax EW-7611ULB
- mountpoint_last(): fix the treatment of LAST_BIND
- HID: intel-ish-hid: ipc: Add Comet Lake H PCI device ID
- HID: intel-ish-hid: ipc: Add Tiger Lake PCI device ID
- HID: wacom: Reco...
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26049
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25882
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25930
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25982
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26003
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26015
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.4.7
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.4.8
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.4.9
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.4.10
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-19037
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 7/core/kernel-5.4.10-1.mga7
- 7/core/kmod-virtualbox-6.0.14-18.mga7
- 7/core/kmod-xtables-addons-3.7-8.mga7
- 7/core/wireguard-tools-1.0.20200102-1.mga7
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Publication date: 13 Jan 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0036.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-19037
Topics Covered
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