[LU-5403] Kernel update [RHEL6.5 2.6.32-431.23.3.el6]

• Type: Bug
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Minor
• Fix Version/s: Lustre 2.7.0, Lustre 2.5.3
• Severity: 3
• Assignee: Yang Sheng
• Reporter: Yang Sheng

Description

• It was found that the Linux kernel's ptrace subsystem allowed a traced
  process' instruction pointer to be set to a non-canonical memory address
  without forcing the non-sysret code path when returning to user space.
  A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system or,
  potentially, escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2014-4699,
  Important)

Note: The CVE-2014-4699 issue only affected systems using an Intel CPU.

• A flaw was found in the way the pppol2tp_setsockopt() and
  pppol2tp_getsockopt() functions in the Linux kernel's PPP over L2TP
  implementation handled requests with a non-SOL_PPPOL2TP socket option
  level. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to escalate their
  privileges on the system. (CVE-2014-4943, Important)

Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1115927 - CVE-2014-4699 kernel: x86_64: ptrace: sysret to non-canonical address
1119458 - CVE-2014-4943 kernel: net: pppol2tp: level handling in pppol2tp_[s,g]etsockopt()

Comments

[Peter Jones]

Landed for 2.5.3 and 2.7

[Bob Glossman (Inactive)]

there's already an even newer kernel version update; 2.6.32-431.23.3.el6. I think it makes most sense to wait for that to arrive in Centos then update our build to that version, skipping -431.20.5. I plan to revise the mod in gerrit as soon as the update appears in Centos 6.

[Yang Sheng]

Patch for master: http://review.whamcloud.com/11211