[LU-7451] kernel upgrade [RHEL7.2 3.10.0-327.3.1.el7]

Blocker — Fri, 1 Jul 2016 18:47:00 +0000

This ticket represents upgrade of our supported el7 version from RHEL 7.1 to RHEL 7.2, just announced recently.

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's file system implementation
handled rename operations in which the source was inside and the
destination was outside of a bind mount. A privileged user inside a
container could use this flaw to escape the bind mount and, potentially,
escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2015-2925, Important)

A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's IPC
subsystem initialized certain fields in an IPC object structure that were
later used for permission checking before inserting the object into a
globally visible list. A local, unprivileged user could potentially use
this flaw to elevate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2015-7613,
Important)

It was found that reporting emulation failures to user space could lead
to either a local (CVE-2014-7842) or a L2->L1 (CVE-2010-5313) denial of
service. In the case of a local denial of service, an attacker must have
access to the MMIO area or be able to access an I/O port. (CVE-2010-5313,
CVE-2014-7842, Moderate)

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem handled
non-canonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the RIP
(for example, branches or calls). A guest user with access to an I/O or
MMIO region could use this flaw to crash the guest. (CVE-2014-3647,
Moderate)

It was found that the Linux kernel memory resource controller's (memcg)
handling of OOM (out of memory) conditions could lead to deadlocks.
An attacker could use this flaw to lock up the system. (CVE-2014-8171,
Moderate)

A race condition flaw was found between the chown and execve system
calls. A local, unprivileged user could potentially use this flaw to
escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2015-3339, Moderate)

A flaw was discovered in the way the Linux kernel's TTY subsystem handled
the tty shutdown phase. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to
cause a denial of service on the system. (CVE-2015-4170, Moderate)

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the SCTP implementation.
A local user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service on the system
by triggering a kernel panic when creating multiple sockets in parallel
while the system did not have the SCTP module loaded. (CVE-2015-5283,
Moderate)

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's perf subsystem retrieved
userlevel stack traces on PowerPC systems. A local, unprivileged user could
use this flaw to cause a denial of service on the system. (CVE-2015-6526,
Moderate)

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Crypto subsystem handled
automatic loading of kernel modules. A local user could use this flaw to
load any installed kernel module, and thus increase the attack surface of
the running kernel. (CVE-2013-7421, CVE-2014-9644, Low)

An information leak flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel changed
certain segment registers and thread-local storage (TLS) during a context
switch. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to leak the user
space TLS base address of an arbitrary process. (CVE-2014-9419, Low)

It was found that the Linux kernel KVM subsystem's sysenter instruction
emulation was not sufficient. An unprivileged guest user could use this
flaw to escalate their privileges by tricking the hypervisor to emulate a
SYSENTER instruction in 16-bit mode, if the guest OS did not initialize the
SYSENTER model-specific registers (MSRs). Note: Certified guest operating
systems for Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM do initialize the SYSENTER
MSRs and are thus not vulnerable to this issue when running on a KVM
hypervisor. (CVE-2015-0239, Low)

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled the securelevel
functionality after performing a kexec operation. A local attacker could
use this flaw to bypass the security mechanism of the
securelevel/secureboot combination. (CVE-2015-7837, Low)

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

1033907 - Test case failure: Outputs - DVI on Radeon HD 7850 [1002:6819]
1033908 - Test case failure: Multihead - Large Desktop on Radeon HD 7850 [1002:6819]
1033910 - Test case failure: Panning on Radeon HD 7850 [1002:6819]
1033911 - Test case failure: Screen - Change Monitors on Radeon HD 7850 [1002:6819]
1034497 - Test case failure: KMS - Log out after suspend/resume on AMD/ATI Kaveri [1002:1304]
1036792 - PXE boot 5-10x slower in RHEL due to invalid guest state emulation
1064059 - clock_nanosleep returns early with TIMER_ABSTIME
1076738 - No RHGB on some new ATI hardware
1076769 - Test case failure: KMS - Log out after suspend/resume on ATI Pitcairn PRO [Radeon HD 7850] [1002:6819]
1144897 - CVE-2014-3647 kernel: kvm: noncanonical rip after emulation
1163762 - CVE-2010-5313 CVE-2014-7842 kernel: kvm: reporting emulation failures to userspace
1177260 - CVE-2014-9419 kernel: partial ASLR bypass through TLS base addresses leak
1182243 - partition scan in losetup does not succeed when bound repeatedly
1184155 - Dynamic tickless feature not working in RHEL7 KVM guest
1185469 - CVE-2013-7421 Linux kernel: crypto api unprivileged arbitrary module load via request_module()
1186112 - [thinkpad] Support the Lenovo early 2015 models touchpad (X1 Carbon 3rd, T450, W541)
1186448 - CVE-2015-0239 kernel: kvm: insufficient sysenter emulation when invoked from 16-bit code
1190546 - CVE-2014-9644 Linux kernel: crypto api unprivileged arbitrary module load via request_module()
1191604 - DM RAID - Add support for 'raid0' mappings to device-mapper raid target
1198109 - CVE-2014-8171 kernel: memcg: OOM handling DoS
1205258 - Busy loop in recv(MSG_PEEK|MSG_WAITALL)
1206198 - Intel 9-series PCH chipset ACS quirks
1209367 - CVE-2015-2925 Kernel: vfs: Do not allow escaping from bind mounts
1214030 - CVE-2015-3339 kernel: race condition between chown() and execve()
1218454 - CVE-2015-6526 kernel: perf on ppc64 can loop forever getting userlevel stacktraces
1218879 - CVE-2015-4170 kernel: pty layer race condition on tty ldisc shutdown.
1243998 - CVE-2015-7837 kernel: securelevel disabled after kexec [rhel-7.2]
1249107 - [targetcli] cannot discover iSCSI target with IPv6
1251331 - Lenovo W541 Xorg freezes when mini display port cable is plugged in - 3.10.0-267.el7 WARNING: at drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c:1272 process_single_tx_qlock+0x4b6/0x540 [drm_kms_helper]()
1257528 - CVE-2015-5283 kernel: Creating multiple sockets when SCTP module isn't loaded leads to kernel panic
1268270 - CVE-2015-7613 kernel: Unauthorized access to IPC objects with SysV shm
1272472 - CVE-2015-7837 kernel: securelevel disabled after kexec
839466 - ext4: ext4 driver should reject nonsensical mount options for ext2 and ext3

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[LU-7451] kernel upgrade [RHEL7.2 3.10.0-327.3.1.el7]