SB2022092397 - openEuler 20.03 LTS SP1 update for kernel

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 5 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Security restrictions bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3656)

The vulnerability allows a malicious guest to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to improperly imposed security restrictions within the KVM's AMD code for supporting SVM nested virtualization. The flaw occurs when processing the VMCB (virtual machine control block) provided by the L1 guest to spawn/handle a nested guest (L2). Due to improper validation of the "virt_ext" field, this issue could allow a malicious L1 to disable both VMLOAD/VMSAVE intercepts and VLS (Virtual VMLOAD/VMSAVE) for the L2 guest.

The vulnerability allows the L2 guest to read/write physical pages of the host, resulting in a crash of the entire system, leak of sensitive data or potential guest-to-host escape.

2) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-4157)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in the Linux kernel NFS subsystem. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted data and crash the system or escalate privileges on the system

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

3) Type conversion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-0322)

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a type conversion error in the sctp_make_strreset_req() function in net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c in the SCTP network protocol in the Linux kernel. A local user can perform a denial of service attack.

4) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-45868)

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial-of-service attack.

The vulnerability exists due to fs/quota/quota_tree.c does not validate the block number in the quota tree (on disk). A local user can trigger use-after-free error and perform a denial-of-service attack.

5) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-3202)

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in diFree in fs/jfs/inode.c in Journaled File System (JFS) in the Linux kernel. A local user can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/security-bulletins/detail/?id=openEuler-SA-2022-1940