SB2019022515 - Fedora 29 update for kernel, kernel-headers

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-8980)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper memory operations in the kernel_read_file function, as defined in the fs/exec.c source code file. A remote attacker can send malicious file that triggers vfs_read failures and memory leak condition and perform a denial of service attack.

2) Privilege escalation (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9162)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to array index error in SNMP NAT module (net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic_main.c) when parsing ASN.1-encoded payloads in SNMP messages. A local user can set up new network namespaces that invoke iptables configuration and triggers SNMP translations, cause out-of-bounds read and write operations and execute arbitrary code  on the system with elevated privileges.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-7462acf8ba