MGASA-2019-0107 - Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 13 Mar 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0107.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 6
CVE: CVE-2018-1000026

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.104 and fixes atleast
the following security issue:

Linux Linux kernel version at least v4.8 onwards, probably well before
contains a Insufficient input validation vulnerability in bnx2x network
card driver that can result in DoS: Network card firmware assertion takes
card off-line. This attack appear to be exploitable via An attacker on a
must pass a very large, specially crafted packet to the bnx2x card.
This can be done from an untrusted guest VM (CVE-2018-1000026).

It also fixes signal handling issues causing powertop to crash and some
tracing tools to fail on execve tests.

For other uptstream fixes in this update, see the referenced changelogs.

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24440
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.101
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.102
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.103
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.104
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000026

SRPMS:
- 6/core/kernel-4.14.104-2.mga6
- 6/core/kernel-userspace-headers-4.14.104-2.mga6
- 6/core/kmod-vboxadditions-5.2.24-8.mga6
- 6/core/kmod-virtualbox-5.2.24-8.mga6
- 6/core/kmod-xtables-addons-2.13-82.mga6