GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2015-435

Advisory Published

Vulnetix · Advisory published November 7, 2015

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.1.12 longterm kernel and fixes at least the following security issue: Moein Ghasemzadeh discovered that the USB WhiteHEAT serial driver contained hardcoded attributes about the USB devices. An attacker could construct a fake WhiteHEAT USB device that, when inserted, causes a denial of service (system crash) (CVE-2015-5257). It also fixes various upstream bugs, for more info see the referenced changelogs. Other fixes in this update: * improve ath10k (QCA99X0, QCA988X, QCA6174) support (mga#16915) * silence a harmless warning on 32bit non-dt hardware (mga#17010) * fix regression with AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad of a Dell Latitude D600 (mga#17034) * kernel-firmware-nonfee: - Add firmware for mwlwifi - add firmware for QCA99X0 hw2.0, QCA988X hw2.0, QCA6174 hw2.1/3.0 (ath10k) - brcmfmac: firmware refresh for BCM43602 PCIE devices * iwlwifi-agn-ucode: - Add firmware for Intel Bluetooth 7265 (D1) - Update firmware for Intel Bluetooth 7265 (C0/D0) - Update firmware for Intel Bluetooth 7260 (B3/B4/B5/B6)

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Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
Mageia	kmod-virtualbox	0 (affected), 5.0.8-2.mga5 (unaffected)	—
Mageia	kmod-vboxadditions	0 (affected), 5.0.8-2.mga5 (unaffected)	—
Mageia	kernel-userspace-headers	0 (affected), 4.1.12-1.mga5 (unaffected)	—
Mageia	kmod-xtables-addons	0 (affected), 2.7-5.mga5 (unaffected)	—
Mageia	kernel	0 (affected), 4.1.12-1.mga5 (unaffected)	—
Mageia	kmod-nvidia304	0 (affected), 304.128-2.mga5.nonfree (unaffected)	—
Mageia	kernel-firmware-nonfree	0 (affected), 20151018-1.mga5.nonfree (unaffected)	—
Mageia	kmod-nvidia340	0 (affected), 340.93-2.mga5.nonfree (unaffected)	—
Mageia	kmod-nvidia-current	0 (affected), 346.96-2.mga5.nonfree (unaffected)	—
Mageia	kmod-broadcom-wl	0 (affected), 6.30.223.271-2.mga5.nonfree (unaffected)	—
Mageia	kmod-fglrx	15.200.1046-6.mga5.nonfree (unaffected), 0 (affected)	—