Existing CommBuffer checks in SmmEntryPoint will not catch underflow when computing BufferSize.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7060-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that EDK II did not check the buffer length in XHCI,

    which could lead to a stack overflow. A local attacker could potentially use this issue to cause a denial     of service. This issue only affected

    Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-0161)

    Laszlo Ersek discovered that EDK II incorrectly handled recursion. A remote attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause EDK II to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected

    Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-28210)

    Satoshi Tanda discovered that EDK II incorrectly handled decompressing certain images. A remote attacker     could use this issue to cause EDK II to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute     arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-28211)

    It was discovered that EDK II incorrectly decoded certain strings. A remote attacker could use this issue     to cause EDK II to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue     only

    affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-38575)

    It was discovered that EDK II had integer underflow vulnerability in

    SmmEntryPoint, which could result in a buffer overflow. An attacker could potentially use this issue to     cause a denial of service. (CVE-2021-38578)

    Elison Niven discovered that OpenSSL, vendored in EDK II, incorrectly

    handled the c_rehash script. A local attacker could possibly use this

    issue to execute arbitrary commands when c_rehash is run. This issue

    only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-1292)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the versions of the edk2 package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - Insufficient control flow management in BIOS firmware for 8th, 9th, 10th Generation Intel(R) Core(TM),     Intel(R) Celeron(R) Processor 4000 & 5000 Series Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially     enable denial of service via adjacent access. (CVE-2019-14558)

  - Use after free vulnerability in EDK II may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of     privilege, information disclosure and/or denial of service via adjacent access. (CVE-2019-14586)

  - Logic issue EDK II may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via adjacent     access. (CVE-2019-14587)

  - An unlimited recursion in DxeCore in EDK II. (CVE-2021-28210)

  - Existing CommBuffer checks in SmmEntryPoint will not catch underflow when computing BufferSize.
    (CVE-2021-38578)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the edk2 package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - Existing CommBuffer checks in SmmEntryPoint will not catch underflow when computing BufferSize.
    (CVE-2021-38578)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the edk2 package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - Insufficient input validation in MdeModulePkg in EDKII may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially     enable escalation of privilege, denial of service and/or information disclosure via physical access.
    (CVE-2019-11098)

  - Existing CommBuffer checks in SmmEntryPoint will not catch underflow when computing BufferSize.
    (CVE-2021-38578)

  - The function PEM_read_bio_ex() reads a PEM file from a BIO and parses and decodes the 'name' (e.g.
    'CERTIFICATE'), any header data and the payload data. If the function succeeds then the 'name_out',     'header' and 'data' arguments are populated with pointers to buffers containing the relevant decoded data.
    The caller is responsible for freeing those buffers. It is possible to construct a PEM file that results     in 0 bytes of payload data. In this case PEM_read_bio_ex() will return a failure code but will populate     the header argument with a pointer to a buffer that has already been freed. If the caller also frees this     buffer then a double free will occur. This will most likely lead to a crash. This could be exploited by an     attacker who has the ability to supply malicious PEM files for parsing to achieve a denial of service     attack. The functions PEM_read_bio() and PEM_read() are simple wrappers around PEM_read_bio_ex() and     therefore these functions are also directly affected. These functions are also called indirectly by a     number of other OpenSSL functions including PEM_X509_INFO_read_bio_ex() and SSL_CTX_use_serverinfo_file()     which are also vulnerable. Some OpenSSL internal uses of these functions are not vulnerable because the     caller does not free the header argument if PEM_read_bio_ex() returns a failure code. These locations     include the PEM_read_bio_TYPE() functions as well as the decoders introduced in OpenSSL 3.0. The OpenSSL     asn1parse command line application is also impacted by this issue. (CVE-2022-4450)

  - The public API function BIO_new_NDEF is a helper function used for streaming ASN.1 data via a BIO. It is     primarily used internally to OpenSSL to support the SMIME, CMS and PKCS7 streaming capabilities, but may     also be called directly by end user applications. The function receives a BIO from the caller, prepends a     new BIO_f_asn1 filter BIO onto the front of it to form a BIO chain, and then returns the new head of the     BIO chain to the caller. Under certain conditions, for example if a CMS recipient public key is invalid,     the new filter BIO is freed and the function returns a NULL result indicating a failure. However, in this     case, the BIO chain is not properly cleaned up and the BIO passed by the caller still retains internal     pointers to the previously freed filter BIO. If the caller then goes on to call BIO_pop() on the BIO then     a use-after-free will occur. This will most likely result in a crash. This scenario occurs directly in the     internal function B64_write_ASN1() which may cause BIO_new_NDEF() to be called and will subsequently call     BIO_pop() on the BIO. This internal function is in turn called by the public API functions     PEM_write_bio_ASN1_stream, PEM_write_bio_CMS_stream, PEM_write_bio_PKCS7_stream, SMIME_write_ASN1,     SMIME_write_CMS and SMIME_write_PKCS7. Other public API functions that may be impacted by this include     i2d_ASN1_bio_stream, BIO_new_CMS, BIO_new_PKCS7, i2d_CMS_bio_stream and i2d_PKCS7_bio_stream. The OpenSSL     cms and smime command line applications are similarly affected. (CVE-2023-0215)

  - There is a type confusion vulnerability relating to X.400 address processing inside an X.509 GeneralName.
    X.400 addresses were parsed as an ASN1_STRING but the public structure definition for GENERAL_NAME     incorrectly specified the type of the x400Address field as ASN1_TYPE. This field is subsequently     interpreted by the OpenSSL function GENERAL_NAME_cmp as an ASN1_TYPE rather than an ASN1_STRING. When CRL     checking is enabled (i.e. the application sets the X509_V_FLAG_CRL_CHECK flag), this vulnerability may     allow an attacker to pass arbitrary pointers to a memcmp call, enabling them to read memory contents or     enact a denial of service. In most cases, the attack requires the attacker to provide both the certificate     chain and CRL, neither of which need to have a valid signature. If the attacker only controls one of these     inputs, the other input must already contain an X.400 address as a CRL distribution point, which is     uncommon. As such, this vulnerability is most likely to only affect applications which have implemented     their own functionality for retrieving CRLs over a network. (CVE-2023-0286)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2234-1 advisory.

  - Existing CommBuffer checks in SmmEntryPoint will not catch underflow when computing BufferSize.
    (CVE-2021-38578)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2023-2165 advisory.

    - Resolves: bz#2164534       (CVE-2023-0286 edk2: openssl: X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName [rhel-9])
    - Resolves: bz#2164550       (CVE-2022-4304 edk2: openssl: timing attack in RSA Decryption implementation [rhel-9])
    - Resolves: bz#2164565       (CVE-2023-0215 edk2: openssl: use-after-free following BIO_new_NDEF [rhel-9])
    - Resolves: bz#2164583       (CVE-2022-4450 edk2: openssl: double free after calling PEM_read_bio_ex [rhel-9])
    - Resolves: bz#1989857       (CVE-2021-38578 edk2: integer underflow in SmmEntryPoint function leads to potential SMM privilege     escalation [rhel-9.0])

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2023:2165 advisory.

  - Existing CommBuffer checks in SmmEntryPoint will not catch underflow when computing BufferSize.
    (CVE-2021-38578)

  - A timing based side channel exists in the OpenSSL RSA Decryption implementation which could be sufficient     to recover a plaintext across a network in a Bleichenbacher style attack. To achieve a successful     decryption an attacker would have to be able to send a very large number of trial messages for decryption.
    The vulnerability affects all RSA padding modes: PKCS#1 v1.5, RSA-OEAP and RSASVE. For example, in a TLS     connection, RSA is commonly used by a client to send an encrypted pre-master secret to the server. An     attacker that had observed a genuine connection between a client and a server could use this flaw to send     trial messages to the server and record the time taken to process them. After a sufficiently large number     of messages the attacker could recover the pre-master secret used for the original connection and thus be     able to decrypt the application data sent over that connection. (CVE-2022-4304)

  - The function PEM_read_bio_ex() reads a PEM file from a BIO and parses and decodes the name (e.g.
    CERTIFICATE), any header data and the payload data. If the function succeeds then the name_out,     header and data arguments are populated with pointers to buffers containing the relevant decoded data.
    The caller is responsible for freeing those buffers. It is possible to construct a PEM file that results     in 0 bytes of payload data. In this case PEM_read_bio_ex() will return a failure code but will populate     the header argument with a pointer to a buffer that has already been freed. If the caller also frees this     buffer then a double free will occur. This will most likely lead to a crash. This could be exploited by an     attacker who has the ability to supply malicious PEM files for parsing to achieve a denial of service     attack. The functions PEM_read_bio() and PEM_read() are simple wrappers around PEM_read_bio_ex() and     therefore these functions are also directly affected. These functions are also called indirectly by a     number of other OpenSSL functions including PEM_X509_INFO_read_bio_ex() and SSL_CTX_use_serverinfo_file()     which are also vulnerable. Some OpenSSL internal uses of these functions are not vulnerable because the     caller does not free the header argument if PEM_read_bio_ex() returns a failure code. These locations     include the PEM_read_bio_TYPE() functions as well as the decoders introduced in OpenSSL 3.0. The OpenSSL     asn1parse command line application is also impacted by this issue. (CVE-2022-4450)

  - The public API function BIO_new_NDEF is a helper function used for streaming ASN.1 data via a BIO. It is     primarily used internally to OpenSSL to support the SMIME, CMS and PKCS7 streaming capabilities, but may     also be called directly by end user applications. The function receives a BIO from the caller, prepends a     new BIO_f_asn1 filter BIO onto the front of it to form a BIO chain, and then returns the new head of the     BIO chain to the caller. Under certain conditions, for example if a CMS recipient public key is invalid,     the new filter BIO is freed and the function returns a NULL result indicating a failure. However, in this     case, the BIO chain is not properly cleaned up and the BIO passed by the caller still retains internal     pointers to the previously freed filter BIO. If the caller then goes on to call BIO_pop() on the BIO then     a use-after-free will occur. This will most likely result in a crash. This scenario occurs directly in the     internal function B64_write_ASN1() which may cause BIO_new_NDEF() to be called and will subsequently call     BIO_pop() on the BIO. This internal function is in turn called by the public API functions     PEM_write_bio_ASN1_stream, PEM_write_bio_CMS_stream, PEM_write_bio_PKCS7_stream, SMIME_write_ASN1,     SMIME_write_CMS and SMIME_write_PKCS7. Other public API functions that may be impacted by this include     i2d_ASN1_bio_stream, BIO_new_CMS, BIO_new_PKCS7, i2d_CMS_bio_stream and i2d_PKCS7_bio_stream. The OpenSSL     cms and smime command line applications are similarly affected. (CVE-2023-0215)

  - There is a type confusion vulnerability relating to X.400 address processing inside an X.509 GeneralName.
    X.400 addresses were parsed as an ASN1_STRING but the public structure definition for GENERAL_NAME     incorrectly specified the type of the x400Address field as ASN1_TYPE. This field is subsequently     interpreted by the OpenSSL function GENERAL_NAME_cmp as an ASN1_TYPE rather than an ASN1_STRING. When CRL     checking is enabled (i.e. the application sets the X509_V_FLAG_CRL_CHECK flag), this vulnerability may     allow an attacker to pass arbitrary pointers to a memcmp call, enabling them to read memory contents or     enact a denial of service. In most cases, the attack requires the attacker to provide both the certificate     chain and CRL, neither of which need to have a valid signature. If the attacker only controls one of these     inputs, the other input must already contain an X.400 address as a CRL distribution point, which is     uncommon. As such, this vulnerability is most likely to only affect applications which have implemented     their own functionality for retrieving CRLs over a network. (CVE-2023-0286)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:2165 advisory.

    EDK (Embedded Development Kit) is a project to enable UEFI support for Virtual Machines. This package     contains a sample 64-bit UEFI firmware for QEMU and KVM.

    Security Fix(es):

    * openssl: X.400 address type confusion in X.509 GeneralName (CVE-2023-0286)

    * edk2: integer underflow in SmmEntryPoint function leads to potential SMM privilege escalation     (CVE-2021-38578)

    * openssl: timing attack in RSA Decryption implementation (CVE-2022-4304)

    * openssl: double free after calling PEM_read_bio_ex (CVE-2022-4450)

    * openssl: use-after-free following BIO_new_NDEF (CVE-2023-0215)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the versions of the edk2 package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - An unlimited recursion in DxeCore in EDK II. (CVE-2021-28210)

  - NetworkPkg/IScsiDxe has remotely exploitable buffer overflows. (CVE-2021-38575)

  - Existing CommBuffer checks in SmmEntryPoint will not catch underflow when computing BufferSize.
    (CVE-2021-38578)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:1958-1 advisory.

  - Existing CommBuffer checks in SmmEntryPoint will not catch underflow when computing BufferSize.
    (CVE-2021-38578)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:1968-1 advisory.

  - Existing CommBuffer checks in SmmEntryPoint will not catch underflow when computing BufferSize.
    (CVE-2021-38578)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:1941-1 advisory.

  - Existing CommBuffer checks in SmmEntryPoint will not catch underflow when computing BufferSize.
    (CVE-2021-38578)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:1940-1 advisory.

  - Existing CommBuffer checks in SmmEntryPoint will not catch underflow when computing BufferSize.
    (CVE-2021-38578)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:1921-1 advisory.

  - Existing CommBuffer checks in SmmEntryPoint will not catch underflow when computing BufferSize.
    (CVE-2021-38578)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
208691	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : EDK II vulnerabilities (USN-7060-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
178870	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.6 : edk2 (EulerOS-SA-2023-2443)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
177133	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.0 : edk2 (EulerOS-SA-2023-2257)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
176839	EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.1 : edk2 (EulerOS-SA-2023-2083)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
176774	EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.0 : edk2 (EulerOS-SA-2023-2135)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
176061	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : ovmf (SUSE-SU-2023:2234-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
175790	EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.1 : edk2 (EulerOS-SA-2023-1914)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
175734	EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.0 : edk2 (EulerOS-SA-2023-1945)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
175719	Oracle Linux 9 : edk2 (ELSA-2023-2165)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	critical
175638	AlmaLinux 9 : edk2 (ALSA-2023:2165)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	critical
175445	RHEL 9 : edk2 (RHSA-2023:2165)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
175222	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.0 : edk2 (EulerOS-SA-2023-1689)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
174827	EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.1 : edk2 (EulerOS-SA-2023-1652)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
174815	EulerOS Virtualization 2.9.0 : edk2 (EulerOS-SA-2023-1686)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
174720	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : ovmf (SUSE-SU-2023:1958-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
174716	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : ovmf (SUSE-SU-2023:1968-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
174698	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : ovmf (SUSE-SU-2023:1941-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
174684	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : ovmf (SUSE-SU-2023:1940-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
174497	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : ovmf (SUSE-SU-2023:1921-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical

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