A flaw was found in vDPA with VDUSE backend. There are currently no checks in VDUSE kernel driver to ensure the size of the device config space is in line with the features advertised by the VDUSE userspace application. In case of a mismatch, Virtio drivers config read helpers do not initialize the memory indirectly passed to vduse_vdpa_get_config() returning uninitialized memory from the stack. This could cause undefined behavior or data leaks in Virtio drivers.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A flaw was found in vDPA with VDUSE backend. There are currently no checks in VDUSE kernel driver to     ensure the size of the device config space is in line with the features advertised by the VDUSE userspace     application. In case of a mismatch, Virtio drivers config read helpers do not initialize the memory     indirectly passed to vduse_vdpa_get_config() returning uninitialized memory from the stack. This could     cause undefined behavior or data leaks in Virtio drivers. (CVE-2022-2308)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of kernel-generic installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.80 / 5.15.80_smp. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SSA:2022-333-01 advisory.

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The existing KVM SEV API has a vulnerability that allows a non-root     (host) user-level application to crash the host kernel by creating a confidential guest VM instance in AMD     CPU that supports Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). (CVE-2022-0171)

  - In binder_inc_ref_for_node of binder.c, there is a possible way to corrupt memory due to a use after free.
    This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User     interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android kernelAndroid ID:
    A-239630375References: Upstream kernel (CVE-2022-20421)

  - A flaw was found in vDPA with VDUSE backend. There are currently no checks in VDUSE kernel driver to     ensure the size of the device config space is in line with the features advertised by the VDUSE userspace     application. In case of a mismatch, Virtio drivers config read helpers do not initialize the memory     indirectly passed to vduse_vdpa_get_config() returning uninitialized memory from the stack. This could     cause undefined behavior or data leaks in Virtio drivers. (CVE-2022-2308)

  - An issue was found in the Linux kernel in nf_conntrack_irc where the message handling can be confused and     incorrectly matches the message. A firewall may be able to be bypassed when users are using unencrypted     IRC with nf_conntrack_irc configured. (CVE-2022-2663)

  - An out-of-bounds memory read flaw was found in the Linux kernel's BPF subsystem in how a user calls the     bpf_tail_call function with a key larger than the max_entries of the map. This flaw allows a local user to     gain unauthorized access to data. (CVE-2022-2905)

  - A flaw use after free in the Linux kernel NILFS file system was found in the way user triggers function     security_inode_alloc to fail with following call to function nilfs_mdt_destroy. A local user could use     this flaw to crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2022-2978)

  - A race condition was found in the Linux kernel's IP framework for transforming packets (XFRM subsystem)     when multiple calls to xfrm_probe_algs occurred simultaneously. This flaw could allow a local attacker to     potentially trigger an out-of-bounds write or leak kernel heap memory by performing an out-of-bounds read     and copying it into a socket. (CVE-2022-3028)

  - Found Linux Kernel flaw in the i740 driver. The Userspace program could pass any values to the driver     through ioctl() interface. The driver doesn't check the value of 'pixclock', so it may cause a divide by     zero error. (CVE-2022-3061)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A denial of service flaw may occur if there is a consecutive request     of the NVME_IOCTL_RESET and the NVME_IOCTL_SUBSYS_RESET through the device file of the driver, resulting     in a PCIe link disconnect. (CVE-2022-3169)

  - There exists a use-after-free in io_uring in the Linux kernel. Signalfd_poll() and binder_poll() use a     waitqueue whose lifetime is the current task. It will send a POLLFREE notification to all waiters before     the queue is freed. Unfortunately, the io_uring poll doesn't handle POLLFREE. This allows a use-after-free     to occur if a signalfd or binder fd is polled with io_uring poll, and the waitqueue gets freed. We     recommend upgrading past commit fc78b2fc21f10c4c9c4d5d659a685710ffa63659 (CVE-2022-3176)

  - A race condition flaw was found in the Linux kernel sound subsystem due to improper locking. It could lead     to a NULL pointer dereference while handling the SNDCTL_DSP_SYNC ioctl. A privileged local user (root or     member of the audio group) could use this flaw to crash the system, resulting in a denial of service     condition (CVE-2022-3303)

  - A vulnerability has been found in Linux Kernel and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects     the function kcm_tx_work of the file net/kcm/kcmsock.c of the component kcm. The manipulation leads to     race condition. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-211018 is the identifier     assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3521)

  - A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this     vulnerability is the function ipv6_renew_options of the component IPv6 Handler. The manipulation leads to     memory leak. The attack can be launched remotely. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
    The identifier VDB-211021 was assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3524)

  - A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Linux Kernel. Affected by this vulnerability is the     function mvpp2_dbgfs_port_init of the file drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_debugfs.c of the     component mvpp2. The manipulation leads to memory leak. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this     issue. The identifier VDB-211033 was assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3535)

  - A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Linux Kernel. This vulnerability affects the     function bnx2x_tpa_stop of the file drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c of the component BPF.
    The manipulation leads to memory leak. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-211042 is     the identifier assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3542)

  - A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Linux Kernel. This issue affects     the function unix_sock_destructor/unix_release_sock of the file net/unix/af_unix.c of the component BPF.
    The manipulation leads to memory leak. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The     associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-211043. (CVE-2022-3543)

  - A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Linux Kernel. Affected by this vulnerability is the     function l2cap_reassemble_sdu of the file net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c of the component Bluetooth. The     manipulation leads to use after free. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The associated     identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-211087. (CVE-2022-3564)

  - A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Linux Kernel. Affected by this issue     is the function del_timer of the file drivers/isdn/mISDN/l1oip_core.c of the component Bluetooth. The     manipulation leads to use after free. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier     of this vulnerability is VDB-211088. (CVE-2022-3565)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's networking code. A use-after-free was found in the way the sch_sfb     enqueue function used the socket buffer (SKB) cb field after the same SKB had been enqueued (and freed)     into a child qdisc. This flaw allows a local, unprivileged user to crash the system, causing a denial of     service. (CVE-2022-3586)

  - A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this     vulnerability is the function intr_callback of the file drivers/net/usb/r8152.c of the component BPF. The     manipulation leads to logging of excessive data. The attack can be launched remotely. It is recommended to     apply a patch to fix this issue. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-211363.
    (CVE-2022-3594)

  - A vulnerability has been found in Linux Kernel and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects     the function l2cap_recv_acldata of the file net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c of the component Bluetooth. The     manipulation leads to memory leak. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-211918 is the     identifier assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3619)

  - A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is the function     nilfs_bmap_lookup_at_level of the file fs/nilfs2/inode.c of the component nilfs2. The manipulation leads     to null pointer dereference. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. It is recommended to apply a     patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-211920. (CVE-2022-3621)

  - A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this     vulnerability is the function follow_page_pte of the file mm/gup.c of the component BPF. The manipulation     leads to race condition. The attack can be launched remotely. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix     this issue. The identifier VDB-211921 was assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3623)

  - A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function     devlink_param_set/devlink_param_get of the file net/core/devlink.c of the component IPsec. The     manipulation leads to use after free. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier     VDB-211929 was assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3625)

  - A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects     the function vsock_connect of the file net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c of the component IPsec. The manipulation     leads to memory leak. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-211930 is the identifier     assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3629)

  - A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Linux Kernel. Affected is the function     j1939_session_destroy of the file net/can/j1939/transport.c of the component IPsec. The manipulation leads     to memory leak. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability     is VDB-211932. (CVE-2022-3633)

  - A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Linux Kernel. Affected by this issue     is the function tst_timer of the file drivers/atm/idt77252.c of the component IPsec. The manipulation     leads to use after free. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-211934 is the     identifier assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3635)

  - A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Linux Kernel. This issue affects     the function nilfs_attach_log_writer of the file fs/nilfs2/segment.c of the component BPF. The     manipulation leads to memory leak. The attack may be initiated remotely. It is recommended to apply a     patch to fix this issue. The identifier VDB-211961 was assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3646)

  - A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is the function     nilfs_new_inode of the file fs/nilfs2/inode.c of the component BPF. The manipulation leads to use after     free. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
    The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-211992. (CVE-2022-3649)

  - An issue was discovered in net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c in the Linux kernel before 5.19.6. A denial of     service can occur upon binding to an already bound chain. (CVE-2022-39190)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.19. In pxa3xx_gcu_write in     drivers/video/fbdev/pxa3xx-gcu.c, the count parameter has a type conflict of size_t versus int, causing an     integer overflow and bypassing the size check. After that, because it is used as the third argument to     copy_from_user(), a heap overflow may occur. (CVE-2022-39842)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.19.8. drivers/firmware/efi/capsule-loader.c has a     race condition with a resultant use-after-free. (CVE-2022-40307)

  - drivers/scsi/stex.c in the Linux kernel through 5.19.9 allows local users to obtain sensitive information     from kernel memory because stex_queuecommand_lck lacks a memset for the PASSTHRU_CMD case.
    (CVE-2022-40768)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.19.16. Attackers able to inject WLAN frames could     cause a buffer overflow in the ieee80211_bss_info_update function in net/mac80211/scan.c. (CVE-2022-41674)

  - drivers/video/fbdev/smscufx.c in the Linux kernel through 5.19.12 has a race condition and resultant use-     after-free if a physically proximate attacker removes a USB device while calling open(), aka a race     condition between ufx_ops_open and ufx_usb_disconnect. (CVE-2022-41849)

  - roccat_report_event in drivers/hid/hid-roccat.c in the Linux kernel through 5.19.12 has a race condition     and resultant use-after-free in certain situations where a report is received while copying a     report->value is in progress. (CVE-2022-41850)

  - mm/rmap.c in the Linux kernel before 5.19.7 has a use-after-free related to leaf anon_vma double reuse.
    (CVE-2022-42703)

  - A use-after-free in the mac80211 stack when parsing a multi-BSSID element in the Linux kernel 5.2 through     5.19.x before 5.19.16 could be used by attackers (able to inject WLAN frames) to crash the kernel and     potentially execute code. (CVE-2022-42719)

  - Various refcounting bugs in the multi-BSS handling in the mac80211 stack in the Linux kernel 5.1 through     5.19.x before 5.19.16 could be used by local attackers (able to inject WLAN frames) to trigger use-after-     free conditions to potentially execute code. (CVE-2022-42720)

  - A list management bug in BSS handling in the mac80211 stack in the Linux kernel 5.1 through 5.19.x before     5.19.16 could be used by local attackers (able to inject WLAN frames) to corrupt a linked list and, in     turn, potentially execute code. (CVE-2022-42721)

  - In the Linux kernel 5.8 through 5.19.x before 5.19.16, local attackers able to inject WLAN frames into the     mac80211 stack could cause a NULL pointer dereference denial-of-service attack against the beacon     protection of P2P devices. (CVE-2022-42722)

  - There is an infoleak vulnerability in the Linux kernel's net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c's l2cap_parse_conf_req     function which can be used to leak kernel pointers remotely. We recommend upgrading past commit     https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b1a2cd50c0357f243b7435a732b4e62ba3157a2e     https://www.google.com/url (CVE-2022-42895)

  - There are use-after-free vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel's net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c's l2cap_connect     and l2cap_le_connect_req functions which may allow code execution and leaking kernel memory (respectively)     remotely via Bluetooth. A remote attacker could execute code leaking kernel memory via Bluetooth if within     proximity of the victim. We recommend upgrading past commit https://www.google.com/url     https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/711f8c3fb3db61897080468586b970c87c61d9e4     https://www.google.com/url (CVE-2022-42896)

  - drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c in usbmon in the Linux kernel before 5.19.15 and 6.x before 6.0.1 allows a user-     space client to corrupt the monitor's internal memory. (CVE-2022-43750)

  - The Linux kernel NFSD implementation prior to versions 5.19.17 and 6.0.2 are vulnerable to buffer     overflow. NFSD tracks the number of pages held by each NFSD thread by combining the receive and send     buffers of a remote procedure call (RPC) into a single array of pages. A client can force the send buffer     to shrink by sending an RPC message over TCP with garbage data added at the end of the message. The RPC     message with garbage data is still correctly formed according to the specification and is passed forward     to handlers. Vulnerable code in NFSD is not expecting the oversized request and writes beyond the     allocated buffer space. CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H (CVE-2022-43945)

  - A flaw was found in hw. Mis-trained branch predictions for return instructions may allow arbitrary     speculative code execution under certain microarchitecture-dependent conditions. (CVE-2022-23816)     (CVE-2022-2602)

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

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.73-48.135. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2022-009 advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2022-48671 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-27: CVE-2022-48672 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-01: CVE-2022-48643 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-01: CVE-2022-48660 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-01: CVE-2022-48639 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-01: CVE-2022-48657 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-01: CVE-2022-48642 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-01: CVE-2022-48644 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-01: CVE-2022-48640 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-01: CVE-2022-48664 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-01: CVE-2022-48641 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-01: CVE-2022-48638 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-01: CVE-2022-48654 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-01: CVE-2022-48631 was added to this advisory.

    2024-08-01: CVE-2022-48659 was added to this advisory.

    2024-06-06: CVE-2022-48651 was added to this advisory.

    2024-06-06: CVE-2022-48658 was added to this advisory.

    2024-06-06: CVE-2022-48662 was added to this advisory.

    A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The existing KVM SEV API has a vulnerability that allows a non-root     (host) user-level application to crash the host kernel by creating a confidential guest VM instance in AMD     CPU that supports Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). (CVE-2022-0171)

    A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in vDPA with VDUSE backend. There were no checks in VDUSE kernel     driver to ensure the size of the device config space was in line with the features advertised by the VDUSE     userspace application. In case of a mismatch, Virtio drivers config read helpers did not initialize the     memory indirectly passed to vduse_vdpa_get_config() returning uninitialized memory from the stack. Such     memory was not directly propagated to userspace, although under some circumstances it could be printed in     the kernel logs. (CVE-2022-2308)

    A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Unix socket Garbage Collection and io_uring. This     flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2022-2602)

    A flaw use after free in the Linux kernel NILFS file system was found in the way user triggers function     security_inode_alloc to fail with following call to function nilfs_mdt_destroy. A local user could use     this flaw to crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2022-2978)

    Found Linux Kernel flaw in the i740 driver. The Userspace program could pass any values to the driver     through ioctl() interface. The driver doesn't check the value of 'pixclock', so it may cause a divide by     zero error. (CVE-2022-3061)

    An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.19. In pxa3xx_gcu_write in     drivers/video/fbdev/pxa3xx-gcu.c, the count parameter has a type conflict of size_t versus int, causing an     integer overflow and bypassing the size check. After that, because it is used as the third argument to     copy_from_user(), a heap overflow may occur. (CVE-2022-39842)

    This vulnerability allows local attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of     the Linux Kernel 6.0-rc2. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute high-privileged code on the     target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the nft_osf_eval     function. The issue results from the lack of proper initialization of memory prior to accessing it. An     attacker can leverage this in conjunction with other vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code in the     context of the kernel. Was ZDI-CAN-18540. (CVE-2022-42432)

    drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c in usbmon in the Linux kernel before 5.19.15 and 6.x before 6.0.1 allows a user-     space client to corrupt the monitor's internal memory. (CVE-2022-43750)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ext4: fix bug in extents parsing when eh_entries == 0 and eh_depth > 0 (CVE-2022-48631)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    cgroup: cgroup_get_from_id() must check the looked-up kn is a directory (CVE-2022-48638)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    net: sched: fix possible refcount leak in tc_new_tfilter() (CVE-2022-48639)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    bonding: fix NULL deref in bond_rr_gen_slave_id (CVE-2022-48640)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    netfilter: ebtables: fix memory leak when blob is malformed (CVE-2022-48641)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    netfilter: nf_tables: fix percpu memory leak at nf_tables_addchain() (CVE-2022-48642)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    netfilter: nf_tables: fix nft_counters_enabled underflow at nf_tables_addchain() (CVE-2022-48643)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    net/sched: taprio: avoid disabling offload when it was never enabled (CVE-2022-48644)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipvlan: Fix out-of-bound bugs caused     by unset skb->mac_header If an AF_PACKET socket is used to send packets through ipvlan and the default     xmit function of the AF_PACKET socket is changed from dev_queue_xmit() to packet_direct_xmit() via     setsockopt() with the option name of PACKET_QDISC_BYPASS, the skb->mac_header may not be reset and remains     as the initial value of 65535, this may trigger slab-out-of-bounds bugs as following: (CVE-2022-48651)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    netfilter: nfnetlink_osf: fix possible bogus match in nf_osf_find() (CVE-2022-48654)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    arm64: topology: fix possible overflow in amu_fie_setup() (CVE-2022-48657)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: slub: fix     flush_cpu_slab()/__free_slab() invocations in task context. Commit 5a836bf6b09f (mm: slub: move     flush_cpu_slab() invocations __free_slab() invocations out of IRQ context) moved all flush_cpu_slab()     invocations to the global workqueue to avoid a problem related with deactivate_slab()/__free_slab() being     called from an IRQ context on PREEMPT_RT kernels. (CVE-2022-48658)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    mm/slub: fix to return errno if kmalloc() fails (CVE-2022-48659)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    gpiolib: cdev: Set lineevent_state::irq after IRQ register successfully (CVE-2022-48660)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/i915/gem: Really move     i915_gem_context.link under ref protection i915_perf assumes that it can use the i915_gem_context     reference to protect its i915->gem.contexts.list iteration. However, this requires that we do not remove     the context from the list until after we drop the final reference and release the struct. If, as     currently, we remove the context from the list during context_close(), the link.next pointer may be     poisoned while we are holding the context reference and cause a GPF (CVE-2022-48662)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    btrfs: fix hang during unmount when stopping a space reclaim worker (CVE-2022-48664)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    cgroup: Add missing cpus_read_lock() to cgroup_attach_task_all() (CVE-2022-48671)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    of: fdt: fix off-by-one error in unflatten_dt_nodes() (CVE-2022-48672)

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

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
230043	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-2308	Nessus	Misc.	medium
168270	Slackware Linux 15.0 kernel-generic Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSA:2022-333-01)	Nessus	Slackware Local Security Checks	high
166501	Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALASKERNEL-5.15-2022-009)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high

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