Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi software may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:3939 advisory.

  - Improper access control for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi and Killer(TM) WiFi software may allow a     privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. (CVE-2022-27635,     CVE-2022-40964)

  - Improper input validation in some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi and Killer(TM) WiFi software may allow an     unauthenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via adjacent access. (CVE-2022-36351)

  - Improper input validation in some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi and Killer(TM) WiFi software may allow an     authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. (CVE-2022-38076)

  - Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi software may allow a privileged user     to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. (CVE-2022-46329)

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 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4575 advisory.

    The linux-firmware packages contain all of the firmware files that are required by various devices to     operate.

    Security Fix(es):

    * hw: intel: Improper access control for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi (CVE-2022-27635)

    * hw: intel: Improper access control for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi (CVE-2022-40964)

    * hw: intel: Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi (CVE-2022-46329)

    * hw: amd: INVD instruction may lead to a loss of SEV-ES guest machine memory integrity problem     (CVE-2023-20592)

    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.

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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:3939 advisory.

    The linux-firmware packages contain all of the firmware files that are required by various devices to     operate.

    Security Fix(es):

    * hw: intel: Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi (CVE-2022-46329)

    * hw: intel: Improper access control for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi (CVE-2022-27635)

    * hw: intel: Improper access control for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi (CVE-2022-40964)

    * hw: intel: Improper input validation in some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi (CVE-2022-36351)

    * hw: intel: Improper input validation in some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi (CVE-2022-38076)

    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.

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.

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-3178 advisory.

    [20240415-999.32.git5da74b16.el8]
    - Rebase to latest upstream [Orabug: 36482906]

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 Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:3422 advisory.

    The linux-firmware packages contain all of the firmware files that are required by various devices to     operate.

    Security Fix(es):

    * linux-firmware: hw: intel: Improper access control for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi     (CVE-2022-27635)

    * linux-firmware: hw: intel: Improper access control for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi     (CVE-2022-40964)

    * linux-firmware: hw: intel: Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi     (CVE-2022-46329)

    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.

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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:3178 advisory.

    The linux-firmware packages contain all of the firmware files that are required by various devices to     operate.

    Security Fix(es):

    * hw: intel: Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi (CVE-2022-46329)

    * hw: amd: INVD instruction may lead to a loss of SEV-ES guest machine memory integrity problem     (CVE-2023-20592)

    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 8.10 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.

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2024:3178 advisory.

  - Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi software may allow a privileged user     to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. (CVE-2022-46329)

  - Improper or unexpected behavior of the INVD instruction in some AMD CPUs may allow an attacker with a     malicious hypervisor to affect cache line write-back behavior of the CPU leading to a potential loss of     guest virtual machine (VM) memory integrity. (CVE-2023-20592)

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 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2583 advisory.

    The linux-firmware packages contain all of the firmware files that are required by various devices to     operate.

    Security Fix(es):

    * hw: intel: Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi (CVE-2022-46329)

    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.

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

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

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the linux- firmware-20231030-141.el9 build changelog.

  - Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi (RHEL-14264) (CVE-2022-46329)

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1112 advisory.

    The linux-firmware packages contain all of the firmware files that are required by various devices to     operate.

    Security Fix(es):

    * hw: intel: Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi (CVE-2022-46329)

    * hw: amd: INVD instruction may lead to a loss of SEV-ES guest machine memory integrity problem     (CVE-2023-20592)

    Bug Fix(es):

    * linux-firmware: hw: intel: Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi     (RHEL-14257)

    * linux-firmware: hw: amd: INVD instruction may lead to a loss of SEV-ES guest machine memory integrity     problem (RHEL-13978)

    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.

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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0577 advisory.

    The linux-firmware packages contain all of the firmware files that are required by various devices to     operate.

    Security Fix(es):

    * hw: intel: Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi (CVE-2022-46329)

    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.

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-2024:0449 advisory.

    The linux-firmware packages contain all of the firmware files that are required by various devices to     operate.

    Security Fix(es):

    * hw: intel: Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi (CVE-2022-46329)

    * hw amd: Return Address Predictor vulnerability leading to information disclosure (CVE-2023-20569)

    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.

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.

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2023-6595 advisory.

  - Improper access control for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi and Killer(TM) WiFi software may allow a     privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. (CVE-2022-27635,     CVE-2022-40964)

  - A side channel vulnerability on some of the AMD CPUs may allow an attacker to influence the return address     prediction. This may result in speculative execution at an attacker-controlled?address, potentially     leading to information disclosure. (CVE-2023-20569)

  - Improper input validation in some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi and Killer(TM) WiFi software may allow an     authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. (CVE-2022-38076)

  - Improper input validation in some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi and Killer(TM) WiFi software may allow an     unauthenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via adjacent access. (CVE-2022-36351)

  - Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi software may allow a privileged user     to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. (CVE-2022-46329)

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

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-dd3ebcea25 advisory.

  - Improper access control for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi and Killer(TM) WiFi software may allow a     privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. (CVE-2022-27635,     CVE-2022-40964)

  - Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi software may allow a privileged user     to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. (CVE-2022-46329)

  - Improper input validation in some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi and Killer(TM) WiFi software may allow an     unauthenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via adjacent access. (CVE-2022-36351)

  - Improper input validation in some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi and Killer(TM) WiFi software may allow an     authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. (CVE-2022-38076)

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-2023:6595 advisory.

  - hw: intel: Improper access control for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi (CVE-2022-27635, CVE-2022-40964)

  - hw: intel: Improper input validation in some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi (CVE-2022-36351,     CVE-2022-38076)

  - hw: intel: Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi (CVE-2022-46329)

  - hw amd: Return Address Predictor vulnerability leading to information disclosure (CVE-2023-20569)

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

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3596 advisory.

  - Improper access control for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi and Killer(TM) WiFi software may allow a     privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. (CVE-2022-27635,     CVE-2022-40964)

  - Improper input validation in some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi and Killer(TM) WiFi software may allow an     unauthenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via adjacent access. (CVE-2022-36351)

  - Improper input validation in some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi and Killer(TM) WiFi software may allow an     authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. (CVE-2022-38076)

  - Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi software may allow a privileged user     to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. (CVE-2022-46329)

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

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-defb0a89ff advisory.

  - Improper access control for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi and Killer(TM) WiFi software may allow a     privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. (CVE-2022-27635,     CVE-2022-40964)

  - Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi software may allow a privileged user     to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. (CVE-2022-46329)

  - Improper input validation in some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi and Killer(TM) WiFi software may allow an     unauthenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via adjacent access. (CVE-2022-36351)

  - Improper input validation in some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi and Killer(TM) WiFi software may allow an     authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. (CVE-2022-38076)

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

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-4056a5c165 advisory.

  - Improper access control for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi and Killer(TM) WiFi software may allow a     privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. (CVE-2022-27635,     CVE-2022-40964)

  - Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi software may allow a privileged user     to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. (CVE-2022-46329)

  - Improper input validation in some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi and Killer(TM) WiFi software may allow an     unauthenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via adjacent access. (CVE-2022-36351)

  - Improper input validation in some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi and Killer(TM) WiFi software may allow an     authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. (CVE-2022-38076)

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
204712	CentOS 7 : linux-firmware (RHSA-2024:3939)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
202500	RHEL 8 : linux-firmware (RHSA-2024:4575)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
200649	RHEL 7 : linux-firmware (RHSA-2024:3939)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
198040	Oracle Linux 8 : linux-firmware (ELSA-2024-3178)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
197982	RHEL 9 : linux-firmware (RHSA-2024:3422)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
197772	RHEL 8 : linux-firmware (RHSA-2024:3178)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
197657	CentOS 8 : linux-firmware (CESA-2024:3178)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
194834	RHEL 8 : linux-firmware (RHSA-2024:2583)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
193935	CentOS 9 : linux-firmware-20231030-141.el9	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
191580	RHEL 8 : linux-firmware (RHSA-2024:1112)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
189797	RHEL 8 : linux-firmware (RHSA-2024:0577)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
189575	RHEL 9 : linux-firmware (RHSA-2024:0449)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
185816	Oracle Linux 9 : linux-firmware (ELSA-2023-6595)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
185233	Fedora 39 : linux-firmware (2023-dd3ebcea25)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
185122	RHEL 9 : linux-firmware (RHSA-2023:6595)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
182408	Debian DLA-3596-1 : firmware-nonfree - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
181865	Fedora 37 : linux-firmware (2023-defb0a89ff)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
181816	Fedora 38 : linux-firmware (2023-4056a5c165)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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