The Linux kernel io_uring IORING_OP_SOCKET operation contained a double free in function __sys_socket_file() in file net/socket.c. This issue was introduced in da214a475f8bd1d3e9e7a19ddfeb4d1617551bab and fixed in 649c15c7691e9b13cbe9bf6c65c365350e056067.

An update of the linux package has been released.

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6033-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the Traffic-Control Index (TCINDEX) implementation in the Linux kernel did not     properly perform filter deactivation in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to gain     elevated privileges. Please note that with the fix for this CVE, kernel support for the TCINDEX classifier     has been removed. (CVE-2023-1829)

    William Zhao discovered that the Traffic Control (TC) subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly     handle network packet retransmission in certain situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a     denial of service (kernel deadlock). (CVE-2022-4269)

    Thadeu Cascardo discovered that the io_uring subsystem contained a double- free vulnerability in certain     memory allocation error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service     (system crash). (CVE-2023-1032)

    It was discovered that the TUN/TAP driver in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize socket data. A     local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2023-1076)

    It was discovered that the Real-Time Scheduling Class implementation in the Linux kernel contained a type     confusion vulnerability in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service     (system crash). (CVE-2023-1077)

    It was discovered that the ASUS HID driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle device removal,     leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially     crafted USB device to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2023-1079)

    It was discovered that the io_uring subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly perform file table     updates in some situations, leading to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. A local attacker could     use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2023-1583)

    It was discovered that the Xircom PCMCIA network device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle     device removal events. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash). (CVE-2023-1670)

    It was discovered that the APM X-Gene SoC hardware monitoring driver in the Linux kernel contained a race     condition, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of     service (system crash) or expose sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2023-1855)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetooth HCI SDIO driver, leading to a use-after-     free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
    (CVE-2023-1989)

    It was discovered that the ST NCI NFC driver did not properly handle device removal events. A physically     proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2023-1990)

    Jose Oliveira and Rodrigo Branco discovered that the Spectre Variant 2 mitigations with prctl syscall were     insufficient in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information.
    (CVE-2023-1998)

    It was discovered that the BigBen Interactive Kids' gamepad driver in the Linux kernel did not properly     handle device removal, leading to a use- after-free vulnerability. A local attacker with physical access     could plug in a specially crafted USB device to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2023-25012)

    It was discovered that a race condition existed in the TLS subsystem in the Linux kernel, leading to a     use-after-free or a null pointer dereference vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a     denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-28466)

    It was discovered that the Bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize some data     structures, leading to an out-of-bounds access vulnerability in certain situations. An attacker could use     this to expose sensitive information (kernel memory). (CVE-2023-28866)

    Reima Ishii discovered that the nested KVM implementation for Intel x86 processors in the Linux kernel did     not properly validate control registers in certain situations. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to     cause a denial of service (guest crash). (CVE-2023-30456)

    Duoming Zhou discovered that a race condition existed in the infrared receiver/transceiver driver in the     Linux kernel, leading to a use-after- free vulnerability. A privileged attacker could use this to cause a     denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-1118)

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.

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6024-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the Traffic-Control Index (TCINDEX) implementation in the Linux kernel contained a     use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash)     or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-1281)

    Lin Ma discovered a race condition in the io_uring subsystem in the Linux kernel, leading to a null     pointer dereference vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash). (CVE-2023-0468)

    It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the SGI GRU driver in the Linux kernel. A     local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute     arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-3424)

    Hyunwoo Kim discovered that the DVB Core driver in the Linux kernel did not properly perform reference     counting in some situations, leading to a use- after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this     to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-41218)

    It was discovered that the network queuing discipline implementation in the Linux kernel contained a null     pointer dereference in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service     (system crash). (CVE-2022-47929)

    Thadeu Cascardo discovered that the io_uring subsystem contained a double- free vulnerability in certain     memory allocation error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service     (system crash). (CVE-2023-1032)

    It was discovered that the module decompression implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle     return values in certain error conditions. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service     (system crash). (CVE-2023-22997)

    Lianhui Tang discovered that the MPLS implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle certain     sysctl allocation failure conditions, leading to a double-free vulnerability. An attacker could use this     to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-26545)

    It was discovered that the NTFS file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle a     loop termination condition, leading to an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. A local attacker could use     this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly expose sensitive information.
    (CVE-2023-26606)

    Wei Chen discovered that the DVB USB AZ6027 driver in the Linux kernel contained a null pointer     dereference when handling certain messages from user space. A local attacker could use this to cause a     denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2023-28328)

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.

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5977-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the Traffic-Control Index (TCINDEX) implementation in the Linux kernel contained a     use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash)     or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-1281)

    It was discovered that the KVM VMX implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle indirect     branch prediction isolation between L1 and L2 VMs. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to expose     sensitive information from the host OS or other guest VMs. (CVE-2022-2196)

    Thadeu Cascardo discovered that the io_uring subsystem contained a double- free vulnerability in certain     memory allocation error conditions. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service     (system crash). (CVE-2023-1032)

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.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-138 advisory.

  - The Linux kernel io_uring IORING_OP_SOCKET operation contained a double free in function
    __sys_socket_file() in file net/socket.c. This issue was introduced in     da214a475f8bd1d3e9e7a19ddfeb4d1617551bab and fixed in 649c15c7691e9b13cbe9bf6c65c365350e056067.
    (CVE-2023-1032)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel. The tun/tap sockets have their socket UID hardcoded to 0 due to a     type confusion in their initialization function. While it will be often correct, as tuntap devices require     CAP_NET_ADMIN, it may not always be the case, e.g., a non-root user only having that capability. This     would make tun/tap sockets being incorrectly treated in filtering/routing decisions, possibly bypassing     network filters. (CVE-2023-1076)

  - In the Linux kernel, pick_next_rt_entity() may return a type confused entry, not detected by the BUG_ON     condition, as the confused entry will not be NULL, but list_head.The buggy error condition would lead to a     type confused entry with the list head,which would then be used as a type confused sched_rt_entity,causing     memory corruption. (CVE-2023-1077)

  - A flaw use after free in the Linux kernel integrated infrared receiver/transceiver driver was found in the     way user detaching rc device. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or potentially escalate     their privileges on the system. (CVE-2023-1118)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux Kernel traffic control index filter (tcindex) can be exploited     to achieve local privilege escalation. The tcindex_delete function which does not properly deactivate     filters in case of a perfect hashes while deleting the underlying structure which can later lead to double     freeing the structure. A local attacker user can use this vulnerability to elevate its privileges to root.
    We recommend upgrading past commit 8c710f75256bb3cf05ac7b1672c82b92c43f3d28. (CVE-2023-1829)

  - The Linux kernel allows userspace processes to enable mitigations by calling prctl with     PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL which disables the speculation feature as well as by using seccomp. We had noticed     that on VMs of at least one major cloud provider, the kernel still left the victim process exposed to     attacks in some cases even after enabling the spectre-BTI mitigation with prctl. The same behavior can be     observed on a bare-metal machine when forcing the mitigation to IBRS on boot command line. This happened     because when plain IBRS was enabled (not enhanced IBRS), the kernel had some logic that determined that     STIBP was not needed. The IBRS bit implicitly protects against cross-thread branch target injection.
    However, with legacy IBRS, the IBRS bit was cleared on returning to userspace, due to performance reasons,     which disabled the implicit STIBP and left userspace threads vulnerable to cross-thread branch target     injection against which STIBP protects. (CVE-2023-1998)

  - A use after free flaw was found in hfsplus_put_super in fs/hfsplus/super.c in the Linux Kernel. This flaw     could allow a local user to cause a denial of service problem. (CVE-2023-2985)

  - An issue was discovered in lib/kobject.c in the Linux kernel before 6.2.3. With root access, an attacker     can trigger a race condition that results in a fill_kobj_path out-of-bounds write. (CVE-2023-45863)

  - A memory leak problem was found in ctnetlink_create_conntrack in net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c in     the Linux Kernel. This issue may allow a local attacker with CAP_NET_ADMIN privileges to cause a denial of     service (DoS) attack due to a refcount overflow. (CVE-2023-7192)

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
203573	Photon OS 5.0: Linux PHSA-2023-5.0-0009	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	critical
174484	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities (USN-6033-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
174449	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6024-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
173441	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities (USN-5977-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
173340	Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool, kernel, kernel-devel (ALAS2023-2023-138)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high

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