An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel brcm_nvram_parse in drivers/nvmem/brcm_nvram.c. Lacks for the check of the return value of kzalloc() can cause the NULL Pointer Dereference.

An update of the linux package has been released.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-132 advisory.

    2024-12-05: CVE-2023-52739 was added to this advisory.

    2024-11-13: CVE-2023-52741 was added to this advisory.

    2024-06-19: CVE-2023-52746 was added to this advisory.

    2023-11-09: CVE-2023-3567 was added to this advisory.

    2023-10-10: CVE-2023-3359 was added to this advisory.

    It has been discovered that on some AMD CPUs, the RAS (Return Address Stack, also called RAP - Return     Address Predictor - in some AMD documentation, and RSB - Return Stack Buffer - in Intel terminology) is     dynamically partitioned between non-idle threads.  This allows an attacker to control speculative     execution on the adjacent thread. (CVE-2022-27672)

    The upstream bug report describes this issue as follows:

    A flaw found in the Linux Kernel in RDS (Reliable Datagram Sockets) protocol. The     rds_rm_zerocopy_callback() uses list_entry() on the head of a list causing a type confusion. Local user     can trigger this with rds_message_put(). Type confusion leads to `struct rds_msg_zcopy_info *info`     actually points to something else that is potentially controlled by local user. It is known how to trigger     this, which causes an OOB access, and a lock corruption. (CVE-2023-1078)

    A flaw was found in the Framebuffer Console (fbcon) in the Linux Kernel. When providing a font->width and     font->height greater than 32 to the fbcon_set_font, since there are no checks in place, a shift-out-of-     bounds occurs, leading to undefined behavior and possible denial of service. (CVE-2023-3161)

    brcm_nvram_parse in drivers/nvmem/brcm_nvram.c lacks check of the return value of kzalloc() and will cause     the NULL Pointer Dereference (CVE-2023-3359)

    A use-after-free flaw was found in vcs_read in drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c in vc_screen in the Linux     Kernel. In this flaw an attacker with local user access may lead to a system crash or a leak of internal     kernel information. (CVE-2023-3567)

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

    Fix page corruption caused by racy check in __free_pages (CVE-2023-52739)

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

    cifs: Fix use-after-free in rdata->read_into_pages() (CVE-2023-52741)

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

    xfrm/compat: prevent potential spectre v1 gadget in xfrm_xlate32_attr() (CVE-2023-52746)

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
203573	Photon OS 5.0: Linux PHSA-2023-5.0-0009	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	critical
173140	Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool, kernel, kernel-devel (ALAS2023-2023-132)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
151965	Photon OS 4.0: Linux PHSA-2021-4.0-0065	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	critical

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