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Virtuozzo 7 : kernel / kernel-abi-whitelists / kernel-debug / etc (VZLSA-2017-0933)
high Nessus Plugin ID 101449
Synopsis
The remote Virtuozzo host is missing a security update.Description
An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
These updated kernel packages include several security issues and numerous bug fixes. Space precludes documenting all of these bug fixes in this advisory. To see the complete list of bug fixes, users are directed to the related Knowledge Article:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/2986951.
Security Fix(es) :
* A race condition flaw was found in the N_HLDC Linux kernel driver when accessing n_hdlc.tbuf list that can lead to double free. A local, unprivileged user able to set the HDLC line discipline on the tty device could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the system.
(CVE-2017-2636, Important)
* A flaw was found in the Linux kernel key management subsystem in which a local attacker could crash the kernel or corrupt the stack and additional memory (denial of service) by supplying a specially crafted RSA key. This flaw panics the machine during the verification of the RSA key. (CVE-2016-8650, Moderate)
* A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of setsockopt for the SO_{SND|RCV}BUFFORCE setsockopt() system call. Users with non-namespace CAP_NET_ADMIN are able to trigger this call and create a situation in which the sockets sendbuff data size could be negative.
This could adversely affect memory allocations and create situations where the system could crash or cause memory corruption.
(CVE-2016-9793, Moderate)
* A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handling of clearing SELinux attributes on /proc/pid/attr files. An empty (null) write to this file can crash the system by causing the system to attempt to access unmapped kernel memory. (CVE-2017-2618, Moderate)
Red Hat would like to thank Alexander Popov for reporting CVE-2017-2636 and Ralf Spenneberg for reporting CVE-2016-8650. The CVE-2017-2618 issue was discovered by Paul Moore (Red Hat Engineering).
Note that Tenable Network Security has attempted to extract the preceding description block directly from the corresponding Red Hat security advisory. Virtuozzo provides no description for VZLSA advisories. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected kernel / kernel-abi-whitelists / kernel-debug / etc package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 101449
File Name: Virtuozzo_VZLSA-2017-0933.nasl
Version: 1.8
Type: local
Family: Virtuozzo Local Security Checks
Published: 7/13/2017
Updated: 1/4/2021
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: High
Score: 7.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.2
Temporal Score: 6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.8
Temporal Score: 7.2
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:kernel, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:kernel-abi-whitelists, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:kernel-doc, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:kernel-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:kernel-tools-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:perf, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:python-perf, cpe:/o:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:7
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Virtuozzo/release, Host/Virtuozzo/rpm-list
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 4/13/2017
Exploitable With
Core Impact
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2016-8650, CVE-2016-9793, CVE-2017-2618, CVE-2017-2636