The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1062 advisory.

    The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

    Security Fix(es):

    * hw: cpu: speculative execution permission faults handling (CVE-2017-5754, Important, KVM for Power)

    * kernel: Buffer overflow in firewire driver via crafted incoming packets (CVE-2016-8633, Important)

    * kernel: Use-after-free vulnerability in DCCP socket (CVE-2017-8824, Important)

    * Kernel: kvm: nVMX: L2 guest could access hardware(L0) CR8 register (CVE-2017-12154, Important)

    * kernel: v4l2: disabled memory access protection mechanism allowing privilege escalation (CVE-2017-13166,     Important)

    * kernel: media: use-after-free in [tuner-xc2028] media driver (CVE-2016-7913, Moderate)

    * kernel: drm/vmwgfx: fix integer overflow in vmw_surface_define_ioctl() (CVE-2017-7294, Moderate)

    * kernel: Incorrect type conversion for size during dma allocation (CVE-2017-9725, Moderate)

    * kernel: memory leak when merging buffers in SCSI IO vectors (CVE-2017-12190, Moderate)

    * kernel: vfs: BUG in truncate_inode_pages_range() and fuse client (CVE-2017-15121, Moderate)

    * kernel: Use-after-free in userfaultfd_event_wait_completion function in userfaultfd.c (CVE-2017-15126,     Moderate)

    * kernel: net: double-free and memory corruption in get_net_ns_by_id() (CVE-2017-15129, Moderate)

    * kernel: Use-after-free in snd_seq_ioctl_create_port() (CVE-2017-15265, Moderate)

    * kernel: Missing capabilities check in net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c allows for unprivileged access     to systemwide nfnl_cthelper_list structure (CVE-2017-17448, Moderate)

    * kernel: Missing namespace check in net/netlink/af_netlink.c allows for network monitors to observe     systemwide activity (CVE-2017-17449, Moderate)

    * kernel: Unallocated memory access by malicious USB device via bNumInterfaces overflow (CVE-2017-17558,     Moderate)

    * kernel: netfilter: use-after-free in tcpmss_mangle_packet function in net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c     (CVE-2017-18017, Moderate)

    * kernel: Race condition in drivers/md/dm.c:dm_get_from_kobject() allows local users to cause a denial of     service (CVE-2017-18203, Moderate)

    * kernel: kvm: Reachable BUG() on out-of-bounds guest IRQ (CVE-2017-1000252, Moderate)

    * Kernel: KVM: DoS via write flood to I/O port 0x80 (CVE-2017-1000407, Moderate)

    * kernel: Stack information leak in the EFS element (CVE-2017-1000410, Moderate)

    * kernel: Kernel address information leak in drivers/acpi/sbshc.c:acpi_smbus_hc_add() function potentially     allowing KASLR bypass (CVE-2018-5750, Moderate)

    * kernel: Race condition in sound system can lead to denial of service (CVE-2018-1000004, Moderate)

     * kernel: multiple Low security impact security issues (CVE-2016-3672, CVE-2017-14140, CVE-2017-15116,     CVE-2017-15127, CVE-2018-6927, Low)

    Red Hat would like to thank Eyal Itkin for reporting CVE-2016-8633; Google Project Zero for reporting     CVE-2017-5754; Mohamed Ghannam for reporting CVE-2017-8824; Jim Mattson (Google.com) for reporting     CVE-2017-12154; Vitaly Mayatskih for reporting CVE-2017-12190; Andrea Arcangeli (Engineering) for     reporting CVE-2017-15126; Kirill Tkhai for reporting CVE-2017-15129; Jan H. Schnherr (Amazon) for     reporting CVE-2017-1000252; and Armis Labs for reporting CVE-2017-1000410. The CVE-2017-15121 issue was     discovered by Miklos Szeredi (Red Hat) and the CVE-2017-15116 issue was discovered by ChunYu Wang (Red     Hat).

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, 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 7.5 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.

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RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2018:1062)

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