RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2019:1479)

high Nessus Plugin ID 125967

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for kernel.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1479 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's networking subsystem processed TCP Selective Acknowledgment (SACK) segments. While processing SACK segments, the Linux kernel's socket buffer (SKB) data structure becomes fragmented. Each fragment is about TCP maximum segment size (MSS) bytes. To efficiently process SACK blocks, the Linux kernel merges multiple fragmented SKBs into one, potentially overflowing the variable holding the number of segments. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the Linux kernel by sending a crafted sequence of SACK segments on a TCP connection with small value of TCP MSS, resulting in a denial of service (DoS). (CVE-2019-11477)

* kernel: lack of check for mmap minimum address in expand_downwards in mm/mmap.c leads to NULL pointer dereferences exploit on non-SMAP platforms (CVE-2019-9213)

* Kernel: tcp: excessive resource consumption while processing SACK blocks allows remote denial of service (CVE-2019-11478)

* Kernel: tcp: excessive resource consumption for TCP connections with low MSS allows remote denial of service (CVE-2019-11479)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

* [HPE 8.0 Bug] nvme drive power button does not turn off drive (BZ#1700288)

* RHEL8.0 - hw csum failure seen in dmesg and console (using mlx5/mlx4/Mellanox) (BZ#1700289)

* RHEL8.0 - vfio-ap: add subsystem to matrix device to avoid libudev failures (kvm) (BZ#1700290)

* [FJ8.1 Bug]: Make Fujitsu Erratum 010001 patch work on A64FX v1r0 (BZ#1700901)

* [FJ8.0 Bug]: Fujitsu A64FX processor errata - panic by unknown fault (BZ#1700902)

* RHEL 8.0 Snapshot 4 - nvme create-ns command hangs after creating 20 namespaces on Bolt (NVMe) (BZ#1701140)

* [Cavium/Marvell 8.0 qed] Fix qed_mcp_halt() and qed_mcp_resume() (backporting bug) (BZ#1704184)

* [Intel 8.1 Bug] PBF: Base frequency display fix (BZ#1706739)

* [RHEL8]read/write operation not permitted to /sys/kernel/debug/gcov/reset (BZ#1708100)

* RHEL8.0 - ISST-LTE:pVM:fleetwood:LPM:raylp85:After lpm seeing the console logs on the the lpar at target side (BZ#1708102)

* RHEL8.0 - Backport support for software count cache flush Spectre v2 mitigation (BZ#1708112)

* [Regression] RHEL8.0 - System crashed with one stress-ng-mremap stressor on Boston (kvm host) (BZ#1708617)

* [intel ice Rhel 8 RC1] ethtool -A ethx causes interfaces to go down (BZ#1709433)

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.

Solution

Update the RHEL kernel package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:1479.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 125967

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-1479.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/18/2019

Updated: 11/6/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.1

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11477

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11479

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-tools-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-cross-headers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bpftool, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-perf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-modules

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/17/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2019

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) rds_atomic_free_op NULL pointer dereference Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11477, CVE-2019-11478, CVE-2019-11479, CVE-2019-9213

CWE: 400, 476

RHSA: 2019:1479

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