The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2696 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: Memory corruption due to incorrect socket cloning (CVE-2018-9568)

    * kernel: Missing check in fs/inode.c:inode_init_owner() does not clear SGID bit on non-directories for     non-members (CVE-2018-13405)

    * kernel: nfs: use-after-free in svc_process_common() (CVE-2018-16884)

    * kernel: nfs: NULL pointer dereference due to an anomalized NFS message sequence (CVE-2018-16871)

    * kernel: hw: Spectre SWAPGS gadget vulnerability (CVE-2019-1125)

    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):

    * fragmented packets timing out (BZ#1729411)

    * kernel build: speed up debuginfo extraction (BZ#1731462)

    * TCP packets are segmented when sent to the VM (TAP) (BZ#1732744)

    * TCP packets are segmented when sent to the VLAN device when coming from VXLAN dev. (BZ#1732809)

    * skb head copy occurs when sending traffic over OVS managed VXLAN tunnel (BZ#1733626)

    * [mlx4] VXLAN over VLAN TCP segmentation (BZ#1734160)

    * use make -jN for modules_install (BZ#1735081)

    * shmem: consider shm_mnt as a long-term mount (BZ#1737376)

    * [ESXi][RHEL7]use-after-free of scsi_cmnd on VMWare virtual guest with vmw_pvscsi and ata_piix     (BZ#1737377)

    * Backport TCP follow-up for small buffers (BZ#1739127)

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-2019:2696)

high Nessus Plugin ID 128662

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Version 1.10 Nov 8, 2024, 2:25 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411080225
Version 1.9 Nov 5, 2024, 12:50 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411051250
Version 1.8 Apr 28, 2024, 1:01 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404280101