RHEL 8 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2019:2741)

high Nessus Plugin ID 128859

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2741 advisory.

The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: Heap overflow in mwifiex_update_bss_desc_with_ie function in marvell/mwifiex/scan.c (CVE-2019-3846)

* Kernel: KVM: nVMX: guest accesses L0 MSR causes potential DoS (CVE-2019-3887)

* kernel: brcmfmac heap buffer overflow in brcmf_wowl_nd_results (CVE-2019-9500)

* kernel: Count overflow in FUSE request leading to use-after-free issues. (CVE-2019-11487)

* kernel: brcmfmac frame validation bypass (CVE-2019-9503)

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):

* BUG: scheduling while atomic in zswap (BZ#1726362)

* kernel-rt: update to the RHEL8.0.z batch#3 source tree (BZ#1734475)

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-rt package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:2741.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?725817e2

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2741

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1695044

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1701224

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1701842

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1703063

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1713059

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1726362

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1734475

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 128859

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2741.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/16/2019

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-3846

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-kvm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-kvm, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-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: 9/11/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/3/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-19824, CVE-2019-11487, CVE-2019-3846, CVE-2019-3887, CVE-2019-9500, CVE-2019-9503

CWE: 122, 20, 416, 863

RHSA: 2019:2741