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RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2019:3220)
high Nessus Plugin ID 130376
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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 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:3220 advisory.The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fix(es):
* Kernel: vhost_net: infinite loop while receiving packets leads to DoS (CVE-2019-3900)
* hardware: bluetooth: BR/EDR encryption key negotiation attacks (KNOB) (CVE-2019-9506)
* 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):
* [mlx4] VXLAN over VLAN TCP segmentation (BZ#1734325)
* Race condition in /dev/sg due to missing synchronization causes corruption in RHV (BZ#1737378)
* [FJ7.6 Bug]: [REG] kernel: ipc: ipc_free should use kvfree (BZ#1740177)
* high update_cfs_rq_blocked_load contention (BZ#1740179)
* kvm: backport cpuidle-haltpoll driver (BZ#1740191)
* Growing unreclaimable slab memory (BZ#1741919)
* [Hyper-V]vPCI devices cannot allocate IRQs vectors in a Hyper-V VM with > 240 vCPUs (i.e., when in x2APIC mode) (BZ#1743323)
* NFSv4.0 client sending a double CLOSE (leading to EIO application failure) (BZ#1744945)
* powerpc/pseries: Fix unitialized timer reset on migration / powerpc/pseries/mobility: Extend start/stop topology update scope (LPM) (BZ#1745441)
* ISST-LTE:PVM:Zeppelin :LPM: Failure logs and stack trace seen during LPM (POWER9/P9) (BZ#1745448)
* [LLNL 7.5 Bug] slab leak causing a crash when using kmem control group (BZ#1748237)
* [Azure] CRI-RDOS | [RHEL 7.8] Live migration only takes 10 seconds, but the VM was unavailable for 2 hours (BZ#1748238)
* Allows macvlan to operate correctly over the active-backup mode to support bonding events (BZ#1749291)
* debug kernel reports scheduling while atomic bug in EFI code (BZ#1755324)
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-2019:3220.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?867d12bb
https://access.redhat.com/articles/4329821
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3220
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1698757
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 130376
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-3220.nasl
Version: 1.6
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 10/30/2019
Updated: 11/7/2024
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.0
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Important
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.8
Temporal Score: 3.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9506
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 8.1
Temporal Score: 7.3
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bpftool, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-headers, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:7.6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-devel, 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-kdump, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-bootwrapper, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-perf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-kdump-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perf
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: 10/29/2019
Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/25/2019