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Oracle Linux 8 : kernel (ELSA-2019-3832)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 131272

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-3832 advisory.

 - [drm] drm/i915: Lower RM timeout to avoid DSI hard hangs (Dave Airlie) [1766056 1756805] {CVE-2019-0154}
 - [drm] drm/i915/gen8+: Add RC6 CTX corruption WA (Dave Airlie) [1766056 1756805] {CVE-2019-0154}
 - [drm] drm/i915/cmdparser: Ignore Length operands during command matching (Dave Airlie) [1756871 1756873] {CVE-2019-0155}
 - [drm] drm/i915/cmdparser: Add support for backward jumps (Dave Airlie) [1756871 1756873] {CVE-2019-0155}
 - [drm] drm/i915/cmdparser: Use explicit goto for error paths (Dave Airlie) [1756871 1756873] {CVE-2019-0155}
 - [drm] drm/i915: Add gen9 BCS cmdparsing (Dave Airlie) [1756871 1756873] {CVE-2019-0155}
 - [drm] drm/i915: Allow parsing of unsized batches (Dave Airlie) [1756871 1756873] {CVE-2019-0155}
 - [drm] drm/i915: Support ro ppgtt mapped cmdparser shadow buffers (Dave Airlie) [1756871 1756873] {CVE-2019-0155}
 - [drm] drm/i915: Add support for mandatory cmdparsing (Dave Airlie) [1756871 1756873] {CVE-2019-0155}
 - [drm] drm/i915: Remove Master tables from cmdparser (Dave Airlie) [1756871 1756873] {CVE-2019-0155}
 - [drm] drm/i915: Disable Secure Batches for gen6+ (Dave Airlie) [1756871 1756873] {CVE-2019-0155}
 - [drm] drm/i915: Rename gen7 cmdparser tables (Dave Airlie) [1756871 1756873] {CVE-2019-0155}
 - [x86] x86/tsx: Add config options to set tsx=on|off|auto (Josh Poimboeuf) [1766550 1766551] {CVE-2019-11135}
 - [documentation] x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async Abort (Josh Poimboeuf) [1766550 1766551] {CVE-2019-11135}
 - [x86] x86/tsx: Add 'auto' option to the tsx= cmdline parameter (Josh Poimboeuf) [1766550 1766551] {CVE-2019-11135}
 - [base] x86/speculation/taa: Add sysfs reporting for TSX Async Abort (Josh Poimboeuf) [1766550 1766551] {CVE-2019-11135}
 - [x86] x86/speculation/taa: Add mitigation for TSX Async Abort (Josh Poimboeuf) [1766550 1766551] {CVE-2019-11135}
 - [x86] x86/cpu: Add a 'tsx=' cmdline option with TSX disabled by default (Josh Poimboeuf) [1766550 1766551] {CVE-2019-11135}
 - [x86] x86/cpu: Add a helper function x86_read_arch_cap_msr() (Josh Poimboeuf) [1766550 1766551] {CVE-2019-11135}
 - [x86] x86/msr: Add the IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR (Josh Poimboeuf) [1766550 1766551] {CVE-2019-11135}
 - [documentation] Documentation: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT documentation (Paolo Bonzini) [1698416 1690344] {CVE-2018-12207}
 - [kvm] kvm: x86: mmu: Recovery of shattered NX large pages (Paolo Bonzini) [1698416 1690344] {CVE-2018-12207}
 - [virt] kvm: Add helper function for creating VM worker threads (Paolo Bonzini) [1698416 1690344] {CVE-2018-12207}
 - [kvm] kvm: mmu: ITLB_MULTIHIT mitigation (Paolo Bonzini) [1698416 1690344] {CVE-2018-12207}
 - [kernel] cpu/speculation: Uninline and export CPU mitigations helpers (Paolo Bonzini) [1698416 1690344] {CVE-2018-12207}
 - [x86] x86/cpu: Add Tremont to the cpu vulnerability whitelist (Paolo Bonzini) [1698416 1690344] {CVE-2018-12207}
 - [x86] x86: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT bug infrastructure (Paolo Bonzini) [1698416 1690344] {CVE-2018-12207}
 - [kvm] KVM: vmx, svm: always run with EFER.NXE=1 when shadow paging is active (Paolo Bonzini) [1698416 1690344] {CVE-2018-12207}
 - [kvm] KVM: x86: add tracepoints around __direct_map and FNAME(fetch) (Paolo Bonzini) [1698416 1690344] {CVE-2018-12207}
 - [kvm] KVM: x86: change kvm_mmu_page_get_gfn BUG_ON to WARN_ON (Paolo Bonzini) [1698416 1690344] {CVE-2018-12207}
 - [kvm] KVM: x86: remove now unneeded hugepage gfn adjustment (Paolo Bonzini) [1698416 1690344] {CVE-2018-12207}
 - [kvm] KVM: x86: make FNAME(fetch) and __direct_map more similar (Paolo Bonzini) [1698416 1690344] {CVE-2018-12207}
 - [kvm] kvm: mmu: Do not release the page inside mmu_set_spte() (Paolo Bonzini) [1698416 1690344] {CVE-2018-12207}
 - [kvm] kvm: Convert kvm_lock to a mutex (Paolo Bonzini) [1698416 1690344] {CVE-2018-12207}
 - [kvm] KVM: x86/mmu: Reintroduce fast invalidate/zap for flushing memslot (Paolo Bonzini) [1698416 1690344] {CVE-2018-12207}
 - [kvm] Revert 'KVM: x86/mmu: Zap only the relevant pages when removing a memslot' (Paolo Bonzini) [1698416 1690344] {CVE-2018-12207}
 - [kvm] kvm: x86, powerpc: do not allow clearing largepages debugfs entry (Paolo Bonzini) [1698416 1690344] {CVE-2018-12207}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2019-3832.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 131272

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2019-3832.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/25/2019

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11135

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-cross-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-modules, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-modules, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-abi-whitelists, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bpftool, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/22/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12207, CVE-2019-0154, CVE-2019-11135

IAVA: 2020-A-0325-S

RHSA: 2019:3832