The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:3967 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: MIDI driver race condition leads to a double-free (CVE-2018-10902)

    * kernel: Use-after-free due to race condition in AF_PACKET implementation (CVE-2018-18559)

    * Kernel: vhost_net: infinite loop while receiving packets leads to DoS (CVE-2019-3900)

    * Kernel: page cache side channel attacks (CVE-2019-5489)

    * Kernel: KVM: potential use-after-free via kvm_ioctl_create_device() (CVE-2019-6974)

    * Kernel: KVM: nVMX: use-after-free of the hrtimer for emulation of the preemption timer (CVE-2019-7221)

    * kernel: Inifinite loop vulnerability in mm/madvise.c:madvise_willneed() function allows local denial of     service (CVE-2017-18208)

    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):

    * A cluster node has multiple hung mv processes that are accessing a gfs2 filesystem. (BZ#1716321)

    * Growing unreclaimable slab memory (BZ#1741918)

    * [LLNL 7.5 Bug] slab leak causing a crash when using kmem control group (BZ#1748236)

    * kernel build: parallelize redhat/mod-sign.sh (BZ#1755328)

    * kernel build: speed up module compression step (BZ#1755337)

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.

Detections

Analytics

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2019:3967)

high Nessus Plugin ID 131375

Version 1.7

Version 1.6

Version 1.5

Version 1.4

Version 1.7 Nov 7, 2024, 8:52 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411070852
Version 1.6 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 1.5 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.4 Dec 6, 2022, 2:54 AM Reference Plugin Feed: 202212060254