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RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2020:1465)
high Nessus Plugin ID 135457
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1465 advisory.The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fix(es):
* kernel: rtl_p2p_noa_ie in drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/ps.c in the Linux kernel lacks a certain upper-bound check, leading to a buffer overflow (CVE-2019-17666)
* Kernel: KVM: export MSR_IA32_TSX_CTRL to guest - incomplete fix for TAA (CVE-2019-11135) (CVE-2019-19338)
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):
* Slow console output with ast (Aspeed) graphics driver (BZ#1780146)
* VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of loop0 when encountering duplicate directory inodes (BZ#1781158)
* RHEL 7.7 long I/O stalls with bnx2fc from not masking off scope bits of retry delay value (BZ#1795648)
* System Crash on vport creation (NPIV on FCoE) (BZ#1796363)
* A directory on a gfs2 filesystem appears corrupt on nodeB after nodeA renames the directory (BZ#1796430)
* [GSS] Can't access the mount point due to possible blocking of i/o on rbd (BZ#1796434)
* [xfstests]: copy_file_range cause corruption on rhel-7 (BZ#1797966)
* port show-kabi to python3 (BZ#1806928)
* top shows super high loads when tuned profile realtime-virtual-host is applied (BZ#1808028)
Enhancement(s):
* scsi: qla2xxx: Fix panic in qla_dfs_tgt_counters_show' (BZ#1791594)
* [Cavium 7.7 Feat] qla2xxx: Update to latest upstream. (BZ#1797503)
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 affected packages.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?c7f8c38c
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1465
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 135457
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1465.nasl
Version: 1.9
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 4/14/2020
Updated: 6/4/2024
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 8.3
Temporal Score: 6.1
Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-17666
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 8.8
Temporal Score: 7.7
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:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bpftool, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:7.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-tools, 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 Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 4/14/2020
Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/17/2019
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2019-17666, CVE-2019-19338