RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2020:2427)

high Nessus Plugin ID 137278

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for kernel.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:2427 advisory.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: use-after-free in block/bfq-iosched.c related to bfq_idle_slice_timer_body (CVE-2020-12657)

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):

* kernel: hw: provide reporting and microcode mitigation toggle for CVE-2020-0543 / Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) (BZ#1827191)

* ipsec interfaces: fix sending with bpf_redirect() / AF_PACKET sockets (BZ#1821375)

* IB/core: deadlock on rdma_nl_mutex when netlink triggers on-demand modprobe rdma_cm (BZ#1821381)

* dm: fix excessive bio splitting that results in performance regressions (BZ#1821382)

* system time jumps when hotplug vcpu on a long uptime guest (BZ#1822498)

* [DELL 8.2 BUG]Ethernet : e1000e doesn't work after S2I (BZ#1825262)

* NFSv3 sec=krb5p fails against an ONTAP server (BZ#1826219)

* Stand-alone CPU Linpack test reports bad residual on HPC Cluster node(s) while running RHEL 8 (BZ#1827619)

* [DELL 8.2 BUG]bluetooth Scanning block S3 and Suspend to idle (BZ#1827620)

* RHEL8.2 Beta - SMC-R connection with vlan-id fails (BZ#1827631)

* RHEL8.1 - RHEL8.1 kernel 4.18.0-147.3.1.el8.bz181950_test001.ppc64le+debug failed during LPM test (p8/p9):idahop08:LPM (vtpm) (BZ#1827632)

* missing version.h dependency for modpost may cause build to fail (BZ#1828229)

* efi: kernel panic during ltp fs test - read_all -d /sys -q -r 10 (BZ#1829527)

* Let isolcpus= skip unknown sub-parameters (BZ#1832367)

* RHEL8.0 - Very bad performance with small blocks in FC-IO found by SAP HANA on POWER tests on RHEL8.0 (compared to RHEL7.4) (BZ#1834517)

* [FJ8.2 Bug]: [REG] NFS-client panic at nfs4_get_valid_delegation+0x1c/0x40 [nfsv4] (BZ#1837969)

* [RHEL-8.3] upstream bonding driver refresh (BZ#1838477)

* Enable xt_u32 module (BZ#1840799)

* Move xt_u32 module to kernel-modules-extra (BZ#1840800)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-2020:2427.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 137278

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-2427.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/9/2020

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: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-12657

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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:kernel-debug-core, 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-core, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-cross-headers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bpftool, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-core, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-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: 6/9/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12657

CWE: 416

RHSA: 2020:2427

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