RHEL 7 : kernel-alt (RHSA-2020:4279)

high Nessus Plugin ID 141546

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for kernel-alt.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4279 advisory.

The kernel-alt packages provide the Linux kernel version 4.x.

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: net: bluetooth: type confusion while processing AMP packets (CVE-2020-12351)

* kernel: net: bluetooth: information leak when processing certain AMP packets (CVE-2020-12352)

* kernel: information exposure in drivers/char/random.c and kernel/time/timer.c (CVE-2020-16166)

* kernel: TOCTOU mismatch in the NFS client code (CVE-2020-25212)

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.

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-alt package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:4279.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 141546

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-4279.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 10/20/2020

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: High

Score: 8.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-12351

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: 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-bootwrapper, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-alt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-perf, 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: 10/19/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/30/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12351, CVE-2020-12352, CVE-2020-16166, CVE-2020-25212

CWE: 200, 201, 367, 843

RHSA: 2020:4279

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