RHEL 8 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2020:4289)

high Nessus Plugin ID 141603

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4289 advisory.

The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.

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: metadata validator in XFS may cause an inode with a valid, user-creatable extended attribute to be flagged as corrupt (CVE-2020-14385)

* kernel: memory corruption in net/packet/af_packet.c leads to elevation of privilege (CVE-2020-14386)

* kernel: kernel: buffer over write in vgacon_scroll (CVE-2020-14331)

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-rt: update RT source tree to the RHEL-8.2.z Batch#4 source tree (BZ#1877921)

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-rt package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:4289.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b83d1ca9

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/BleedingTooth

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4289

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1858679

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1874800

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1875699

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1886521

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1886529

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 141603

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-4289.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/20/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14386

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-12351

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-kvm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-modules-extra, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-kvm, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-modules

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: 10/20/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/29/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12351, CVE-2020-12352, CVE-2020-14331, CVE-2020-14385, CVE-2020-14386

CWE: 131, 201, 250, 787, 843

RHSA: 2020:4289