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RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2021:0184)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 145074

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0184 advisory.

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

 Security Fix(es):

 * kernel: Local buffer overflow in ctnetlink_parse_tuple_filter in net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c (CVE-2020-25211)

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

 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):

 * RHEL8.1 - net/smc: fix silent data corruption in SMC (BZ#1882242)

 * RHEL8.1 - Random memory corruption may occur due to incorrect tlbflush (BZ#1899210)

 * RHEL8.3 Beta - RHEL8.3 hangs on dbginfo.sh execution, crash dump generated (mm-) (BZ#1903021)

 * [Azure][RHEL8] IP forwarding issue in netvsc (BZ#1904327)

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 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:0184.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?9b14f15d

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0184

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1865751

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1877571

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 145074

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-0184.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/19/2021

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: Medium

Score: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-16166

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-25211

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-modules, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra

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: 1/19/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/30/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-16166, CVE-2020-25211

CWE: 119, 200

RHSA: 2021:0184