RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2021:0336)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 146076

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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-2021:0336 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: use-after-free in fs/block_dev.c (CVE-2020-15436)

* kernel: Nfsd failure to clear umask after processing an open or create (CVE-2020-35513)

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):

* double free issue in filelayout_alloc_commit_info (BZ#1679980)

* Regression: Plantronics Device SHS2355-11 PTT button does not work after update to 7.7 (BZ#1769502)

* Openstack network node reports unregister_netdevice: waiting for qr-3cec0c92-9a to become free. Usage count = 1 (BZ#1809519)

* dlm: add ability to interrupt waiting for acquire POSIX lock (BZ#1826858)

* [Azure][RHEL7] soft lockups and performance loss occurring during final fsync with parallel dd writes to xfs filesystem in azure instance (BZ#1859364)

* Guest crashed when hotplug vcpus on booting kernel stage (BZ#1866138)

* soft lockup occurs while a thread group leader is waiting on tasklist_waiters in mm_update_next_owner() where a huge number of the thread group members are exiting and trying to take the tasklist_lock.
(BZ#1872110)

* [DELL EMC 7.6 BUG] Kioxia CM6 NVMe drive fails to enumerate (BZ#1883403)

* [Hyper-V][RHEL7] Request to included a commit that adds a timeout to vmbus_wait_for_unload (BZ#1888979)

* Unable to discover the LUNs from new storage port (BZ#1889311)

* RHEL 7.9 Kernel panic at ceph_put_snap_realm+0x21 (BZ#1890386)

* A hard lockup occurrs where one task is looping in an sk_lock spinlock that has been taken by another task running timespec64_add_ns(). (BZ#1890911)

* ethtool/mlx5_core provides incorrect SFP module info (BZ#1896756)

* RHEL7.7 - zcrypt: Fix ZCRYPT_PERDEV_REQCNT ioctl (BZ#1896826)

* RHEL7.7 - s390/dasd: Fix zero write for FBA devices (BZ#1896839)

* [Azure]IP forwarding issue in netvsc[7.9.z] (BZ#1898280)

* Security patch for CVE-2020-25212 breaks directory listings via 'ls' on NFS V4.2 shares mounted with selinux enabled labels (BZ#1917504)

Enhancement(s):

* RFE : handle better ERRbaduid on SMB1 (BZ#1847041)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 146076

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-0336.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 2/3/2021

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

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-2020-15436

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/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:bpftool, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/2/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/25/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15436, CVE-2020-35513

CWE: 271, 416

RHSA: 2021:0336

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