RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2021:2185)

high Nessus Plugin ID 150135

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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-2021:2185 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: use after free in eventpoll.c may lead to escalation of privilege (CVE-2020-0466)

* kernel: Integer overflow in Intel(R) Graphics Drivers (CVE-2020-12362)

* kernel: SCSI target (LIO) write to any block on ILO backstore (CVE-2020-28374)

* kernel: DoS by corrupting mountpoint reference counter (CVE-2020-12114)

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):

* RHEL8.3 - Include patch: powerpc/pci: Remove LSI mappings on device teardown (xive/pci) (BZ#1931925)

* RHEL8.2 - [P10][Denali] System crash during a perf sanity test (perf:) (BZ#1933995)

* [RHEL 8.1] AMD/EPYC nested guest virtualization L1 guest crash (BZ#1945404)

* [HPEMC 8.1 REGRESSION] skx_uncore: probe of 0008:80:08.0 failed with error -22 (BZ#1947114)

* iperf3 over geneve created on vlan would fail (BZ#1947979)

* [Azure][RHEL-8]Mellanox Patches To Prevent Kernel Hang In MLX4 (BZ#1952071)

* [HPEMC 8.4 REGRESSION]: perf/x86/intel/uncore kernel panic vulnerability on Haswell and Broadwell servers (BZ#1956685)

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-2021:2185.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 150135

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-2185.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/2/2021

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-0466

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-28374

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-cross-headers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-core, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.2, 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, 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-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, 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-zfcpdump-core

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: 6/2/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/4/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-0466, CVE-2020-12114, CVE-2020-12362, CVE-2020-28374

CWE: 190, 20, 400, 416

RHSA: 2021:2185

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