RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2021:2570)

high Nessus Plugin ID 151138

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-2021:2570 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: use-after-free in net/bluetooth/hci_event.c when destroying an hci_chan (CVE-2021-33034)

* kernel: security bypass in certs/blacklist.c and certs/system_keyring.c (CVE-2020-26541)

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):

* [ESXi][RHEL-8] VMXNET3 v4 causes invalid checksums of inner packets of VXLAN tunnel (BZ#1960702)

* fnic crash from invalid request pointer (BZ#1961705)

* GFS2: Failed FS thaw call makes the entire snapshot failed. (BZ#1961849)

* dm writecache: fix performance degradation in ssd mode (BZ#1962241)

* Kernel BUG with act_ct and IP fragments (BZ#1963940)

* core: backports from upstream (BZ#1963952)

* Hibernate resume on RHEL fails in Amazon EC2 C5.18xlarge instance (BZ#1964930)

* [SanityOnly] panic caused by i40e_msix_clean_rings (BZ#1964962)

* tc reclassification limit is too low for OVN (BZ#1965148)

* tc action ct nat src addr does not work while used with ct nat dst addr together (BZ#1965150)

* CNB: Rebase/update TC subsystem for RHEL 8.5 (BZ#1965457)

* sctp: crash due to use after free of sctp_transport structure (BZ#1965632)

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-2021:2570.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?40ab6532

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2570

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1886285

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1961305

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 151138

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-2570.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/29/2021

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: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-26541

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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-2021-33034

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.4, 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, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, 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-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-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-cross-headers, 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

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: 6/29/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-26541, CVE-2021-33034

CWE: 200, 416

RHSA: 2021:2570