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RHEL 8 : kpatch-patch (RHSA-2021:2723)

high Nessus Plugin ID 151850

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for kpatch-patch.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:2723 advisory.

 This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel.

 Security Fix(es):

 * kernel: size_t-to-int conversion vulnerability in the filesystem layer (CVE-2021-33909)

 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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL kpatch-patch package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:2723.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0b5c8c49

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

https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2021-006

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2723

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1970273

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 151850

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-2723.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2021

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: High

Score: 8.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-33909

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

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:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-4_18_0-147_24_2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-4_18_0-147_38_1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-4_18_0-147_51_1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-4_18_0-147_32_1, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-4_18_0-147_44_1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-4_18_0-147_27_1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-4_18_0-147_43_1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-4_18_0-147_48_1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-4_18_0-147_34_1

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: 7/20/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/20/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-33909

CWE: 787

IAVA: 2021-A-0350

RHSA: 2021:2723