The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:3057 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: race condition in net/can/bcm.c leads to local privilege escalation (CVE-2021-3609)

    * kernel: Improper handling of VM_IO|VM_PFNMAP vmas in KVM can bypass RO checks (CVE-2021-22543)

    * kernel: out-of-bounds write in xt_compat_target_from_user() in net/netfilter/x_tables.c (CVE-2021-22555)

    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):

    * Urgent: Missing dptf_power.ko module in RHEL8 (BZ#1968381)

    * [mlx5] kdump over NFS fails: mlx5 driver gives error Stop room 95 is bigger than the SQ size 64     (BZ#1969909)

    * BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 in bluetooth  hci_error_reset     on intel-tigerlake-h01 (BZ#1972564)

    * Update CIFS to kernel 5.10 (BZ#1973637)

    * Backport tick/nohz: Conditionally restart tick on idle exit to RHEL 8.5 (BZ#1978710)

    * Significant performance drop starting on kernel-4.18.0-277 visible on mmap benchmark (BZ#1980314)

    * Inaccessible NFS server overloads clients (native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath connotation?) (BZ#1980613)

    * [RHEL8.4 BUG],RialtoMLK, I915 graphic driver failed to boot with one new 120HZ panel (BZ#1981250)

    * act_ct: subject to DNAT tuple collision (BZ#1982494)

    Enhancement(s):

    * [Lenovo 8.5 FEAT] drivers/nvme - Update to the latest upstream (BZ#1965415)

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.

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RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2021:3057)

high Nessus Plugin ID 152438

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