RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2021:3327)

high Nessus Plugin ID 152935

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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 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:3327 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

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

* kernel: race condition for removal of the HCI controller (CVE-2021-32399)

* kernel: powerpc: RTAS calls can be used to compromise kernel integrity (CVE-2020-27777)

* kernel: Local privilege escalation due to incorrect BPF JIT branch displacement computation (CVE-2021-29154)

* kernel: lack a full memory barrier upon the assignment of a new table value in net/netfilter/x_tables.c and include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h may lead to DoS (CVE-2021-29650)

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):

* SAN Switch rebooted and caused (?) OpenStack compute node to reboot (BZ#1897576)

* sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/class/mdio_bus/ixgbe-8100 (BZ#1915449)

* XFS: read-only recovery does not update free space accounting in superblock (BZ#1921551)

* The memcg_params field of kmem_cache struct contains an old slab address that is to small for the current size of memcg_limited_groups_array_size. (BZ#1951810)

* Backport of upstream patch net: Update window_clamp if SOCK_RCVBUF is set into rhel-7 (BZ#1962196)

* Kernel panic in init_cq_frag_buf (BZ#1962499)

* futex: futex_requeue can potentially free the pi_state structure twice (BZ#1966856)

* be_poll lockup doing ifenslave when netconsole using bond (BZ#1971744)

* OCP4.7 nodes panic at BUG_ON in nf_nat_setup_info() (BZ#1972970)

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-2021:3327.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 152935

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-3327.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/1/2021

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.7

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-2021-29154

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: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: 8/31/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/10/2020

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Netfilter x_tables Heap OOB Write Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-27777, CVE-2021-22555, CVE-2021-29154, CVE-2021-29650, CVE-2021-32399

CWE: 119, 362, 662, 787, 862

RHSA: 2021:3327

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