The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0188 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: xfs: raw block device data leak in XFS_IOC_ALLOCSP IOCTL (CVE-2021-4155)

    * kernel: fs_context: heap overflow in legacy parameter handling (CVE-2022-0185)

    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):

    * kernel show  BUG: scheduling while atomic:xxx and reboot when an uncorrectable memory error     injection on RHEL8.4 beta and GA (BZ#2008789)

    * tcp: Sockets can be orphaned in the FIN-WAIT-1 or CLOSING states. (BZ#2021574)

    * Hostnetwork pod to service backed by hostnetwork on the same node is not working with OVN Kubernetes     (BZ#2024411)

    * ice: bug fixes for kernel crashes (BZ#2026698)

    * [RHEL-8.6][SanityOnly] Backport leftover migrate_disable BPF related change (BZ#2027689)

    * xfs: I_DONTCACHE flag is ignored [xfstests: xfs/177] (BZ#2028534)

    * FIPS: deadlock between PID 1 and modprobe crypto-jitterentropy_rng at boot, preventing system to boot     (BZ#2029365)

    * RHEL8.6: Backport upstream RCU commits up to v5.12 (BZ#2029449)

    * i40e,ixgbe: revert XDP partial backport from kernel 5.13 (BZ#2029845)

    * spec: Support separate tools build (BZ#2031053)

    * RCU stall WARNING: at kernel/rcu/tree.c:1392 rcu_advance_cbs_nowake+0x51/0x60 (BZ#2032579)

    * block: update to upstream v5.14 (BZ#2034396)

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-2022:0188)

high Nessus Plugin ID 156912

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