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Oracle Linux 8 : kernel (ELSA-2022-0825)

high Nessus Plugin ID 158794

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2022-0825 advisory.

 - lib/iov_iter: initialize 'flags' in new pipe_buffer (Jan Stancek) [2060874 2060875] {CVE-2022-0847}
 - tipc: improve size validations for received domain records (Xin Long) [2048970 2048971] {CVE-2022-0435}
 - selftests: kvm: Check whether SIDA memop fails for normal guests (Thomas Huth) [2050806 2050807] {CVE-2022-0516}
 - KVM: s390: Return error on SIDA memop on normal guest (Thomas Huth) [2050806 2050807] {CVE-2022-0516}
 - cgroup-v1: Require capabilities to set release_agent (Waiman Long) [2052166 2052167] {CVE-2022-0492}
 - drm/i915: Flush TLBs before releasing backing store (Patrick Talbert) [2044328 2044329] {CVE-2022-0330}
 - drm/vmwgfx: Fix stale file descriptors on failed usercopy (Dave Airlie) [2047601 2047602] {CVE-2022-22942}
 - vfs: Out-of-bounds write of heap buffer in fs_context.c (Frantisek Hrbata) [2040585 2040586] {CVE-2022-0185}
 - xfs: map unwritten blocks in XFS_IOC_{ALLOC,FREE}SP just like fallocate (Bruno Meneguele) [2034864 2034865] {CVE-2021-4155}
 - af_unix: fix garbage collect vs MSG_PEEK (Patrick Talbert) [2031974 2031975] {CVE-2021-0920}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2022-0825.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 158794

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2022-0825.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/10/2022

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-0435

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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:oracle:linux:kernel-tools-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-cross-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-modules, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-modules, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-abi-stablelists, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bpftool, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel

Required KB Items: Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/11/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/15/2021

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 5/16/2022, 6/13/2022

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Dirty Pipe Local Privilege Escalation via CVE-2022-0847)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-0920, CVE-2021-4154, CVE-2022-0330, CVE-2022-0435, CVE-2022-0492, CVE-2022-0516, CVE-2022-0847, CVE-2022-22942