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Oracle Linux 8 : kernel (ELSA-2022-1988)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 161305

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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-2022-1988 advisory.

 - netfilter: nf_tables_offload: incorrect flow offload action array size (Florian Westphal) [2056728] {CVE-2022-25636}
 - RDMA/cma: Do not change route.addr.src_addr.ss_family (Kamal Heib) [2032074] {CVE-2021-4028}
 - x86/speculation: Check CPU capability before applying IBRS spectre v2 mitigation (Waiman Long) [2062156 2062166] {CVE-2022-0001 CVE-2022-0002 CVE-2021-26401}
 - x86/speculation: Warn about eIBRS + LFENCE + Unprivileged eBPF + SMT (Waiman Long) [2062156 2062166] {CVE-2022-0001 CVE-2022-0002 CVE-2021-26401}
 - x86/speculation: Warn about Spectre v2 LFENCE mitigation (Waiman Long) [2062156 2062166] {CVE-2022-0001 CVE-2022-0002 CVE-2021-26401}
 - x86/speculation: Update link to AMD speculation whitepaper (Waiman Long) [2062166] {CVE-2021-26401}
 - x86/speculation: Use generic retpoline by default on AMD (Waiman Long) [2062166] {CVE-2021-26401}
 - x86/speculation: Include unprivileged eBPF status in Spectre v2 mitigation reporting (Waiman Long) [2062156] {CVE-2022-0001 CVE-2022-0002}
 - Documentation/hw-vuln: Update spectre doc (Waiman Long) [2062156] {CVE-2022-0001 CVE-2022-0002}
 - x86/speculation: Add eIBRS + Retpoline options (Waiman Long) [2062156] {CVE-2022-0001 CVE-2022-0002}
 - x86/speculation: Rename RETPOLINE_AMD to RETPOLINE_LFENCE (Waiman Long) [2062156] {CVE-2022-0001 CVE-2022-0002}
 - x86,bugs: Unconditionally allow spectre_v2=retpoline,amd (Waiman Long) [2062156] {CVE-2022-0001 CVE-2022-0002}
 - x86: deduplicate the spectre_v2_user documentation (Waiman Long) [2062156] {CVE-2022-0001 CVE-2022-0002}
 - fuse: fix pipe buffer lifetime for direct_io (Miklos Szeredi) [2064863] {CVE-2022-1011}
 - tipc: improve size validations for received domain records (Xin Long) [2048971] {CVE-2022-0435}

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-2022-1988.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 161305

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2022-1988.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/18/2022

Updated: 11/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.9

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3752

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3773

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: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/9/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-0404, CVE-2020-13974, CVE-2020-27820, CVE-2020-4788, CVE-2021-0941, CVE-2021-20322, CVE-2021-21781, CVE-2021-26401, CVE-2021-29154, CVE-2021-3612, CVE-2021-3669, CVE-2021-37159, CVE-2021-3743, CVE-2021-3744, CVE-2021-3752, CVE-2021-3759, CVE-2021-3764, CVE-2021-3772, CVE-2021-3773, CVE-2021-4002, CVE-2021-4037, CVE-2021-4083, CVE-2021-4157, CVE-2021-41864, CVE-2021-4197, CVE-2021-4203, CVE-2021-42739, CVE-2021-43056, CVE-2021-43389, CVE-2021-43976, CVE-2021-44733, CVE-2021-45485, CVE-2021-45486, CVE-2022-0001, CVE-2022-0002, CVE-2022-0286, CVE-2022-0322, CVE-2022-1011