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RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2022:5564)

high Nessus Plugin ID 163076

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:5564 advisory.

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

 Security Fix(es):

 * kernel: race condition in perf_event_open leads to privilege escalation (CVE-2022-1729)

 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):

 * conntrack entries linger around after test (BZ#2066356)

 * Any process performing I/O doesn't fail on degraded LVM RAID and IO process hangs (BZ#2075075)

 * fix data corruption caused by dm-integrity (BZ#2082184)

 * Backport request of genirq: use rcu in kstat_irqs_usr() (BZ#2083308)

 * SUT will flash once color screen during boot to OS. (BZ#2083384)

 * Kernel Support Fixes for UV5 platform (BZ#2084645)

 * i/o on initiator stuck when network is disrupted (4.18.0-372.9.1.el8.x86_64) (BZ#2091078)

 * glock deadlock (using the dct tool) (BZ#2092073)

 * Recursive locking in gfs2_fault (read/write + mmap) (BZ#2092074)

 * 8.6.z backport of vmxnet3: add support for 32 Tx/Rx queues from BZ 2083561 (BZ#2094473)

 * System freezes with callstack in dmesg: ret_from_fork (BZ#2096305)

 * Need some changes in RHEL8.x kernels. (BZ#2096931)

 * Bad length in dpctl/dump-flows (BZ#2097796)

 Enhancement(s):

 * Elkhart Graphics - remove force_probe flag (BZ#2075567)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?477bd601

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:5564

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2086753

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 163076

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-5564.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/13/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-1729

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-core, 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-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-cross-headers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bpftool, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-modules-extra, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-perf

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/31/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-1729

CWE: 366

RHSA: 2022:5564