RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2022:5819)

high Nessus Plugin ID 163793

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for kernel.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:5819 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: Small table perturb size in the TCP source port generation algorithm can lead to information leak (CVE-2022-1012)

* kernel: a use-after-free write in the netfilter subsystem can lead to privilege escalation to root (CVE-2022-32250)

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):

* Softirq hrtimers are being placed on the per-CPU softirq clocks on isolcpus. (BZ#2090484)

* enable/disable multiqueues repeatedly while ping local host, guest kernel panic (BZ#2093416)

* Backport kernel audit enhancements and fixes from v5.13-rc1 to v5.16-rc6 (BZ#2095434)

* blk_update_request: I/O error, dev nvme0n3, during xfs creation (BZ#2100150)

* SCSI updates for RHEL 8.7 (BZ#2100254)

* Kernel bug on mm/slub.c:314 (BZ#2102251)

* Implement new tc action for check_pkt_len (BZ#2102333)

* too long timeout value with TIME_WAIT status of conntrack entry (BZ#2104002)

* Connectx6-DX, mlx5 , backport 087032ee7021 (net/mlx5e: TC, Fix ct_clear overwriting ct action metadata) (BZ#2104012)

* mlx5: Software steering memory allocation failure, netperf TCP_CRR with ct(). (BZ#2104013)

* tcp: request_sock leak in Calico OCP (BZ#2104670)

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-2022:5819.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f8cfd08c

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:5819

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2064604

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2092427

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 163793

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-5819.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/3/2022

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: Critical

Score: 9.4

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-2022-32250

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-1012

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, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-core, 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, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-headers, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/3/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/2/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-1012, CVE-2022-32250

CWE: 200, 416

RHSA: 2022:5819