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RHEL 9 : kernel (RHSA-2022:6003)

high Nessus Plugin ID 163961

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6003 advisory.

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

 Security Fix(es):

 * information leak in scsi_ioctl() (CVE-2022-0494)

 * use-after-free in tc_new_tfilter() in net/sched/cls_api.c (CVE-2022-1055)

 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):

 * Power9 - LPAR fails to boot in shared processing mode and call traces are seen [Hash] (BZ#2092248)

 * Hard lockups are observed while running stress-ng and LPAR hangs (BZ#2092253)

 * FIPS module identification via name and version (BZ#2093384)

 * gfs2: File corruption with large writes when memory is tight (BZ#2097306)

 * i/o on initiator stuck when network is disrupted (4.18.0-372.9.1.el8.x86_64) (BZ#2098251)

 * RHEL 9.1 doesn't support 3rd SATA (BZ#2099740)

 * Guest call trace when reboot after postcopy migration with high stress workload (BZ#2100903)

 * Oops or general protection fault with RIP decode_attr_security_label at decode_getfattr_attrs (BZ#2101854)

 * Oops as BUG: unable to handle page fault as free of uninitialized nfs4_label on nfs referral lookup (BZ#2101858)

 * lpar crash with Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] when changing mtu of a bond interface (P10/ ibmvnic/ Haleakala) (BZ#2103085)

 * OS doesn't boot when vmd and interrupt remapping are enabled (BZ#2109974)

 Enhancement(s):

 * iommu/vt-d: Make DMAR_UNITS_SUPPORTED a config setting (BZ#2105326)

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 affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2cd4d036

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6003

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2039448

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2070220

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 163961

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-6003.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/9/2022

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: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-0494

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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-2022-1055

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Threat Score: 7.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-1055

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, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-devel-matched, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-modules-extra, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-core, 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, 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, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-devel-matched, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-devel-matched

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: 8/9/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-0494, CVE-2022-1055

CWE: 416, 908

RHSA: 2022:6003