RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2022:6243)

high Nessus Plugin ID 164513

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-2022:6243 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)

* A kernel-info-leak issue in pfkey_register (CVE-2022-1353)

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):

* unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000138040000237 (BZ#2100406)

* bnxt_en: Update driver to the latest upstream version (BZ#2100422)

* too long timeout value with TIME_WAIT status of conntrack entry (BZ#2104004)

* tcp: request_sock leak in Calico OCP (BZ#2104671)

* net: openvswitch: fix parsing of nw_proto for IPv6 fragments (BZ#2106704)

* ipv6: 'disable_policy' is ignored for addresses configured on a down interface (BZ#2109972)

* Percpu counter usage is gradually getting increasing during podman container recreation. (BZ#2110040)

* trouble re-assigning MACs to VFs, ice stricter than other drivers (BZ#2111937)

* ceph: add support for rxbounce option (BZ#2112967)

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-2022:6243.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d88189e1

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6243

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2066819

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 164513

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-6243.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/31/2022

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: 5.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-1353

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:rhel_eus:8.4, 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, 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-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: 8/31/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/25/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-0494, CVE-2022-1353

CWE: 212, 908

RHSA: 2022:6243