RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2022:6460)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 164964

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6460 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* Incomplete cleanup of multi-core shared buffers (aka SBDR) (CVE-2022-21123)

* Incomplete cleanup of microarchitectural fill buffers (aka SBDS) (CVE-2022-21125)

* Incomplete cleanup in specific special register write operations (aka DRPW) (CVE-2022-21166)

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):

* Bad page state in process qemu-kvm pfn:68a74600 (BZ#2081013)

* slub corruption during LPM of hnv interface (BZ#2081250)

* Affinity broken due to vector space exhaustion (BZ#2084646)

* 'rmmod pmt_telemetry' panics on ADL-P IOTG (BZ#2091079)

* Unable to boot RHEL-8.6 on Brazos max. config (Install is success) (BZ#2092241)

* kernel crash after reboot of T14/G2 AMD laptop (mt7921e module) (BZ#2095654)

* mt7921: free resources on pci_probe error path (BZ#2101684)

* NLM should be more defensive if underlying FS changes fl_owner (BZ#2102099)

* RHEL8/async-pf Guest call trace when reboot after postcopy migration with high stress workload (BZ#2105340)

* execve exit tracepoint not called (BZ#2106662)

* QProcess dead lock on kernel-4.18.0-358 (BZ#2107643)

* KVM fix guest FPU uABI size to kvm_xsave (BZ#2107652)

* KVM selftests fail to compile (BZ#2107655)

* Some monitor have no display with AMD W6400 when boot into OS. (BZ#2109826)

* Percpu counter usage is gradually getting increasing during podman container recreation. (BZ#2110039)

* multipath failed to recover after EEH hit on flavafish adapter on Denali(qla2xxx/flavafish/RHEL8.6/Denali) (BZ#2110768)

* soft lockups under heavy I/O load to ahci connected SSDs (BZ#2110772)

* trouble re-assigning MACs to VFs, ice stricter than other drivers (BZ#2111936)

* Intel MPI 2019.0 - mpirun stuck on latest kernel (BZ#2112030)

* Multicast packets are not received by all VFs on the same port even though they have the same VLAN (BZ#2117026)

* Hyper-V 2019 Dynamic Memory Problem hv_balloon (BZ#2117050)

* kernel BUG at kernel/sched/deadline.c:1561! (BZ#2117410)

* ALSA (sound) driver - update Intel SOF kcontrol code (BZ#2117732)

* bridge over bond over ice ports has no connection (BZ#2118580)

* Fix max VLANs available for VF (BZ#2118581)

* offline selftest failed (BZ#2118582)

* INTEL NVMUpdate utility ver 3.20 is failing to update firmware on E810-XXVDA4T (WPC) (BZ#2118583)

* VM configured with failover interface will coredump after been migrating from source host to target host(only iavf driver) (BZ#2118705)

* Fix max VLANs available for untrusted VF (BZ#2118707)

* Softlockup on infinite loop in task_get_css() for a CSS_DYING cpuset (BZ#2120776)

Enhancement(s):

* KVM Sapphire Rapids (SPR) AMX Instructions (BZ#2088287)

* KVM Sapphire Rapids (SPR) AMX Instructions part2 (BZ#2088288)

* ice: Driver Update (BZ#2102359)

* iavf: Driver Update (BZ#2102360)

* iommu/vt-d: Make DMAR_UNITS_SUPPORTED a config setting (BZ#2112983)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 164964

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-6460.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/13/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-21166

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/14/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-21123, CVE-2022-21125, CVE-2022-21166

CWE: 459

RHSA: 2022:6460

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