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RHEL 9 : kernel (RHSA-2022:6610)

high Nessus Plugin ID 165266

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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-2022:6610 advisory.

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

 Security Fix(es):

 * kernel: heap overflow in nft_set_elem_init() (CVE-2022-34918)

 * kernel: vulnerability of buffer overflow in nft_set_desc_concat_parse() (CVE-2022-2078)

 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):

 * RDMA/mlx5: Fix number of allocated XLT entries (BZ#2092270)

 * mlx5, Setup hanged when run test-route-nexthop-object.sh (BZ#2092535)

 * many call traces from unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x199 in amazon i4.32xlarge instance (BZ#2099417)

 * X86/platform/UV: Kernel Support Fixes for UV5 platform (BZ#2107732)

 * block layer: fixes for md sync slow and softlockup at blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests [9.0.0.z] (BZ#2111395)

 * Fixes for NVMe/TCP dereferences an invalid, non-canonical pointer, kernel panic (BZ#2117755)

 * Adding missing nvme fix to RHEL-9.1 (BZ#2117756)

 * nvme/tcp mistakenly uses blk_mq_tag_to_rq(nvme_tcp_tagset(queue) (BZ#2118698)

 * Important ice bug fixes (BZ#2119290)

 * Power 9/ppc64le Incorrect Socket(s) & Core(s) per socket reported by lscpu command. (BZ#2121719)

 Enhancement(s):

 * lscpu does not show all of the support AMX flags (amx_int8, amx_bf16) (BZ#2108203)

 * ice: Driver Update (BZ#2108204)

 * iavf: Driver Update (BZ#2119477)

 * i40e: Driver Update (BZ#2119479)

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?7f3f7ec7

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6610

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2096178

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2104423

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 165266

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-6610.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/20/2022

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: Critical

Score: 9.7

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-2022-34918

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

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:H/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, 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-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: 9/20/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/30/2022

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Netfilter nft_set_elem_init Heap Overflow Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2078, CVE-2022-34918

CWE: 1025, 120

RHSA: 2022:6610