Detections
Analytics
RHEL 9 : kernel (RHSA-2022:7318)
high Nessus Plugin ID 166887
Language:
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-2022:7318 advisory.The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fix(es):
* posix cpu timer use-after-free may lead to local privilege escalation (CVE-2022-2585)
* Unprivileged users may use PTRACE_SEIZE to set PTRACE_O_SUSPEND_SECCOMP option (CVE-2022-30594)
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):
* kernel crash after reboot of T14/G2 AMD laptop (mt7921e module) (BZ#2095653)
* execve exit tracepoint not called (BZ#2106661)
* Matrox black screen on VGA output on some systems. (BZ#2112017)
* The kernel needs to offer a way to reseed the Crypto DRBG and atomically extract random numbers from it (BZ#2121129)
* watchdog BUG: soft lockup - CPU#30 stuck for 34s! [swapper/30:0] (BZ#2127857)
* Update cifs to 5.16 (BZ#2127858)
* Bad page state in process qemu-kvm pfn:68a74600 (BZ#2127859)
* vfio zero page mappings fail after 2M instances (BZ#2128791)
* The kernel needs to offer a way to reseed the Crypto DRBG and atomically extract random numbers from it (part 2) (BZ#2128970)
Enhancement(s):
* Need to enable hpilo to support new HPE RL300 Gen11 for ARM (aarch64) (BZ#2129453)
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?86d663b5
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7318
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 166887
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-7318.nasl
Version: 1.8
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 11/3/2022
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: Medium
Score: 6.7
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Important
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.4
Temporal Score: 3.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-30594
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
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: 11/2/2022
Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2022
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2022-2585, CVE-2022-30594