RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2023:0101)

high Nessus Plugin ID 169969

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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-2023:0101 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: memory corruption in AX88179_178A based USB ethernet device. (CVE-2022-2964)

* kernel: i915: Incorrect GPU TLB flush can lead to random memory access (CVE-2022-4139)

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):

* RHEL8.4 - zfcp: fix missing auto port scan and thus missing target ports (BZ#2127849)

* vfio zero page mappings fail after 2M instances (BZ#2128515)

* ice: Driver Update up to 5.19 (BZ#2130992)

* atlantic: missing hybernate/resume fixes (BZ#2131935)

* Bluefield 2 DPU would crash and reboot due to a kernel panic (BZ#2134084)

* Fix issue that enables STABLE_WRITES by default and causes performance regressions (BZ#2135813)

* ice: Intel E810 PTP clock glitching (BZ#2136036)

* ice: configure link-down-on-close on and change interface mtu to 9000,the interface can't up (BZ#2136216)

* ice: dump additional CSRs for Tx hang debugging (BZ#2136513)

* ice,iavf: system panic during sriov sriov_test_cntvf_reboot testing (BZ#2137270)

* After upgrading to ocp4.11.1, our dpdk application using vlan strip offload is not working (BZ#2138157)

* i40e: orphaned-leaky memory when interacting with driver memory parameters (BZ#2138205)

* WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 9637 at kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1309 hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x35d/0x400 (BZ#2138953)

* DELL EMC 8.6-RT: System is not booting into RT Kernel with perc12. (BZ#2139216)

* Lenovo 8.7: The VGA display shows no signal when install RHEL8.7 (BZ#2140152)

* Host Pod -> NodePort Service traffic (Host Backend - Same Node) Flow Iperf Cannot Pass Traffic (BZ#2141878)

* mlx5_core: mlx5_cmd_check messages scrolling with hardware offload enabled (BZ#2141957)

* net/ice: VIRTCHNL_OP_CONFIG_VSI_QUEUES command handling failure with in-tree driver (BZ#2142017)

* RHEL:8.6+ IBM Partner issue - Loopback driver with ABORT_TASKS causing hangs in scsi eh, this bug was cloned for RHEL8.6 and need this patch in 8.6+ (BZ#2144583)

* AMdCLIENT 8.8: The kernel command line parameter nomodeset not working properly (BZ#2145218)

* Path loss during Volume Ownership Change on RHEL 8.7 SAS (BZ#2147374)

* net/ice: OP_SET_RSS_HENA command not supported with in-tree driver (BZ#2148130)

* iavf panic: iavf 0000:ca:01.0: Failed to init adminq: -53 (BZ#2149081)

* Intel 8.8 iavf: Driver Update (bugfixes) (BZ#2149742)

* Azure RHEL-8 PCI: hv: Do not set PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY to reduce VM boot time (BZ#2150912)

* RHEL-8.7: System fails to boot with soft lockup while loading/unloading an unsigned (E) kernel module.
(BZ#2152206)

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-2023:0101.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 169969

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-0101.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/12/2023

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: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-4139

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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: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-cross-headers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-core, 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, 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/12/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2964, CVE-2022-4139

CWE: 119, 401

RHSA: 2023:0101

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