RHEL 9 : kernel (RHSA-2023:0334)

high Nessus Plugin ID 170404

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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 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:0334 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: watch queue race condition can lead to privilege escalation (CVE-2022-2959)

* 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)

* kernel: nfsd buffer overflow by RPC message over TCP with garbage data (CVE-2022-43945)

* kernel: i2c: unbounded length leads to buffer overflow in ismt_access() (CVE-2022-3077)

* kernel: 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):

* Intel 9.2: Important iavf bug fixes (BZ#2127884)

* vfio zero page mappings fail after 2M instances (BZ#2128514)

* nvme-tcp automatic reconnect fails intermittently during EMC powerstore NDU operation (BZ#2131359)

* ice: Driver Update to 5.19 (BZ#2132070)

* WARNING: CPU: 116 PID: 3440 at arch/x86/mm/extable.c:105 ex_handler_fprestore+0x3f/0x50 (BZ#2134588)

* drm: duplicated call of drm_privacy_screen_register_notifier() in drm_connector_register() (BZ#2134619)

* updating the appid field through sysfs is returning an -EINVAL error (BZ#2136914)

* DELL EMC: System is not booting into RT Kernel with perc12. (BZ#2139213)

* No signal showed in the VGA monitor when installing RHEL9 in the legacy bios mode (BZ#2140153)

* Practically limit Dummy wait workaround to old Intel systems (BZ#2142168)

* ppc64le: unexpected oom panic when there's enough memory left in zswap test (BZ#2143976)

* fatal error: error in backend: Branch target out of insn range (BZ#2144902)

* AMdCLIENT: The kernel command line parameter nomodeset not working properly (BZ#2145217)

* Azure: PCI: hv: Do not set PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY to reduce VM boot time (BZ#2150910)

* Azure z-stream: Sometimes newly deployed VMs are not getting accelerated network during provisioning (BZ#2151605)

* DELL 9.0 RT - On PE R760 system, call traces are observed dmesg when system is running stress (BZ#2154407)

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-2023:0334.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 170404

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-0334.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/23/2023

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: 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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-4139

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, 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: 1/23/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2959, CVE-2022-2964, CVE-2022-30594, CVE-2022-3077, CVE-2022-4139, CVE-2022-43945

CWE: 119, 120, 276, 362, 401, 770

RHSA: 2023:0334

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