RHEL 9 : kernel (RHSA-2023:0512)

high Nessus Plugin ID 170855

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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-2023:0512 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):

* RHEL-9.1: Update new rfkill event size behavior for compatibility with older applications (BZ#2098082)

* RHEL9 - ISST-LTE:LPM:Rainer/P9:HPT:SLES15SP4:After successful migration with hardlockups ,LPM failed and LPAR remained hung (BZ#2103084)

* Intel 9.1, ADL-P IOTG: rmmod of pmt_telemetry driver results in panic (BZ#2127863)

* kernel: Update ppc64le key following resolution of CVE-2022-1665 (BZ#2130923)

* MCHP 9.1: Update SmartPQI driver to latest upstream Second Set of Patches (BZ#2133552)

* intel_qat: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1440 at kernel/dma/debug.c:973 check_unmap+0xa6f/0x2360 (BZ#2133750)

* CNB: Update TC subsystem to upstream v5.18 (BZ#2137359)

* netfilter: backports from upstream (BZ#2137360)

* netfilter: backports from upstream (BZ#2137361)

* Cgroups_v2, when creating new cgroup/container, resets the cpu affinity masks for all usr processes on the system. (BZ#2143767)

* RHEL 9: ppc64le: unexpected oom panic when there's enough memory left in zswap test (BZ#2143977)

* RHEL 9.0, AMD Genoa: OS cannot boot when enabling SME in UEFI setup and appending 'mem_encrypt=on' (BZ#2145017)

* kernel-devel RPM cross-compiled by CKI contains host-arch scripts (BZ#2150019)

* Azure, RHEL 9: Sometimes newly deployed VMs are not getting accelerated network during provisioning (BZ#2151606)

* Scheduler Update (rhel9.2) (BZ#2153793)

* DELL 9.0 RT BUG - stock clone: On PE R760 system, call traces are observed dmesg when system is running stress (BZ#2154408)

* MSFT, MANA RHEL 9: Fix race on per-CQ variable napi_iperf panic fix (BZ#2155146)

* Azure, RHEL 9: VM Deployment Failures Patch Request (BZ#2155931)

* kernel-rt-debug: WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected (&n->list_lock->&p->pi_lock->&lock->wait_lock) (BZ#2160615)

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-2023:0512.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 170855

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-0512.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/30/2023

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-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-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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/30/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2022

Reference Information

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

CWE: 119, 401

RHSA: 2023:0512

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