RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2023:0496)

high Nessus Plugin ID 170874

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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-2023:0496 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):

* fix for CoW after fork() issue aka vmsplice child -> parent attack aka GUP after fork bug (BZ#2137547)

* After upgrading to ocp4.11.1, our dpdk application using vlan strip offload is not working (BZ#2138207)

* i40e sriov virtual functions not created (BZ#2140103)

* net/ice: VIRTCHNL_OP_CONFIG_VSI_QUEUES command handling failure with in-tree driver (BZ#2142019)

* HPE: Premature swapping with swappiness=0 while theres still plenty of pagecache to be reclaimed.
(BZ#2151634)

* The kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:103! from BZ 2041529 is back on rhel-8.5 (BZ#2153232)

* Azure: Sometimes newly deployed VMs are not getting accelerated network during provisioning (BZ#2155274)

* Azure: VM Deployment Failures Patch Request (BZ#2155282)

* RHEL 8.8: Backport upstream patches to reduce memory cgroup memory consumption and OOM problem (BZ#2157924)

* RHEL 8.5: Backport upstream memory cgroup commits up to v5.12 (BZ#2158049)

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-2023:0496.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 170874

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-0496.nasl

Version: 1.5

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, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.4, 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, 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: 1/30/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2022

Reference Information

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

CWE: 119, 401

RHSA: 2023:0496

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