RHEL 9 : kernel (RHSA-2023:0951)

high Nessus Plugin ID 171978

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-2023:0951 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: use-after-free caused by l2cap_reassemble_sdu() in net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c (CVE-2022-3564)

* kernel: stack overflow in do_proc_dointvec and proc_skip_spaces (CVE-2022-4378)

* kernel: use-after-free in __nfs42_ssc_open() in fs/nfs/nfs4file.c leading to remote Denial of Service attack (CVE-2022-4379)

* kernel: Netfilter integer overflow vulnerability in nft_payload_copy_vlan (CVE-2023-0179)

* kernel: an out-of-bounds vulnerability in i2c-ismt driver (CVE-2022-2873)

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 9.0: LTP Test failure and crash at fork14 on Sapphire Rapids Platinum 8280+ (BZ#2133083)

* RHEL 9.1 Extending NMI watchdog's timer during LPM (BZ#2140085)

* AMDSERVER 9.1: amdpstate driver incorrectly designed to load as default for Genoa (BZ#2151274)

* qla2xxx NVMe-FC: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 124072 at drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c:70 qla2xxx_rel_done_warning+0x25/0x30 [qla2xxx] (BZ#2152178)

* Regression: Kernel panic on Lenovo T480 with AH40 USB-C docking station (BZ#2153277)

* Scheduler Update (rhel9.2) (BZ#2153792)

* RHEL9.1, Nx_Gzip: nr_total_credits is not decremented when processing units are reduced by dlpar in shared mode. (FW1030 / DLPAR) (BZ#2154305)

* MSFT, MANA, NET Patch RHEL-9: Fix race on per-CQ variable napi_iperf panic fix (BZ#2155145)

* Azure vPCI RHEL-9 add the support of multi-MSI (BZ#2155459)

* Azure RHEL-9: VM Deployment Failures Patch Request (BZ#2155930)

* The 'date' command shows wrong time in nested KVM s390x guest (BZ#2158815)

* RHEL-9.2: Update NVMe driver to sync with upstream v6.0 (BZ#2161344)

* CEE cephfs: RHEL9 cephfs client crashing with RIP: 0010:netfs_rreq_unlock+0xef/0x380 [netfs] (BZ#2161418)

* block layer: update with upstream v6.0 (BZ#2162535)

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-2023:0951.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?8c6f1b12

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2119048

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2150999

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2152548

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2152807

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2161713

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0951

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 171978

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-0951.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/28/2023

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: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-0179

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-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, 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

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: 2/28/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2873, CVE-2022-3564, CVE-2022-4378, CVE-2022-4379, CVE-2023-0179

CWE: 131, 190, 416, 787

RHSA: 2023:0951