RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2023:3388)

high Nessus Plugin ID 176537

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:3388 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: unmap_mapping_range() race with munmap() on VM_PFNMAP mappings leads to stale TLB entry (CVE-2022-39188)

* kernel: use-after-free related to leaf anon_vma double reuse (CVE-2022-42703)

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):

* An application stopped on robust futex used via pthread_mutex_lock() (BZ#2170055)

* dm crypt: backport flags to optionally bypass kcryptd workqueues (BZ#2175202)

* The qede driver changes rx-usecs: to 256 causing performance impact (BZ#2176106)

* Intel QAT Update - (kernel changes) (BZ#2176852)

* Concurrent NVMe scans cause panic with native multipath (BZ#2178244)

* CNB: Update TC subsystem to upstream v5.18 (BZ#2179432)

* Server crashed in cifs_reconnect -> dfs_cache_free_tgts (BZ#2182082)

* WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected cpu_partial_store+0x44/0x80 (BZ#2184771)

* smpboot: Scheduler frequency invariance went wobbly, disabling! on nohz_full CPUs after long run (BZ#2188069)

* kernel-rt: task deadline_test:2526 blocked for more than 600 seconds. (BZ#2188625)

* gfs2: file corruption in large data files (BZ#2188687)

Enhancement(s):

* Add support for no HWP mode into intel_pstate for Sapphire Rapids (SPR) (BZ#2178644)

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 affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 176537

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-3388.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/31/2023

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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-2022-4378

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-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-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, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/31/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/2/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-3564, CVE-2022-39188, CVE-2022-42703, CVE-2022-4378

CWE: 416, 787

RHSA: 2023:3388

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