The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:4815 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: ipvlan: out-of-bounds write caused by unclear skb->cb (CVE-2023-3090)

    * kernel: cls_flower: out-of-bounds write in fl_set_geneve_opt() (CVE-2023-35788)

    * kernel: OOB access in the Linux kernel's XFS subsystem (CVE-2023-2124)

    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):

    * Windows Server 2019 guest randomly pauses with KVM: entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021, RHEL     8.8GA (BZ#2211657)

    * rbd: avoid fast-diff corruption in snapshot-based mirroring, RHEL 8.9 (BZ#2216772)

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.

Detections

Analytics

RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2023:4815)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 180241

Version 1.3