The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:4962 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: Use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux Kernel traffic control index filter (CVE-2023-1829)

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

    * kernel: UAF in nftables when nft_set_lookup_global triggered after handling named and anonymous sets in     batch requests (CVE-2023-3390)

    * kernel: netfilter: use-after-free due to improper element removal in nft_pipapo_remove() (CVE-2023-4004)

    * kernel: nf_tables: stack-out-of-bounds-read in nft_byteorder_eval() (CVE-2023-35001)

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

    * Kernel: bluetooth: Unauthorized management command execution (CVE-2023-2002)

    * 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):

    * aacraid misses interrupts when a CPU is disabled resulting in scsi timeouts and the adapter being     unusable until reboot. (BZ#2216500)

    * rbd: avoid fast-diff corruption in snapshot-based mirroring [8.9] (BZ#2216771)

    * refcount_t overflow often happens in mem_cgroup_id_get_online() (BZ#2221012)

    * enable conntrack clash resolution for GRE (BZ#2223544)

    * iavf: Fix race between iavf_close and iavf_reset_task (BZ#2223608)

    * libceph: harden msgr2.1 frame segment length checks [8.x] (BZ#2227075)

    * [i40e] error: Cannot set interface MAC/vlanid to 1e:b7:e2:02:b1:aa/0 for ifname ens4f0 vf 0: Resource     temporarily unavailable (BZ#2228165)

    Enhancement(s):

    * [Intel 8.7 FEAT] TSC: Avoid clock watchdog when not needed (BZ#2216050)

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

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RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2023:4962)

high Nessus Plugin ID 180498

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.3 Nov 7, 2024, 8:25 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 9.3) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411072025
Version 1.2 Nov 5, 2024, 6:29 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 9.3) CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 threat vector" set to "CVSS:4.0/E:P") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 vector" set to "CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411051829
Version 1.1 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2023-1829,CVE-2023-2002,CVE-2023-2124,CVE-2023-3090,CVE-2023-3390,CVE-2023-4004,CVE-2023-44466,CVE-2023-35001,CVE-2023-35788") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 9.0) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 8.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2023-4004" to "CVE-2023-44466") CVSSv2 severity (based on CVE-2023-44466, severity increased from "Medium" to "High") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.0 Sep 5, 2023, 6:05 PM New Plugin Feed: 202309051805