The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:5244 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: UAF in nftables when nft_set_lookup_global triggered after handling named and anonymous sets in     batch requests (CVE-2023-3390)

    * kernel: net/sched: cls_fw component can be exploited as result of failure in tcf_change_indev function     (CVE-2023-3776)

    * 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)

    * hw: amd: Cross-Process Information Leak (CVE-2023-20593)

    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):

    * low memory deadlock with md devices and external (imsm) metadata handling - requires a kernfs     notification backport (BZ#2208540)

    * Intel 8.9 BUG, SPR EMR FHF ACPI: Fix system hang during S3 wakeup (BZ#2218025)

    * OCS 4.8, cephfs kernel crash:  mds_dispatch ceph_handle_snap unable to handle kernel NULL (BZ#2218271)

    * st_gmac: tx-checksum offload on vlan is not consistent with st_gmac interface (BZ#2219907)

    * refcount_t overflow often happens in mem_cgroup_id_get_online() (BZ#2221010)

    * avoid unnecessary page fault retires on shared memory types (BZ#2221100)

    * enable conntrack clash resolution for GRE (BZ#2223542)

    * ice: avoid bonding causing auxiliary plug/unplug under RTNL lock (BZ#2224515)

    * libceph: harden msgr2.1 frame segment length checks [8.x] (BZ#2227073)

    * Important iavf bug fixes July 2023 (BZ#2228161)

    * i40e error: Cannot set interface MAC/vlanid to 1e:b7:e2:02:b1:aa/0 for ifname ens4f0 vf 0: Resource     temporarily unavailable (BZ#2228163)

    * oops on cifs_mount due to null tcon (BZ#2229128)

    * iptables argument --suppl-groups in extension owner does not work in RHEL8 (BZ#2229715)

    * Hyper-V RHEL 8: incomplete fc_transport implementation in storvsc causes null dereference in     fc_timed_out() (BZ#2230743)

    * Withdrawal: GFS2: could not freeze filesystem: -16 (BZ#2231825)

    * RHEL 8 Hyper-V: Excessive hv_storvsc driver logging with srb_status  SRB_STATUS_INTERNAL_ERROR  (0x30)     (BZ#2231988)

    * RHEL-8: crypto: rng - Fix lock imbalance in crypto_del_rng (BZ#2232215)

    * Intel 8.9 iavf: Driver Update (BZ#2232399)

    * Hyper-V RHEL-8 hv_storvsc driver logging excessive storvsc_log events for storvsc_on_io_completion()     function (BZ#2233227)

    Enhancement(s):

    * Intel 8.9 FEAT, EMR perf: Add EMR CPU PMU support (BZ#2230152)

    * Intel 8.9 FEAT, SPR EMR power: Add uncore frequency control driver (BZ#2230158)

    * Intel 8.9 FEAT EMR perf: RAPL PMU support on EMR (BZ#2230162)

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.

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RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2023:5244)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 181621

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Version 1.5 Nov 7, 2024, 11:28 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 9.3) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411072328
Version 1.4 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") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411051829
Version 1.3 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.2 Jan 26, 2024, 11:18 PM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2023-1637,CVE-2023-2002,CVE-2023-3090,CVE-2023-3390,CVE-2023-3776,CVE-2023-4004,CVE-2023-44466,CVE-2023-20593,CVE-2023-35001,CVE-2023-35788") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 9.0. "CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C". "CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H". "CVSSv3 score" set to 8.8) 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 Reference Plugin Feed: 202401262318
Version 1.1 Sep 21, 2023, 2:27 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" changed from 6.7 to 6.8. "CVSSv2 vector" changed from "CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C" to "CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C". "CVSSv3 score" changed from 6.8 to 7.8. "CVSSv3 vector" changed from "CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H" to "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2023-2002" to "CVE-2023-4004") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2023-4004") CVSSv3 severity (based on CVE-2023-4004, severity increased from "Medium" to "High") Plugin Feed: 202309211427
Version 1.1 Jan 26, 2024, 9:00 PM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2023-1637,CVE-2023-2002,CVE-2023-3090,CVE-2023-3390,CVE-2023-3776,CVE-2023-4004,CVE-2023-44466,CVE-2023-20593,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 Reference Plugin Feed: 202401262100
Version 1.0 Sep 19, 2023, 8:07 PM New Plugin Feed: 202309192007