RHEL 9 : kernel (RHSA-2023:7370)

high Nessus Plugin ID 186041

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7370 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: tun: bugs for oversize packet when napi frags enabled in tun_napi_alloc_frags (CVE-2023-3812)

* kernel: net/sched: multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-3609, CVE-2023-4128, CVE-2023-4206, CVE-2023-4207, CVE-2023-4208)

* kernel: use after free in nvmet_tcp_free_crypto in NVMe (CVE-2023-5178)

* kernel: netfilter: potential slab-out-of-bound access due to integer underflow (CVE-2023-42753)

* kernel: AMD: Cross-Thread Return Address Predictions (CVE-2022-27672)

* hw: Intel: Gather Data Sampling (GDS) side channel vulnerability (CVE-2022-40982)

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):

* RHEL9.0.z - kdump service failed to start when 32TB lpar is activated with desired_memory 100gb and max memory 32TB. (BZ#2192539)

* RHEL 9.0 - system hang during 6th EEH (BZ#2192561)

* RHEL9.0 - kernel: fix __clear_user() inline assembly constraints (BZ#2192599)

* LPAR is crashed by Phyp when doing DLPAR CPU operations (BZ#2193372)

* RHEL 9.2 - Wrong numa_node is assigned to vpmem device (BZ#2212450)

* Rhel9.2 - drmgr command is failing (BZ#2213789)

* [Intel 9.2] IOMMU: QAT Device Address Translation Issue with Invalidation Completion Ordering (BZ#2221161)

* [RHEL9.3] intel_pstate may provide incorrect scaling values for hybrid capable systems with E-cores disabled (BZ#2221268)

* [DELL SFSS] NVMe-TCP: kernel panic during connect/delete_controller tests (BZ#2227780)

* LPM of RHEL client lpar got failed with error HSCLA2CF in 19th loops (BZ#2230270)

* rbd: exclusive lock blocklisting and osd_request_timeout handling fixes (BZ#2231460)

* openvswitch needs a stable hash in the kernel module (BZ#2232136)

* [Intel 9.3] iavf: Driver Update (BZ#2232387)

* [openvswitch] Add drop reasons to openvswitch (BZ#2233104)

* [RHEL9] Percpu counter usage is gradually getting increasing during podman container recreation (BZ#2233214)

* enable conntrack clash resolution for GRE (BZ#2233799)

* [Hyper-V][RHEL-9] hv_storvsc driver logging excessive storvsc_log events for storvsc_on_io_completion() (BZ#2234834)

* [e1000e] Intel 219-LM need to disable TSO to increase the speed (BZ#2235668)

* Update lpfc 14.2.0.12 for RHEL 9.3 Inbox with 6 bug fixes from 14.2.0.14 (BZ#2235785)

* backport 'Revert softirq: Let ksoftirqd do its job' from upstream (BZ#2236415)

* NAT sport clash in OCP causing 1 second TCP connection establishment delay (BZ#2236513)

* RHEL9.2 RC build - LTP test via SLS suite fails with a crash after running for 19hrs (BZ#2236699)

* Container CPU affinity not set properly on Openshift using RHEL 9.2 (BZ#2236859)

* NFSv4.0 client hangs when server reboot while client had outstanding lock request to the server (BZ#2237841)

* VMs deployed with RT workloads getting interrupted - vmstat_update (BZ#2238026)

* core: backports from upstream (BZ#2238027)

* SCSI updates for RHEL 9.3 (BZ#2238410)

* Regression of 3b8cc6298724 (blk-cgroup: Optimize blkcg_rstat_flush()) (BZ#2238721)

* NOHZ_FULL, and CFS quota co-existance (BZ#2240227)

* Kernel doesn't boot on AWS SEV-SNP enabled instances (BZ#2241202)

* RHEL 9.2 crash issue when creating SR-IOV VFs from E810 in switchdev mode (BZ#2241879)

Enhancement(s):

* [Intel 9.3 FEAT] [EMR] power: Add EMR support to intel_rapl and intel_idle drivers (BZ#2230167, BZ#2230168)

* [Intel 9.3 FEAT] [EMR] power: intel-speed-select tool support for EMR (BZ#2230170)

* [Intel 9.3 FEAT] [EMR] RAS: Add EDAC support for EMR (BZ#2230172)

* [RHEL 9.3 FEAT] update turbostat to upstream 6.3 (BZ#2230174)

* [Lenovo 9.3 FEAT] drivers/nvme - Update to the latest upstream (BZ#2231219)

* [Intel 9.4 FEAT] [EMR] Support intel-uncore-frequency driver (BZ#2239450)

* ice: Enable DPLL support (BZ#2242556)

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: 186041

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-7370.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/21/2023

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: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5178

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-modules-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-64k-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-64k-debug-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-tools-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-modules-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-64k-debug-modules-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-64k-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-cross-headers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-64k-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-uki-virt, 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-64k, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-devel-matched, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-64k-modules-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-64k-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-64k-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-64k-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-uki-virt, 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-64k-debug-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-modules-core, 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, 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:rtla, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-64k-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-64k-devel-matched

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: 11/21/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-27672, CVE-2022-40982, CVE-2023-3609, CVE-2023-3812, CVE-2023-4128, CVE-2023-4206, CVE-2023-4207, CVE-2023-4208, CVE-2023-42753, CVE-2023-5178, CVE-2024-0443

CWE: 200, 402, 415, 416, 787

RHSA: 2023:7370

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