RHEL 9 : kpatch-patch (RHSA-2023:7411)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 186054

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for kpatch-patch.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7411 advisory.

This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel.

Security Fix(es):

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

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

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

* kernel: netfilter: nf_tables_newrule when adding a rule with NFTA_RULE_CHAIN_ID leads to use-after-free (CVE-2023-4147)

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

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.

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 RHEL kpatch-patch package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:7411.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?58ad2da2

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2224048

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2225097

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2225239

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2225275

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2239843

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7411

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 186054

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-7411.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

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: 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-2023-42753

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: 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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-4004

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_64_1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_53_1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_75_1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_70_1, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_58_1

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-2023-3776, CVE-2023-3812, CVE-2023-4004, CVE-2023-4147, CVE-2023-42753

CWE: 416, 787

RHSA: 2023:7411