The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7549 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: bpf: Incorrect verifier pruning leads to unsafe code paths being incorrectly marked as safe     (CVE-2023-2163)

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

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

    * kernel: use-after-free due to race condition occurring in dvb_register_device() (CVE-2022-45884)

    * kernel: use-after-free due to race condition occurring in dvb_net.c (CVE-2022-45886)

    * kernel: use-after-free due to race condition occurring in dvb_ca_en50221.c (CVE-2022-45919)

    * kernel: use-after-free in smb2_is_status_io_timeout() (CVE-2023-1192)

    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):

    * Random delay receiving packets after bringing up VLAN on top of VF with vf-vlan-pruning enabled     (BZ#2240750)

    * bpf_jit_limit hit again (BZ#2243011)

    * HPE Edgeline 920t resets during kdump context when ice driver is loaded and when system is booted with     intel_iommu=on iommu=pt (BZ#2244625)

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-2023:7549)

high Nessus Plugin ID 186369

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