The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0113 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: use after free in unix_stream_sendpage (CVE-2023-4622)

    * kernel: vmwgfx: reference count issue leads to use-after-free in surface handling (CVE-2023-5633)

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

    * Kernel: UAF during login when accessing the shost ipaddress (CVE-2023-2162)

    * hw amd: Return Address Predictor vulnerability leading to information disclosure (CVE-2023-20569)

    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):

    * Backport OVS l4 Symmetric Hashing to rhel-8 (JIRA:RHEL-12746)

    * Unbounded memory usage by TCP for receive buffers (JIRA:RHEL-15096)

    * various kind of guests freeze on rhel 8.8 (JIRA:RHEL-15121)

    * RHEL 8: netfilter: conntrack: Fix gre tunneling over ipv6  (JIRA:RHEL-15259)

    * NFSv4.1 needs to handle ENOENT error from GETDEVICEINFO (JIRA:RHEL-16407)

    * DM multipath showing failed path for an nvme-o-FC LUN when performing I/O operations (JIRA:RHEL-14718)

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

Analytics

RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2024:0113)

high Nessus Plugin ID 187898

Version 1.4

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Version 1.4 Nov 7, 2024, 11:28 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411072328
Version 1.3 Jun 4, 2024, 3:18 AM Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202406040318
Version 1.2 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.1 Jan 15, 2024, 4:36 PM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2022-36402,CVE-2023-2162,CVE-2023-4622,CVE-2023-5633,CVE-2023-20569,CVE-2023-42753") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202401151636
Version 1.0 Jan 10, 2024, 5:28 PM New Plugin Feed: 202401101728