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CentOS 7 : linux-firmware (RHSA-2024:0753)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 190366

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0753 advisory.

 - Improper or unexpected behavior of the INVD instruction in some AMD CPUs may allow an attacker with a malicious hypervisor to affect cache line write-back behavior of the CPU leading to a potential loss of guest virtual machine (VM) memory integrity. (CVE-2023-20592)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0753

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 190366

File Name: centos_RHSA-2024-0753.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/9/2024

Updated: 10/9/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-20592

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:iwl6050-firmware, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:iwl105-firmware, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:iwl3945-firmware, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:iwl4965-firmware, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:iwl2030-firmware, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:iwl100-firmware, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:iwl3160-firmware, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:iwl135-firmware, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:linux-firmware, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:iwl1000-firmware, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:iwl6000g2b-firmware, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:iwl7260-firmware, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:iwl5150-firmware, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:iwl6000-firmware, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:iwl2000-firmware, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:iwl5000-firmware, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:iwl6000g2a-firmware

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/9/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-20592

RHSA: 2024:0753