RHEL 8 : kpatch-patch (RHSA-2024:1278)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 191951

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1278 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: ktls overwrites readonly memory pages when using function splice with a ktls socket as destination (CVE-2024-0646)

* kernel: use-after-free in sch_qfq network scheduler (CVE-2023-4921)

* kernel: IGB driver inadequate buffer size for frames larger than MTU (CVE-2023-45871)

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

* kernel: net/sched: sch_hfsc UAF (CVE-2023-4623)

* kernel: net/sched: sch_qfq component can be exploited if in qfq_change_agg function happens qfq_enqueue overhead (CVE-2023-3611)

* kernel: nf_tables: stack-out-of-bounds-read in nft_byteorder_eval() (CVE-2023-35001)

* kernel: UAF in nftables when nft_set_lookup_global triggered after handling named and anonymous sets in batch requests (CVE-2023-3390)

* kernel: out-of-bounds write in qfq_change_class function (CVE-2023-31436)

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-2024:1278.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 191951

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-1278.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 3/12/2024

Updated: 3/31/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.8

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: 8.4

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:H/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 9.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:A

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-2023-35001

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_116_1, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_113_1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_120_1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_119_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: 3/12/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/28/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-31436, CVE-2023-3390, CVE-2023-35001, CVE-2023-3611, CVE-2023-45871, CVE-2023-4623, CVE-2023-4921, CVE-2023-5178, CVE-2024-0646

CWE: 120, 125, 416, 787

RHSA: 2024:1278

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