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.

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

critical Nessus Plugin ID 191951

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Version 1.4 Nov 7, 2024, 8:25 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 9.3) CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 threat vector" set to "CVSS:4.0/E:P") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 vector" set to "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") Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202411072025
Version 1.3 Jun 19, 2024, 9:24 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 9.0) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 8.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") Plugin Feed: 202406190924
Version 1.2 Jun 4, 2024, 3:18 AM Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202406040318
Version 1.1 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.0 Mar 13, 2024, 5:06 AM New Plugin Feed: 202403130506