The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the kernel-5.14.0-437.el9 build changelog.

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/sparsemem: fix race in accessing     memory_section->usage The below race is observed on a PFN which falls into the device memory region with     the system memory configuration where PFN's are such that [ZONE_NORMAL ZONE_DEVICE ZONE_NORMAL]. Since     normal zone start and end pfn contains the device memory PFN's as well, the compaction triggered will try     on the device memory PFN's too though they end up in NOP(because pfn_to_online_page() returns NULL for     ZONE_DEVICE memory sections). When from other core, the section mappings are being removed for the     ZONE_DEVICE region, that the PFN in question belongs to, on which compaction is currently being operated     is resulting into the kernel crash with CONFIG_SPASEMEM_VMEMAP enabled. The crash logs can be seen at [1].
    compact_zone() memunmap_pages ------------- --------------- __pageblock_pfn_to_page ...... (a)pfn_valid():
    valid_section()//return true (b)__remove_pages()-> sparse_remove_section()-> section_deactivate(): [Free     the array ms->usage and set ms->usage = NULL] pfn_section_valid() [Access ms->usage which is NULL] NOTE:
    From the above it can be said that the race is reduced to between the pfn_valid()/pfn_section_valid() and     the section deactivate with SPASEMEM_VMEMAP enabled. The commit b943f045a9af(mm/sparse: fix kernel crash     with pfn_section_valid check) tried to address the same problem by clearing the SECTION_HAS_MEM_MAP with     the expectation of valid_section() returns false thus ms->usage is not accessed. Fix this issue by the     below steps: a) Clear SECTION_HAS_MEM_MAP before freeing the ->usage. b) RCU protected read side critical     section will either return NULL when SECTION_HAS_MEM_MAP is cleared or can successfully access ->usage. c)     Free the ->usage with kfree_rcu() and set ms->usage = NULL. No attempt will be made to access ->usage     after this as the SECTION_HAS_MEM_MAP is cleared thus valid_section() return false. Thanks to David/Pavan     for their inputs on this patch. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-     mm/994410bb-89aa-d987-1f50-f514903c55aa@quicinc.com/ On Snapdragon SoC, with the mentioned memory     configuration of PFN's as [ZONE_NORMAL ZONE_DEVICE ZONE_NORMAL], we are able to see bunch of issues daily     while testing on a device farm. For this particular issue below is the log. Though the below log is not     directly pointing to the pfn_section_valid(){ ms->usage;}, when we loaded this dump on T32 lauterbach     tool, it is pointing. [ 540.578056] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address     0000000000000000 [ 540.578068] Mem abort info: [ 540.578070] ESR = 0x0000000096000005 [ 540.578073] EC =     0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits [ 540.578077] SET = 0, FnV = 0 [ 540.578080] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 [     540.578082] FSC = 0x05: level 1 translation fault [ 540.578085] Data abort info: [ 540.578086] ISV = 0,     ISS = 0x00000005 [ 540.578088] CM = 0, WnR = 0 [ 540.579431] pstate: 82400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO
    -DIT -SSBSBTYPE=--) [ 540.579436] pc : __pageblock_pfn_to_page+0x6c/0x14c [ 540.579454] lr :
    compact_zone+0x994/0x1058 [ 540.579460] sp : ffffffc03579b510 [ 540.579463] x29: ffffffc03579b510 x28:
    0000000000235800 x27:000000000000000c [ 540.579470] x26: 0000000000235c00 x25: 0000000000000068     x24:ffffffc03579b640 [ 540.579477] x23: 0000000000000001 x22: ffffffc03579b660 x21:0000000000000000 [     540.579483] x20: 0000000000235bff x19: ffffffdebf7e3940 x18:ffffffdebf66d140 [ 540.579489] x17:
    00000000739ba063 x16: 00000000739ba063 x15:00000000009f4bff [ 540.579495] x14: 0000008000000000 x13:
    0000000000000000 x12:0000000000000001 [ 540.579501] x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9     :ffffff897d2cd440 [ 540.579507] x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 :ffffffc03579b5b4 [     540.579512] x5 : 0000000000027f25 x4 : ffffffc03579b5b8 x3 :0000000000000 ---truncated--- (CVE-2023-52489)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: usb: smsc75xx: Fix uninit-value     access in __smsc75xx_read_reg syzbot reported the following uninit-value access issue:
    ===================================================== BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in smsc75xx_wait_ready     drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c:975 [inline] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in smsc75xx_bind+0x5c9/0x11e0     drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c:1482 CPU: 0 PID: 8696 Comm: kworker/0:3 Not tainted 5.8.0-rc5-syzkaller #0     Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 Workqueue:
    usb_hub_wq hub_event Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline] dump_stack+0x21c/0x280     lib/dump_stack.c:118 kmsan_report+0xf7/0x1e0 mm/kmsan/kmsan_report.c:121 __msan_warning+0x58/0xa0     mm/kmsan/kmsan_instr.c:215 smsc75xx_wait_ready drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c:975 [inline]     smsc75xx_bind+0x5c9/0x11e0 drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c:1482 usbnet_probe+0x1152/0x3f90     drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1737 usb_probe_interface+0xece/0x1550 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:374     really_probe+0xf20/0x20b0 drivers/base/dd.c:529 driver_probe_device+0x293/0x390 drivers/base/dd.c:701
    __device_attach_driver+0x63f/0x830 drivers/base/dd.c:807 bus_for_each_drv+0x2ca/0x3f0     drivers/base/bus.c:431 __device_attach+0x4e2/0x7f0 drivers/base/dd.c:873 device_initial_probe+0x4a/0x60     drivers/base/dd.c:920 bus_probe_device+0x177/0x3d0 drivers/base/bus.c:491 device_add+0x3b0e/0x40d0     drivers/base/core.c:2680 usb_set_configuration+0x380f/0x3f10 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2032     usb_generic_driver_probe+0x138/0x300 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:241 usb_probe_device+0x311/0x490     drivers/usb/core/driver.c:272 really_probe+0xf20/0x20b0 drivers/base/dd.c:529     driver_probe_device+0x293/0x390 drivers/base/dd.c:701 __device_attach_driver+0x63f/0x830     drivers/base/dd.c:807 bus_for_each_drv+0x2ca/0x3f0 drivers/base/bus.c:431 __device_attach+0x4e2/0x7f0     drivers/base/dd.c:873 device_initial_probe+0x4a/0x60 drivers/base/dd.c:920 bus_probe_device+0x177/0x3d0     drivers/base/bus.c:491 device_add+0x3b0e/0x40d0 drivers/base/core.c:2680 usb_new_device+0x1bd4/0x2a30     drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2554 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5208 [inline] hub_port_connect_change     drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5348 [inline] port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5494 [inline]     hub_event+0x5e7b/0x8a70 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5576 process_one_work+0x1688/0x2140 kernel/workqueue.c:2269     worker_thread+0x10bc/0x2730 kernel/workqueue.c:2415 kthread+0x551/0x590 kernel/kthread.c:292     ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293 Local variable ----buf.i87@smsc75xx_bind created at:
    __smsc75xx_read_reg drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c:83 [inline] smsc75xx_wait_ready     drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c:968 [inline] smsc75xx_bind+0x485/0x11e0 drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c:1482
    __smsc75xx_read_reg drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c:83 [inline] smsc75xx_wait_ready     drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c:968 [inline] smsc75xx_bind+0x485/0x11e0 drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c:1482 This     issue is caused because usbnet_read_cmd() reads less bytes than requested (zero byte in the reproducer).
    In this case, 'buf' is not properly filled. This patch fixes the issue by returning -ENODATA if     usbnet_read_cmd() reads less bytes than requested. (CVE-2023-52528)

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CentOS 9 : kernel-5.14.0-437.el9

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Version 1.1 Dec 13, 2024, 9:53 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 4.6) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 5.5) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H") CVSSv2 severity (based on CVE-2023-52528, severity increased from "Low" to "Medium") CVSSv3 severity (based on None, severity increased from "Low" to "Medium") Plugin Feed: 202412130953
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