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Oracle Linux 9 : kernel (ELSA-2024-4928)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 204945

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-4928 advisory.

 - mlxbf_gige: call request_irq() after NAPI initialized (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-43012 RHEL-37179] {CVE-2024-35907}
 - mlxbf_gige: stop PHY during open() error paths (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-43012 RHEL-37179] {CVE-2024-35907}
 - mlxbf_gige: stop interface during shutdown (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-41708 RHEL-37244] {CVE-2024-35885}
 - net: amd-xgbe: Fix skb data length underflow (Ken Cox) [RHEL-43796 RHEL-43794] {CVE-2022-48743}
 - nfp: flower: handle acti_netdevs allocation failure (Ken Cox) [RHEL-42852 RHEL-35158] {CVE-2024-27046}
 - block: add check that partition length needs to be aligned with block size (Ming Lei) [RHEL-45501 RHEL-26616] {CVE-2023-52458}
 - icmp: prevent possible NULL dereferences from icmp_build_probe() (Antoine Tenart) [RHEL-42974 RHEL-37002] {CVE-2024-35857}
 - net/ipv6: avoid possible UAF in ip6_route_mpath_notify() (Hangbin Liu) [RHEL-42689 RHEL-33271] {CVE-2024-26852}
 - epoll: be better about file lifetimes (Pavel Reichl) [RHEL-44091 RHEL-44083] {CVE-2024-38580}
 - scsi: lpfc: Release hbalock before calling lpfc_worker_wake_up() (Dick Kennedy) [RHEL-40659 RHEL-40665 RHEL-24508 RHEL-39793] {CVE-2024-36924}
 - scsi: lpfc: Move NPIV's transport unregistration to after resource clean up (Dick Kennedy) [RHEL-40659 RHEL-40669 RHEL-24508 RHEL-39887] {CVE-2024-36952}
 - bpf: Fix racing between bpf_timer_cancel_and_free and bpf_timer_cancel (Viktor Malik) [RHEL-42640 RHEL-31726] {CVE-2024-26737}
 - can: j1939: j1939_netdev_start(): fix UAF for rx_kref of j1939_priv (Ken Cox) [RHEL-41489 RHEL-38415] {CVE-2021-47459}
 - dm: call the resume method on internal suspend (Benjamin Marzinski) [RHEL-41838 RHEL-33217] {CVE-2024-26880}
 - octeontx2-af: Use separate handlers for interrupts (Kamal Heib) [RHEL-42846 RHEL-35170] {CVE-2024-27030}
 - Squashfs: check the inode number is not the invalid value of zero (Abhi Das) [RHEL-42811 RHEL-35098] {CVE-2024-26982}
 - ext4: avoid allocating blocks from corrupted group in ext4_mb_try_best_found() (Pavel Reichl) [RHEL-42655 RHEL-31690] {CVE-2024-26773}
 - scsi: libfc: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in fc_lport_ptp_setup() (John Meneghini) [RHEL-42528 RHEL-38200] {CVE-2023-52809}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2024-4928.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 204945

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2024-4928.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/1/2024

Updated: 11/2/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-52809

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rtla, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-cross-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-modules, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:rv, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-uki-virt, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-modules-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-modules, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel-matched, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-abi-stablelists, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::codeready_builder, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel-matched, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-modules-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uki-virt, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libperf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bpftool, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-core, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9:4:baseos_patch, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-modules-extra, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9::baseos_latest, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel

Required KB Items: Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/31/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/15/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-47459, CVE-2022-48743, CVE-2023-52458, CVE-2023-52809, CVE-2024-26737, CVE-2024-26773, CVE-2024-26852, CVE-2024-26880, CVE-2024-26982, CVE-2024-27030, CVE-2024-27046, CVE-2024-35857, CVE-2024-35885, CVE-2024-35907, CVE-2024-36924, CVE-2024-36952, CVE-2024-38580