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Oracle Linux 9 : kernel (ELSA-2024-6567)

high Nessus Plugin ID 207064

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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-2024-6567 advisory.

 - usb-storage: alauda: Check whether the media is initialized (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-43716] {CVE-2024-38619}
 - mm: avoid overflows in dirty throttling logic (Jay Shin) [RHEL-51848 RHEL-50004] {CVE-2024-42131}
 - Revert 'mm/writeback: fix possible divide-by-zero in wb_dirty_limits(), again' (Jay Shin) [RHEL-51701 RHEL-50004] {CVE-2024-42102}
 - mm/writeback: fix possible divide-by-zero in wb_dirty_limits(), again (Jay Shin) [RHEL-42628 RHEL-5619] {CVE-2024-26720}
 - net: fix out-of-bounds access in ops_init (Paolo Abeni) [RHEL-43188 RHEL-46610] {CVE-2024-36883}
 - nvme: avoid double free special payload (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-51311] {CVE-2024-41073}
 - xhci: Handle TD clearing for multiple streams case (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-47894 RHEL-47892] {CVE-2024-40927}
 - Bluetooth: af_bluetooth: Fix deadlock (Bastien Nocera) [RHEL-34161] {CVE-2024-26886}
 - xdp: Remove WARN() from __xdp_reg_mem_model() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-51586] {CVE-2024-42082}
 - nfsd: fix RELEASE_LOCKOWNER (Benjamin Coddington) [RHEL-42578 RHEL-34875] {CVE-2024-26629}
 - net: bridge: mst: fix vlan use-after-free (cki-backport-bot) [RHEL-43729] {CVE-2024-36979}
 - efivarfs: force RO when remounting if SetVariable is not supported (Pavel Reichl) [RHEL-42343 RHEL-26588] {CVE-2023-52463}
 - mm: prevent derefencing NULL ptr in pfn_section_valid() (Jarod Wilson) [RHEL-51140 RHEL-51138] {CVE-2024-41055}
 - mm, kmsan: fix infinite recursion due to RCU critical section (Jarod Wilson) [RHEL-51140 RHEL-51138] {CVE-2024-41055}
 - ppp: reject claimed-as-LCP but actually malformed packets (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-51061 RHEL-51059] {CVE-2024-41044}
 - x86: stop playing stack games in profile_pc() (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-51651] {CVE-2024-42096}
 - PCI/MSI: Fix UAF in msi_capability_init (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-51438] {CVE-2024-41096}
 - iommufd: Fix missing update of domains_itree after splitting iopt_area (Jerry Snitselaar) [RHEL-42518 RHEL-28780] {CVE-2023-52801}
 - mm: cachestat: fix folio read-after-free in cache walk (Nico Pache) [RHEL-41739 RHEL-5619] {CVE-2024-26630}
 - regmap: maple: Fix cache corruption in regcache_maple_drop() (Jaroslav Kysela) [RHEL-43179 RHEL-39706] {CVE-2024-36019}
 - mm: cachestat: fix two shmem bugs (Nico Pache) [RHEL-36912] {CVE-2024-35797}
 - kprobes/x86: Use copy_from_kernel_nofault() to read from unsafe address (Steve Best) [RHEL-42778 RHEL-34985] {CVE-2024-26946}
 - mm/hugetlb: fix missing hugetlb_lock for resv uncharge (Rafael Aquini) [RHEL-43132 RHEL-37467] {CVE-2024-36000}
 - net/sched: Fix UAF when resolving a clash (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-51022 RHEL-51020] {CVE-2024-41040}
 - KVM: SVM: Flush pages under kvm->lock to fix UAF in svm_register_enc_region() (Maxim Levitsky) [RHEL-41462 RHEL-32430] {CVE-2024-35791}
 - cxl/region: Fix memregion leaks in devm_cxl_add_region() (John W. Linville) [RHEL-47965 RHEL-23582] {CVE-2024-40936}
 - x86/coco: Require seeding RNG with RDRAND on CoCo systems (Lenny Szubowicz) [RHEL-42986 RHEL-37269] {CVE-2024-35875}

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-2024-6567.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 207064

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2024-6567.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/12/2024

Updated: 11/2/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-41096

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/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/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/15/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-52463, CVE-2023-52801, CVE-2024-26629, CVE-2024-26630, CVE-2024-26720, CVE-2024-26886, CVE-2024-26946, CVE-2024-35791, CVE-2024-35797, CVE-2024-35875, CVE-2024-36000, CVE-2024-36019, CVE-2024-36883, CVE-2024-36979, CVE-2024-38559, CVE-2024-38619, CVE-2024-40927, CVE-2024-40936, CVE-2024-41040, CVE-2024-41044, CVE-2024-41055, CVE-2024-41073, CVE-2024-41096, CVE-2024-42082, CVE-2024-42096, CVE-2024-42102, CVE-2024-42131

IAVA: 2024-A-0487