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RHEL 8 : bcc (RHSA-2024:8831)

low Nessus Plugin ID 210348

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for bcc.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:8831 advisory.

 BPF Compiler Collection (BCC) is a toolkit for easier creation of efficient kernel tracing and manipulation programs. BCC uses the extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) tool.

 Security Fix(es):

 * bcc: unprivileged users can force loading of compromised linux headers (CVE-2024-2314)

 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL bcc package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:8831.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2269019

http://www.nessus.org/u?26872db2

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8831

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 210348

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-8831.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/5/2024

Updated: 11/5/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1

Temporal Score: 0.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-2314

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.8

Temporal Score: 2.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bcc-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-bcc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bcc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bcc-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bcc-tools, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/10/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-2314

CWE: 284

RHSA: 2024:8831