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RHEL 8 : bpftrace (RHSA-2024:8830)
low Nessus Plugin ID 210369
Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for bpftrace.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:8830 advisory.BPFtrace is a high-level tracing language for Linux enhanced Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) available in recent Linux kernels (4.x). BPFtrace uses LLVM as a backend to compile scripts to BPF-bytecode and makes use of BCC for interacting with the Linux BPF system, as well as existing Linux tracing capabilities:
kernel dynamic tracing (kprobes), user-level dynamic tracing (uprobes), and tracepoints. The BPFtrace language is inspired by awk and C, and predecessor tracers such as DTrace and SystemTap
Security Fix(es):
* bpftrace: unprivileged users can force loading of compromised linux headers (CVE-2024-2313)
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 bpftrace package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:8830.See Also
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2269014
Plugin Details
Severity: Low
ID: 210369
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-8830.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
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-2024-2313
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:bpftrace, 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-2024-2313