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RHEL 6 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2015:1976)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 86716

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2015:1976 advisory.

 The kernel-rt packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

 * A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's VFS subsystem handled file system locks. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to trigger a deadlock in the kernel, causing a denial of service on the system.
 (CVE-2014-8559, Moderate)

 This update provides a build of the kernel-rt package for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5 that is layered on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and fixes the following issues:

 * Unexpected completion is detected on Intel Ethernet x540

 * Divide by zero error in intel_pstate_timer_func() [ inline s64 div_s64_rem() ]

 * NFS Recover from stateid-type error on SETATTR

 * pNFS RHEL 7.1 Data Server connection remains after umount due to lseg refcount leak

 * Race during NFS v4.0 recovery and standard IO.

 * Fix ip6t_SYNPROXY for namespaces and connection delay

 * synproxy window size and sequence number behaviour causes long connection delay

 * Crash in kmem_cache_alloc() during disk stress testing (using ipr)

 * xfs: sync/backport to upstream v4.1

 * iscsi_session recovery_tmo revert back to default when a path becomes active

 * read from MD raid1 can fail if read from resync target fails

 * backport scsi-mq

 * unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000237037 [zswap]

 (BZ#1267373)

 All kernel-rt users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues and add this enhancement. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

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 affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?8e30e687

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1976

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1159313

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1267373

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 86716

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2015-1976.nasl

Version: 2.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/4/2015

Updated: 6/3/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-8559

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-trace-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-vanilla-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-firmware, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-trace, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-vanilla

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: 11/3/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/10/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8559

RHSA: 2015:1976