A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel Intel’s iSMT SMBus host controller driver in the way it handled the I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_PROC_CALL case (via the ioctl I2C_SMBUS) with malicious input data. This flaw could allow a local user to crash the system.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel Intel's iSMT SMBus host controller driver in     the way it handled the I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_PROC_CALL case (via the ioctl I2C_SMBUS) with malicious input data.
    This flaw could allow a local user to crash the system. (CVE-2022-3077)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Rocky Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2023:0334 advisory.

  - A race condition was found in the Linux kernel's watch queue due to a missing lock in pipe_resize_ring().
    The specific flaw exists within the handling of pipe buffers. The issue results from the lack of proper     locking when performing operations on an object. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system or     escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2022-2959)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's driver for the ASIX AX88179_178A-based USB 2.0/3.0 Gigabit Ethernet     Devices. The vulnerability contains multiple out-of-bounds reads and possible out-of-bounds writes.
    (CVE-2022-2964)

  - The Linux kernel before 5.17.2 mishandles seccomp permissions. The PTRACE_SEIZE code path allows attackers     to bypass intended restrictions on setting the PT_SUSPEND_SECCOMP flag. (CVE-2022-30594)

  - A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel Intel's iSMT SMBus host controller driver in     the way it handled the I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_PROC_CALL case (via the ioctl I2C_SMBUS) with malicious input data.
    This flaw could allow a local user to crash the system. (CVE-2022-3077)

  - An incorrect TLB flush issue was found in the Linux kernel's GPU i915 kernel driver, potentially leading     to random memory corruption or data leaks. This flaw could allow a local user to crash the system or     escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2022-4139)

  - The Linux kernel NFSD implementation prior to versions 5.19.17 and 6.0.2 are vulnerable to buffer     overflow. NFSD tracks the number of pages held by each NFSD thread by combining the receive and send     buffers of a remote procedure call (RPC) into a single array of pages. A client can force the send buffer     to shrink by sending an RPC message over TCP with garbage data added at the end of the message. The RPC     message with garbage data is still correctly formed according to the specification and is passed forward     to handlers. Vulnerable code in NFSD is not expecting the oversized request and writes beyond the     allocated buffer space. CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H (CVE-2022-43945)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Rocky Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2023:0300 advisory.

  - A race condition was found in the Linux kernel's watch queue due to a missing lock in pipe_resize_ring().
    The specific flaw exists within the handling of pipe buffers. The issue results from the lack of proper     locking when performing operations on an object. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system or     escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2022-2959)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's driver for the ASIX AX88179_178A-based USB 2.0/3.0 Gigabit Ethernet     Devices. The vulnerability contains multiple out-of-bounds reads and possible out-of-bounds writes.
    (CVE-2022-2964)

  - The Linux kernel before 5.17.2 mishandles seccomp permissions. The PTRACE_SEIZE code path allows attackers     to bypass intended restrictions on setting the PT_SUSPEND_SECCOMP flag. (CVE-2022-30594)

  - A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel Intel's iSMT SMBus host controller driver in     the way it handled the I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_PROC_CALL case (via the ioctl I2C_SMBUS) with malicious input data.
    This flaw could allow a local user to crash the system. (CVE-2022-3077)

  - An incorrect TLB flush issue was found in the Linux kernel's GPU i915 kernel driver, potentially leading     to random memory corruption or data leaks. This flaw could allow a local user to crash the system or     escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2022-4139)

  - The Linux kernel NFSD implementation prior to versions 5.19.17 and 6.0.2 are vulnerable to buffer     overflow. NFSD tracks the number of pages held by each NFSD thread by combining the receive and send     buffers of a remote procedure call (RPC) into a single array of pages. A client can force the send buffer     to shrink by sending an RPC message over TCP with garbage data added at the end of the message. The RPC     message with garbage data is still correctly formed according to the specification and is passed forward     to handlers. Vulnerable code in NFSD is not expecting the oversized request and writes beyond the     allocated buffer space. CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H (CVE-2022-43945)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of kernel installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2022-3077 advisory.

  - A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel Intel's iSMT SMBus host controller driver in     the way it handled the I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_PROC_CALL case (via the ioctl I2C_SMBUS) with malicious input data.
    This flaw could allow a local user to crash the system. (CVE-2022-3077)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2023-0334 advisory.

    - drm/i915: fix TLB invalidation for Gen12 video and compute engines (Wander Lairson Costa) [2148152     2148153] {CVE-2022-4139}
    - pipe: Fix missing lock in pipe_resize_ring() (Ian Kent) [2141631 2141632] {CVE-2022-2959}
    - net: usb: ax88179_178a: Fix packet receiving (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [2142722 2142723]     {CVE-2022-2964}
    - net: usb: ax88179_178a: Fix out-of-bounds accesses in RX fixup (Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez) [2142722     2142723] {CVE-2022-2964}
    - NFSD: Protect against send buffer overflow in NFSv3 READ (Scott Mayhew) [2141769 2141770]     {CVE-2022-43945}
    - NFSD: Protect against send buffer overflow in NFSv2 READ (Scott Mayhew) [2141769 2141770]     {CVE-2022-43945}
    - NFSD: Protect against send buffer overflow in NFSv3 READDIR (Scott Mayhew) [2141769 2141770]     {CVE-2022-43945}
    - NFSD: Protect against send buffer overflow in NFSv2 READDIR (Scott Mayhew) [2141769 2141770]     {CVE-2022-43945}
    - SUNRPC: Fix svcxdr_init_encode's buflen calculation (Scott Mayhew) [2141769 2141770] {CVE-2022-43945}
    - SUNRPC: Fix svcxdr_init_decode's end-of-buffer calculation (Scott Mayhew) [2141769 2141770]     {CVE-2022-43945}
    - ptrace: Check PTRACE_O_SUSPEND_SECCOMP permission on PTRACE_SEIZE (Oleg Nesterov) [2127881 2121271]     {CVE-2022-30594}
    - i2c: ismt: prevent memory corruption in ismt_access() (David Arcari) [2127532 2125582] {CVE-2022-3077}

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.

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2023:0334 advisory.

  - A race condition was found in the Linux kernel's watch queue due to a missing lock in pipe_resize_ring().
    The specific flaw exists within the handling of pipe buffers. The issue results from the lack of proper     locking when performing operations on an object. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system or     escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2022-2959)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's driver for the ASIX AX88179_178A-based USB 2.0/3.0 Gigabit Ethernet     Devices. The vulnerability contains multiple out-of-bounds reads and possible out-of-bounds writes.
    (CVE-2022-2964)

  - A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel Intel's iSMT SMBus host controller driver in     the way it handled the I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_PROC_CALL case (via the ioctl I2C_SMBUS) with malicious input data.
    This flaw could allow a local user to crash the system. (CVE-2022-3077)

  - The Linux kernel before 5.17.2 mishandles seccomp permissions. The PTRACE_SEIZE code path allows attackers     to bypass intended restrictions on setting the PT_SUSPEND_SECCOMP flag. (CVE-2022-30594)

  - The Linux kernel NFSD implementation prior to versions 5.19.17 and 6.0.2 are vulnerable to buffer     overflow. NFSD tracks the number of pages held by each NFSD thread by combining the receive and send     buffers of a remote procedure call (RPC) into a single array of pages. A client can force the send buffer     to shrink by sending an RPC message over TCP with garbage data added at the end of the message. The RPC     message with garbage data is still correctly formed according to the specification and is passed forward     to handlers. Vulnerable code in NFSD is not expecting the oversized request and writes beyond the     allocated buffer space. CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H (CVE-2022-43945)

  - kernel: i915: Incorrect GPU TLB flush can lead to random memory access (CVE-2022-4139)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2023:0300 advisory.

  - A race condition was found in the Linux kernel's watch queue due to a missing lock in pipe_resize_ring().
    The specific flaw exists within the handling of pipe buffers. The issue results from the lack of proper     locking when performing operations on an object. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system or     escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2022-2959)

  - A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's driver for the ASIX AX88179_178A-based USB 2.0/3.0 Gigabit Ethernet     Devices. The vulnerability contains multiple out-of-bounds reads and possible out-of-bounds writes.
    (CVE-2022-2964)

  - A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel Intel's iSMT SMBus host controller driver in     the way it handled the I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_PROC_CALL case (via the ioctl I2C_SMBUS) with malicious input data.
    This flaw could allow a local user to crash the system. (CVE-2022-3077)

  - The Linux kernel before 5.17.2 mishandles seccomp permissions. The PTRACE_SEIZE code path allows attackers     to bypass intended restrictions on setting the PT_SUSPEND_SECCOMP flag. (CVE-2022-30594)

  - The Linux kernel NFSD implementation prior to versions 5.19.17 and 6.0.2 are vulnerable to buffer     overflow. NFSD tracks the number of pages held by each NFSD thread by combining the receive and send     buffers of a remote procedure call (RPC) into a single array of pages. A client can force the send buffer     to shrink by sending an RPC message over TCP with garbage data added at the end of the message. The RPC     message with garbage data is still correctly formed according to the specification and is passed forward     to handlers. Vulnerable code in NFSD is not expecting the oversized request and writes beyond the     allocated buffer space. CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H (CVE-2022-43945)

  - kernel: i915: Incorrect GPU TLB flush can lead to random memory access (CVE-2022-4139)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:0300 advisory.

    The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with     extremely high determinism requirements.

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: watch queue race condition can lead to privilege escalation (CVE-2022-2959)

    * kernel: memory corruption in AX88179_178A based USB ethernet device. (CVE-2022-2964)

    * kernel: i915: Incorrect GPU TLB flush can lead to random memory access (CVE-2022-4139)

    * kernel: nfsd buffer overflow by RPC message over TCP with garbage data (CVE-2022-43945)

    * kernel: i2c: unbounded length leads to buffer overflow in ismt_access() (CVE-2022-3077)

    * kernel: Unprivileged users may use PTRACE_SEIZE to set PTRACE_O_SUSPEND_SECCOMP option (CVE-2022-30594)

    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.

    Bug Fix(es):

    * DELL EMC: System is not booting into RT Kernel with perc12 [kernel-rt] (BZ#2139863)

    * kernel-rt: update RT source tree to the latest RHEL-9.1.z1 Batch (BZ#2141817)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:0334 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: watch queue race condition can lead to privilege escalation (CVE-2022-2959)

    * kernel: memory corruption in AX88179_178A based USB ethernet device. (CVE-2022-2964)

    * kernel: i915: Incorrect GPU TLB flush can lead to random memory access (CVE-2022-4139)

    * kernel: nfsd buffer overflow by RPC message over TCP with garbage data (CVE-2022-43945)

    * kernel: i2c: unbounded length leads to buffer overflow in ismt_access() (CVE-2022-3077)

    * kernel: Unprivileged users may use PTRACE_SEIZE to set PTRACE_O_SUSPEND_SECCOMP option (CVE-2022-30594)

    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.

    Bug Fix(es):

    * Intel 9.2: Important iavf bug fixes (BZ#2127884)

    * vfio zero page mappings fail after 2M instances (BZ#2128514)

    * nvme-tcp automatic reconnect fails intermittently during EMC powerstore NDU operation (BZ#2131359)

    * ice: Driver Update to 5.19 (BZ#2132070)

    * WARNING: CPU: 116 PID: 3440 at arch/x86/mm/extable.c:105 ex_handler_fprestore+0x3f/0x50 (BZ#2134588)

    * drm: duplicated call of drm_privacy_screen_register_notifier() in drm_connector_register() (BZ#2134619)

    * updating the appid field through sysfs is returning an -EINVAL error (BZ#2136914)

    * DELL EMC: System is not booting into RT Kernel with perc12. (BZ#2139213)

    * No signal showed in the VGA monitor when installing RHEL9 in the legacy bios mode (BZ#2140153)

    * Practically limit Dummy wait workaround to old Intel systems (BZ#2142168)

    * ppc64le: unexpected oom panic when there's enough memory left in zswap test (BZ#2143976)

    * fatal error: error in backend: Branch target out of insn range (BZ#2144902)

    * AMdCLIENT: The kernel command line parameter nomodeset not working properly (BZ#2145217)

    * Azure: PCI: hv: Do not set PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY to reduce VM boot time (BZ#2150910)

    * Azure z-stream: Sometimes newly deployed VMs are not getting accelerated network during provisioning     (BZ#2151605)

    * DELL 9.0 RT - On PE R760 system, call traces are observed dmesg when system is running stress     (BZ#2154407)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
246155	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-3077	Nessus	Misc.	medium
191192	CentOS 9 : kernel-5.14.0-347.el9	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	critical
184999	Rocky Linux 9 : kernel (RLSA-2023:0334)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	high
184587	Rocky Linux 9 : kernel-rt (RLSA-2023:0300)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	high
173523	CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: kernel (CVE-2022-3077)	Nessus	MarinerOS Local Security Checks	medium
170620	Oracle Linux 9 : kernel (ELSA-2023-0334)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
170603	AlmaLinux 9 : kernel (ALSA-2023:0334)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	high
170583	AlmaLinux 9 : kernel-rt (ALSA-2023:0300)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	high
170414	RHEL 9 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2023:0300)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
170404	RHEL 9 : kernel (RHSA-2023:0334)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high

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