In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: of: check previous kernel's ima-kexec-buffer against memory bounds Presently ima_get_kexec_buffer() doesn't check if the previous kernel's ima-kexec-buffer lies outside the addressable memory range. This can result in a kernel panic if the new kernel is booted with 'mem=X' arg and the ima-kexec-buffer was allocated beyond that range by the previous kernel. The panic is usually of the form below: $ sudo kexec --initrd initrd vmlinux --append='mem=16G' <snip> BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on read at 0xc000c01fff7f0000 Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000837974 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] <snip> NIP [c000000000837974] ima_restore_measurement_list+0x94/0x6c0 LR [c00000000083b55c] ima_load_kexec_buffer+0xac/0x160 Call Trace: [c00000000371fa80] [c00000000083b55c] ima_load_kexec_buffer+0xac/0x160 [c00000000371fb00] [c0000000020512c4] ima_init+0x80/0x108 [c00000000371fb70] [c0000000020514dc] init_ima+0x4c/0x120 [c00000000371fbf0] [c000000000012240] do_one_initcall+0x60/0x2c0 [c00000000371fcc0] [c000000002004ad0] kernel_init_freeable+0x344/0x3ec [c00000000371fda0] [c0000000000128a4] kernel_init+0x34/0x1b0 [c00000000371fe10] [c00000000000ce64] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64 Instruction dump: f92100b8 f92100c0 90e10090 910100a0 4182050c 282a0017 3bc00000 40810330 7c0802a6 fb610198 7c9b2378 f80101d0 <a1240000> 2c090001 40820614 e9240010 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Fix this issue by checking returned PFN range of previous kernel's ima-kexec-buffer with page_is_ram() to ensure correct memory bounds.

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

  - of: check previous kernel's ima-kexec-buffer against memory bounds Presently ima_get_kexec_buffer()     doesn't check if the previous kernel's ima-kexec-buffer lies outside the addressable memory range. This     can result in a kernel panic if the new kernel is booted with 'mem=X' arg and the ima-kexec-buffer was     allocated beyond that range by the previous kernel. The panic is usually of the form below: $ sudo kexec
    --initrd initrd vmlinux --append='mem=16G' <snip> BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on read at     0xc000c01fff7f0000 Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000837974 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig:
    11 [#1] <snip> NIP [c000000000837974] ima_restore_measurement_list+0x94/0x6c0 LR [c00000000083b55c]     ima_load_kexec_buffer+0xac/0x160 Call Trace: [c00000000371fa80] [c00000000083b55c]     ima_load_kexec_buffer+0xac/0x160 [c00000000371fb00] [c0000000020512c4] ima_init+0x80/0x108     [c00000000371fb70] [c0000000020514dc] init_ima+0x4c/0x120 [c00000000371fbf0] [c000000000012240]     do_one_initcall+0x60/0x2c0 [c00000000371fcc0] [c000000002004ad0] kernel_init_freeable+0x344/0x3ec     [c00000000371fda0] [c0000000000128a4] kernel_init+0x34/0x1b0 [c00000000371fe10] [c00000000000ce64]     ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64 Instruction dump: f92100b8 f92100c0 90e10090 910100a0 4182050c 282a0017     3bc00000 40810330 7c0802a6 fb610198 7c9b2378 f80101d0 <a1240000> 2c090001 40820614 e9240010 ---[ end trace     0000000000000000 ]--- Fix this issue by checking returned PFN range of previous kernel's ima-kexec-buffer     with page_is_ram() to ensure correct memory bounds. (CVE-2022-50159)

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

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.15.69-37.134. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2022-008 advisory.

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    i2c: Fix a potential use after free

    Free the adap structure only after we are done using it.This patch just moves the put_device() down a bit     to avoid theuse after free.

    [wsa: added comment to the code, added Fixes tag] (CVE-2019-25162)

    A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Atheros wireless adapter driver in the way a user     forces the ath9k_htc_wait_for_target function to fail with some input messages. This flaw allows a local     user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2022-1679)

    A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel's POSIX CPU timers functionality in the way a user     creates and then deletes the timer in the non-leader thread of the program. This flaw allows a local user     to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2022-2585)

    It was discovered that a nft object or expression could reference a nft set on a different nft table,     leading to a use-after-free once that table was deleted. (CVE-2022-2586)

    A use-after-free flaw was found in route4_change in the net/sched/cls_route.c filter implementation in the     Linux kernel. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system and possibly lead to a local privilege     escalation problem. (CVE-2022-2588)

    Non-transparent sharing of return predictor targets between contexts in some Intel(R) Processors may allow     an authorized user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-26373)

    An issue was found in the Linux kernel in nf_conntrack_irc where the message handling can be confused and     incorrectly matches the message. A firewall may be able to be bypassed when users are using unencrypted     IRC with nf_conntrack_irc configured. (CVE-2022-2663)

    An out-of-bounds memory read flaw was found in the Linux kernel's BPF subsystem in how a user calls the     bpf_tail_call function with a key larger than the max_entries of the map. This flaw allows a local user to     gain unauthorized access to data. (CVE-2022-2905)

    A race condition was found in the Linux kernel's IP framework for transforming packets (XFRM subsystem)     when multiple calls to xfrm_probe_algs occurred simultaneously. This flaw could allow a local attacker to     potentially trigger an out-of-bounds write or leak kernel heap memory by performing an out-of-bounds read     and copying it into a socket. (CVE-2022-3028)

    A use-after-free flaw was found in io_uring in the Linux kernel. This flaw allows a local user to trigger     the issue if a signalfd or binder fd is polled with the io_uring poll due to a lack of io_uring POLLFREE     handling. (CVE-2022-3176)

    A race condition flaw was found in the Linux kernel sound subsystem due to improper locking. It could lead     to a NULL pointer dereference while handling the SNDCTL_DSP_SYNC ioctl. A privileged local user (root or     member of the audio group) could use this flaw to crash the system, resulting in a denial of service     condition. (CVE-2022-3303)

    A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function     devlink_param_set/devlink_param_get of the file net/core/devlink.c of the component IPsec. The     manipulation leads to use after free. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier     VDB-211929 was assigned to this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-3625)

    An issue was discovered in include/asm-generic/tlb.h in the Linux kernel before 5.19. Because of a race     condition (unmap_mapping_range versus munmap), a device driver can free a page while it still has stale     TLB entries. This only occurs in situations with VM_PFNMAP VMAs. (CVE-2022-39188)

    A flaw was found in the x86 KVM subsystem in kvm_steal_time_set_preempted in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the     Linux kernel. Unprivileged guest users can compromise the guest kernel because TLB flush operations are     mishandled in certain KVM_VCPU_PREEMPTED situations. (CVE-2022-39189)

    An issue was discovered in net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c in the Linux kernel before 5.19.6. A denial of     service can occur upon binding to an already bound chain. (CVE-2022-39190)

    A race condition in the Linux kernel's EFI capsule loader driver was found in the way it handled write and     flush operations on the device node of the EFI capsule. A local user could potentially use this flaw to     crash the system. (CVE-2022-40307)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    IB/core: Fix a nested dead lock as part of ODP flow (CVE-2022-48675)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    nvme-tcp: fix UAF when detecting digest errors (CVE-2022-48686)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: sr: fix out-of-bounds read when     setting HMAC data. The SRv6 layer allows defining HMAC data that can later be used to sign IPv6 Segment     Routing Headers. This configuration is realised via netlink through four attributes: SEG6_ATTR_HMACKEYID,     SEG6_ATTR_SECRET, SEG6_ATTR_SECRETLEN and SEG6_ATTR_ALGID. (CVE-2022-48687)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    tcp: TX zerocopy should not sense pfmemalloc status (CVE-2022-48689)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    netfilter: nf_tables: clean up hook list when offload flags check fails (CVE-2022-48691)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    scsi: mpt3sas: Fix use-after-free warning (CVE-2022-48695)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    sched/debug: fix dentry leak in update_sched_domain_debugfs (CVE-2022-48699)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    vfio/type1: Unpin zero pages (CVE-2022-48700)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    USB: core: Prevent nested device-reset calls (CVE-2022-49936)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    cifs: fix small mempool leak in SMB2_negotiate() (CVE-2022-49938)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    vt: Clear selection before changing the font (CVE-2022-49948)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    arm64: cacheinfo: Fix incorrect assignment of signed error value to unsigned fw_level (CVE-2022-49964)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ftrace: Fix NULL pointer dereference in is_ftrace_trampoline when ftrace is dead (CVE-2022-49977)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    net: fix refcount bug in sk_psock_get (2) (CVE-2022-49979)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    HID: hidraw: fix memory leak in hidraw_release() (CVE-2022-49981)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    HID: steam: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in steam_{recv,send}_report (CVE-2022-49984)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    bpf: Don't use tnum_range on array range checking for poke descriptors (CVE-2022-49985)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    scsi: storvsc: Remove WQ_MEM_RECLAIM from storvsc_error_wq (CVE-2022-49986)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    md: call __md_stop_writes in md_stop (CVE-2022-49987)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    xen/privcmd: fix error exit of privcmd_ioctl_dm_op() (CVE-2022-49989)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    mm/hugetlb: avoid corrupting page->mapping in hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte (CVE-2022-49991)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    loop: Check for overflow while configuring loop (CVE-2022-49993)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    bootmem: remove the vmemmap pages from kmemleak in put_page_bootmem (CVE-2022-49994)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    writeback: avoid use-after-free after removing device (CVE-2022-49995)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    btrfs: fix possible memory leak in btrfs_get_dev_args_from_path() (CVE-2022-49996)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    rxrpc: Fix locking in rxrpc's sendmsg (CVE-2022-49998)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    btrfs: fix space cache corruption and potential double allocations (CVE-2022-49999)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    netfilter: flowtable: fix stuck flows on cleanup due to pending work (CVE-2022-50000)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    xfrm: policy: fix metadata dst->dev xmit null pointer dereference (CVE-2022-50004)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    kprobes: don't call disarm_kprobe() for disabled kprobes (CVE-2022-50008)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    drivers:md:fix a potential use-after-free bug (CVE-2022-50022)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    net: genl: fix error path memory leak in policy dumping (CVE-2022-50042)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    net: fix potential refcount leak in ndisc_router_discovery() (CVE-2022-50043)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    netfilter: nf_tables: possible module reference underflow in error path (CVE-2022-50048)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    fs/ntfs3: Fix missing i_op in ntfs_read_mft (CVE-2022-50056)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    fs/ntfs3: Fix NULL deref in ntfs_update_mftmirr (CVE-2022-50057)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ceph: don't leak snap_rwsem in handle_cap_grant (CVE-2022-50059)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    virtio_net: fix memory leak inside XPD_TX with mergeable (CVE-2022-50065)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    btrfs: unset reloc control if transaction commit fails in prepare_to_relocate() (CVE-2022-50067)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    drm/ttm: Fix dummy res NULL ptr deref bug (CVE-2022-50068)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    BPF: Fix potential bad pointer dereference in bpf_sys_bpf() (CVE-2022-50069)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    NFSv4/pnfs: Fix a use-after-free bug in open (CVE-2022-50072)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    tracing/eprobes: Have event probes be consistent with kprobes and uprobes (CVE-2022-50075)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    cifs: Fix memory leak on the deferred close (CVE-2022-50076)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    tracing/eprobes: Do not allow eprobes to use $stack, or % for regs (CVE-2022-50078)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ext4: fix warning in ext4_iomap_begin as race between bmap and write (CVE-2022-50082)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ext4: add EXT4_INODE_HAS_XATTR_SPACE macro in xattr.h (CVE-2022-50083)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    dm raid: fix address sanitizer warning in raid_status (CVE-2022-50084)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    dm raid: fix address sanitizer warning in raid_resume (CVE-2022-50085)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    block: don't allow the same type rq_qos add more than once (CVE-2022-50086)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    firmware: arm_scpi: Ensure scpi_info is not assigned if the probe fails (CVE-2022-50087)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    locking/csd_lock: Change csdlock_debug from early_param to __setup (CVE-2022-50091)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    dm thin: fix use-after-free crash in dm_sm_register_threshold_callback (CVE-2022-50092)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    x86/kprobes: Update kcb status flag after singlestepping (CVE-2022-50096)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    video: fbdev: s3fb: Check the size of screen before memset_io() (CVE-2022-50097)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    sched/core: Do not requeue task on CPU excluded from cpus_mask (CVE-2022-50100)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    sched, cpuset: Fix dl_cpu_busy() panic due to empty cs->cpus_allowed (CVE-2022-50103)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    jbd2: fix assertion 'jh->b_frozen_data == NULL' failure when journal aborted (CVE-2022-50126)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    RDMA/irdma: Fix a window for use-after-free (CVE-2022-50137)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    RDMA/qedr: Fix potential memory leak in __qedr_alloc_mr() (CVE-2022-50138)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    mm/mempolicy: fix get_nodes out of bound access (CVE-2022-50147)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    driver core: fix potential deadlock in __driver_attach (CVE-2022-50149)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    usb: host: Fix refcount leak in ehci_hcd_ppc_of_probe (CVE-2022-50153)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    of: check previous kernel's ima-kexec-buffer against memory bounds (CVE-2022-50159)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    selinux: Add boundary check in put_entry() (CVE-2022-50200)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    PM: hibernate: defer device probing when resuming from hibernation (CVE-2022-50202)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    ext2: Add more validity checks for inode counts (CVE-2022-50205)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    arm64: fix oops in concurrently setting insn_emulation sysctls (CVE-2022-50206)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    md-raid10: fix KASAN warning (CVE-2022-50211)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    netfilter: nf_tables: do not allow CHAIN_ID to refer to another table (CVE-2022-50212)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    netfilter: nf_tables: do not allow SET_ID to refer to another table (CVE-2022-50213)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    scsi: sg: Allow waiting for commands to complete on removed device (CVE-2022-50215)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    bpf: Fix KASAN use-after-free Read in compute_effective_progs (CVE-2022-50219)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    tty: vt: initialize unicode screen buffer (CVE-2022-50222)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    KVM: SVM: Don't BUG if userspace injects an interrupt with GIF=0 (CVE-2022-50228)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    arm64: set UXN on swapper page tables (CVE-2022-50230)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    crypto: arm64/poly1305 - fix a read out-of-bound (CVE-2022-50231)

    In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    arm64: set UXN on swapper page tables (CVE-2022-50232)

    In nf_tables_updtable, if nf_tables_table_enable returns an error, nft_trans_destroy is called to free the     transaction object. nft_trans_destroy() calls list_del(), but the transaction was never placed on a list
    -- the list head is all zeroes, this results in a NULL pointer dereference. (CVE-2023-1095)

    A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's netdevsim device driver, within the scheduling of events. This     issue results from the improper management of a reference count. This may allow an attacker to create a     denial of service condition on the system. (CVE-2023-2019)

    A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem in the way it handled the     extra inode size for extended attributes. This flaw could allow a privileged local user to cause a system     crash or other undefined behaviors. (CVE-2023-2513)

    The upstream advisory describes this issue as follows:

    This vulnerability allows local attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of     the Linux Kernel. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute high-privileged code on the target     system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

    The specific flaw exists within the processing of seg6 attributes. The issue results from the lack of     proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in a read past the end of an allocated buffer.
    An attacker can leverage this in conjunction with other vulnerabilties to escalate privileges and execute     arbitrary code in the context of the kernel. (CVE-2023-2860)

    A use after free vulnerability was found in prepare_to_relocate in fs/btrfs/relocation.c in btrfs in the     Linux Kernel. This possible flaw can be triggered by calling btrfs_ioctl_balance() before calling     btrfs_ioctl_defrag(). (CVE-2023-3111)

    A use-after-free flaw was found in btrfs_get_dev_args_from_path in fs/btrfs/volumes.c in btrfs file-system     in the Linux Kernel. This flaw allows a local attacker with special privileges to cause a system crash or     leak internal kernel information (CVE-2023-4394)

    A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux Kernel. When a disk is removed, bdi_unregister is called to     stop further write-back and waits for associated delayed work to complete. However,     wb_inode_writeback_end() may schedule bandwidth estimation work after this has completed, which can result     in the timer attempting to access the recently freed bdi_writeback. (CVE-2024-0562)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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
250045	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-50159	Nessus	Misc.	high
237324	RHEL 9 : kernel (RHSA-2025:6966)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
166118	Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALASKERNEL-5.15-2022-008)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high

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