In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efivarfs: force RO when remounting if SetVariable is not supported If SetVariable at runtime is not supported by the firmware we never assign a callback for that function. At the same time mount the efivarfs as RO so no one can call that. However, we never check the permission flags when someone remounts the filesystem as RW. As a result this leads to a crash looking like this: $ mount -o remount,rw /sys/firmware/efi/efivars $ efi-updatevar -f PK.auth PK [ 303.279166] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000 [ 303.280482] Mem abort info: [ 303.280854] ESR = 0x0000000086000004 [ 303.281338] EC = 0x21: IABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits [ 303.282016] SET = 0, FnV = 0 [ 303.282414] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 [ 303.282821] FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault [ 303.283771] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=000000004258c000 [ 303.284913] [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000 [ 303.286076] Internal error: Oops: 0000000086000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 303.286936] Modules linked in: qrtr tpm_tis tpm_tis_core crct10dif_ce arm_smccc_trng rng_core drm fuse ip_tables x_tables ipv6 [ 303.288586] CPU: 1 PID: 755 Comm: efi-updatevar Not tainted 6.3.0-rc1-00108-gc7d0c4695c68 #1 [ 303.289748] Hardware name: Unknown Unknown Product/Unknown Product, BIOS 2023.04-00627-g88336918701d 04/01/2023 [ 303.291150] pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 303.292123] pc : 0x0 [ 303.292443] lr : efivar_set_variable_locked+0x74/0xec [ 303.293156] sp : ffff800008673c10 [ 303.293619] x29: ffff800008673c10 x28: ffff0000037e8000 x27: 0000000000000000 [ 303.294592] x26: 0000000000000800 x25: ffff000002467400 x24: 0000000000000027 [ 303.295572] x23: ffffd49ea9832000 x22: ffff0000020c9800 x21: ffff000002467000 [ 303.296566] x20: 0000000000000001 x19: 00000000000007fc x18: 0000000000000000 [ 303.297531] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000aaaac807ab54 [ 303.298495] x14: ed37489f673633c0 x13: 71c45c606de13f80 x12: 47464259e219acf4 [ 303.299453] x11: ffff000002af7b01 x10: 0000000000000003 x9 : 0000000000000002 [ 303.300431] x8 : 0000000000000010 x7 : ffffd49ea8973230 x6 : 0000000000a85201 [ 303.301412] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : ffff0000020c9800 x3 : 00000000000007fc [ 303.302370] x2 : 0000000000000027 x1 : ffff000002467400 x0 : ffff000002467000 [ 303.303341] Call trace: [ 303.303679] 0x0 [ 303.303938] efivar_entry_set_get_size+0x98/0x16c [ 303.304585] efivarfs_file_write+0xd0/0x1a4 [ 303.305148] vfs_write+0xc4/0x2e4 [ 303.305601] ksys_write+0x70/0x104 [ 303.306073] __arm64_sys_write+0x1c/0x28 [ 303.306622] invoke_syscall+0x48/0x114 [ 303.307156] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x44/0xec [ 303.307803] do_el0_svc+0x38/0x98 [ 303.308268] el0_svc+0x2c/0x84 [ 303.308702] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xf4/0x120 [ 303.309293] el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 [ 303.309794] Code: ???????? ???????? ???????? ???????? (????????) [ 303.310612] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Fix this by adding a .reconfigure() function to the fs operations which we can use to check the requested flags and deny anything that's not RO if the firmware doesn't implement SetVariable at runtime.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-519 advisory.

  - Transmit requests in Xen's virtual network protocol can consist of multiple parts. While not really     useful, except for the initial part any of them may be of zero length, i.e. carry no data at all. Besides     a certain initial portion of the to be transferred data, these parts are directly translated into what     Linux calls SKB fragments. Such converted request parts can, when for a particular SKB they are all of     length zero, lead to a de-reference of NULL in core networking code. (CVE-2023-46838)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: uio: Fix use-after-free in uio_open     core-1 core-2 ------------------------------------------------------- uio_unregister_device uio_open idev     = idr_find() device_unregister(&idev->dev) put_device(&idev->dev) uio_device_release     get_device(&idev->dev) kfree(idev) uio_free_minor(minor) uio_release put_device(&idev->dev) kfree(idev)
    ------------------------------------------------------- In the core-1 uio_unregister_device(), the     device_unregister will kfree idev when the idev->dev kobject ref is 1. But after core-1 device_unregister,     put_device and before doing kfree, the core-2 may get_device. Then: 1. After core-1 kfree idev, the core-2     will do use-after-free for idev. 2. When core-2 do uio_release and put_device, the idev will be double     freed. To address this issue, we can get idev atomic & inc idev reference with minor_lock.
    (CVE-2023-52439)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Defer the free of inner map when     necessary When updating or deleting an inner map in map array or map htab, the map may still be accessed     by non-sleepable program or sleepable program. However bpf_map_fd_put_ptr() decreases the ref-counter of     the inner map directly through bpf_map_put(), if the ref-counter is the last one (which is true for most     cases), the inner map will be freed by ops->map_free() in a kworker. But for now, most .map_free()     callbacks don't use synchronize_rcu() or its variants to wait for the elapse of a RCU grace period, so     after the invocation of ops->map_free completes, the bpf program which is accessing the inner map may     incur use-after-free problem. Fix the free of inner map by invoking bpf_map_free_deferred() after both one     RCU grace period and one tasks trace RCU grace period if the inner map has been removed from the outer map     before. The deferment is accomplished by using call_rcu() or call_rcu_tasks_trace() when releasing the     last ref-counter of bpf map. The newly-added rcu_head field in bpf_map shares the same storage space with     work field to reduce the size of bpf_map. (CVE-2023-52447)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: add check that partition length     needs to be aligned with block size Before calling add partition or resize partition, there is no check on     whether the length is aligned with the logical block size. If the logical block size of the disk is larger     than 512 bytes, then the partition size maybe not the multiple of the logical block size, and when the     last sector is read, bio_truncate() will adjust the bio size, resulting in an IO error if the size of the     read command is smaller than the logical block size.If integrity data is supported, this will also result     in a null pointer dereference when calling bio_integrity_free. (CVE-2023-52458)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: fix check for attempt to corrupt     spilled pointer When register is spilled onto a stack as a 1/2/4-byte register, we set     slot_type[BPF_REG_SIZE - 1] (plus potentially few more below it, depending on actual spill size). So to     check if some stack slot has spilled register we need to consult slot_type[7], not slot_type[0]. To avoid     the need to remember and double-check this in the future, just use is_spilled_reg() helper.
    (CVE-2023-52462)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efivarfs: force RO when remounting if     SetVariable is not supported If SetVariable at runtime is not supported by the firmware we never assign a     callback for that function. At the same time mount the efivarfs as RO so no one can call that. However, we     never check the permission flags when someone remounts the filesystem as RW. As a result this leads to a     crash looking like this: $ mount -o remount,rw /sys/firmware/efi/efivars $ efi-updatevar -f PK.auth PK [     303.279166] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000 [     303.280482] Mem abort info: [ 303.280854] ESR = 0x0000000086000004 [ 303.281338] EC = 0x21: IABT (current     EL), IL = 32 bits [ 303.282016] SET = 0, FnV = 0 [ 303.282414] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 [ 303.282821] FSC = 0x04:
    level 0 translation fault [ 303.283771] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=000000004258c000 [     303.284913] [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000 [ 303.286076] Internal error:
    Oops: 0000000086000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 303.286936] Modules linked in: qrtr tpm_tis tpm_tis_core     crct10dif_ce arm_smccc_trng rng_core drm fuse ip_tables x_tables ipv6 [ 303.288586] CPU: 1 PID: 755 Comm:
    efi-updatevar Not tainted 6.3.0-rc1-00108-gc7d0c4695c68 #1 [ 303.289748] Hardware name: Unknown Unknown     Product/Unknown Product, BIOS 2023.04-00627-g88336918701d 04/01/2023 [ 303.291150] pstate: 60400005 (nZCv     daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 303.292123] pc : 0x0 [ 303.292443] lr :
    efivar_set_variable_locked+0x74/0xec [ 303.293156] sp : ffff800008673c10 [ 303.293619] x29:
    ffff800008673c10 x28: ffff0000037e8000 x27: 0000000000000000 [ 303.294592] x26: 0000000000000800 x25:
    ffff000002467400 x24: 0000000000000027 [ 303.295572] x23: ffffd49ea9832000 x22: ffff0000020c9800 x21:
    ffff000002467000 [ 303.296566] x20: 0000000000000001 x19: 00000000000007fc x18: 0000000000000000 [     303.297531] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000aaaac807ab54 [ 303.298495] x14:
    ed37489f673633c0 x13: 71c45c606de13f80 x12: 47464259e219acf4 [ 303.299453] x11: ffff000002af7b01 x10:
    0000000000000003 x9 : 0000000000000002 [ 303.300431] x8 : 0000000000000010 x7 : ffffd49ea8973230 x6 :
    0000000000a85201 [ 303.301412] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : ffff0000020c9800 x3 : 00000000000007fc [     303.302370] x2 : 0000000000000027 x1 : ffff000002467400 x0 : ffff000002467000 [ 303.303341] Call trace: [     303.303679] 0x0 [ 303.303938] efivar_entry_set_get_size+0x98/0x16c [ 303.304585]     efivarfs_file_write+0xd0/0x1a4 [ 303.305148] vfs_write+0xc4/0x2e4 [ 303.305601] ksys_write+0x70/0x104 [     303.306073] __arm64_sys_write+0x1c/0x28 [ 303.306622] invoke_syscall+0x48/0x114 [ 303.307156]     el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x44/0xec [ 303.307803] do_el0_svc+0x38/0x98 [ 303.308268] el0_svc+0x2c/0x84 [     303.308702] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xf4/0x120 [ 303.309293] el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 [ 303.309794] Code:
    ???????? ???????? ???????? ???????? (????????) [ 303.310612] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Fix this     by adding a .reconfigure() function to the fs operations which we can use to check the requested flags and     deny anything that's not RO if the firmware doesn't implement SetVariable at runtime. (CVE-2023-52463)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mfd: syscon: Fix null pointer     dereference in of_syscon_register() kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory which     can be NULL upon failure. (CVE-2023-52467)

  - A Null pointer dereference problem was found in ida_free in lib/idr.c in the Linux Kernel. This issue may     allow an attacker using this library to cause a denial of service problem due to a missing check at a     function return. (CVE-2023-6915)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's netfilter: nf_tables component can be exploited to     achieve local privilege escalation. The nft_setelem_catchall_deactivate() function checks whether the     catch-all set element is active in the current generation instead of the next generation before freeing     it, but only flags it inactive in the next generation, making it possible to free the element multiple     times, leading to a double free vulnerability. We recommend upgrading past commit     b1db244ffd041a49ecc9618e8feb6b5c1afcdaa7. (CVE-2024-1085)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Reject variable offset alu on     PTR_TO_FLOW_KEYS For PTR_TO_FLOW_KEYS, check_flow_keys_access() only uses fixed off for validation.
    However, variable offset ptr alu is not prohibited for this ptr kind. So the variable offset is not     checked. The following prog is accepted: func#0 @0 0: R1=ctx() R10=fp0 0: (bf) r6 = r1 ; R1=ctx()     R6_w=ctx() 1: (79) r7 = *(u64 *)(r6 +144) ; R6_w=ctx() R7_w=flow_keys() 2: (b7) r8 = 1024 ; R8_w=1024 3:
    (37) r8 /= 1 ; R8_w=scalar() 4: (57) r8 &= 1024 ; R8_w=scalar(smin=smin32=0,     smax=umax=smax32=umax32=1024,var_off=(0x0; 0x400)) 5: (0f) r7 += r8 mark_precise: frame0: last_idx 5     first_idx 0 subseq_idx -1 mark_precise: frame0: regs=r8 stack= before 4: (57) r8 &= 1024 mark_precise:
    frame0: regs=r8 stack= before 3: (37) r8 /= 1 mark_precise: frame0: regs=r8 stack= before 2: (b7) r8 =     1024 6: R7_w=flow_keys(smin=smin32=0,smax=umax=smax32=umax32=1024,var_off =(0x0; 0x400))     R8_w=scalar(smin=smin32=0,smax=umax=smax32=umax32=1024, var_off=(0x0; 0x400)) 6: (79) r0 = *(u64 *)(r7 +0)     ; R0_w=scalar() 7: (95) exit This prog loads flow_keys to r7, and adds the variable offset r8 to r7, and     finally causes out-of-bounds access: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc90014c80038 [...]     Call Trace: <TASK> bpf_dispatcher_nop_func include/linux/bpf.h:1231 [inline] __bpf_prog_run     include/linux/filter.h:651 [inline] bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:658 [inline]     bpf_prog_run_pin_on_cpu include/linux/filter.h:675 [inline] bpf_flow_dissect+0x15f/0x350     net/core/flow_dissector.c:991 bpf_prog_test_run_flow_dissector+0x39d/0x620 net/bpf/test_run.c:1359     bpf_prog_test_run kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4107 [inline] __sys_bpf+0xf8f/0x4560 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5475
    __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5561 [inline] __se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5559 [inline]
    __x64_sys_bpf+0x73/0xb0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5559 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]     do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b Fix this by     rejecting ptr alu with variable offset on flow_keys. Applying the patch rejects the program with R7     pointer arithmetic on flow_keys prohibited. (CVE-2024-26589)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix re-attachment branch in     bpf_tracing_prog_attach The following case can cause a crash due to missing attach_btf: 1) load rawtp     program 2) load fentry program with rawtp as target_fd 3) create tracing link for fentry program with     target_fd = 0 4) repeat 3 In the end we have: - prog->aux->dst_trampoline == NULL - tgt_prog == NULL     (because we did not provide target_fd to link_create) - prog->aux->attach_btf == NULL (the program was     loaded with attach_prog_fd=X) - the program was loaded for tgt_prog but we have no way to find out which     one BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000058 Call Trace: <TASK> ? __die+0x20/0x70 ?     page_fault_oops+0x15b/0x430 ? fixup_exception+0x22/0x330 ? exc_page_fault+0x6f/0x170 ?     asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 ? bpf_tracing_prog_attach+0x279/0x560 ? btf_obj_id+0x5/0x10     bpf_tracing_prog_attach+0x439/0x560 __sys_bpf+0x1cf4/0x2de0 __x64_sys_bpf+0x1c/0x30     do_syscall_64+0x41/0xf0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76 Return -EINVAL in this situation.
    (CVE-2024-26591)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Avoid potential     UAF in LPI translation cache There is a potential UAF scenario in the case of an LPI translation cache hit     racing with an operation that invalidates the cache, such as a DISCARD ITS command. The root of the     problem is that vgic_its_check_cache() does not elevate the refcount on the vgic_irq before dropping the     lock that serializes refcount changes. Have vgic_its_check_cache() raise the refcount on the returned     vgic_irq and add the corresponding decrement after queueing the interrupt. (CVE-2024-26598)

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 host is prior to 5.10.209-198.812. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2024-048 advisory.

  - Transmit requests in Xen's virtual network protocol can consist of multiple parts. While not really     useful, except for the initial part any of them may be of zero length, i.e. carry no data at all. Besides     a certain initial portion of the to be transferred data, these parts are directly translated into what     Linux calls SKB fragments. Such converted request parts can, when for a particular SKB they are all of     length zero, lead to a de-reference of NULL in core networking code. (CVE-2023-46838)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: uio: Fix use-after-free in uio_open     core-1 core-2 ------------------------------------------------------- uio_unregister_device uio_open idev     = idr_find() device_unregister(&idev->dev) put_device(&idev->dev) uio_device_release     get_device(&idev->dev) kfree(idev) uio_free_minor(minor) uio_release put_device(&idev->dev) kfree(idev)
    ------------------------------------------------------- In the core-1 uio_unregister_device(), the     device_unregister will kfree idev when the idev->dev kobject ref is 1. But after core-1 device_unregister,     put_device and before doing kfree, the core-2 may get_device. Then: 1. After core-1 kfree idev, the core-2     will do use-after-free for idev. 2. When core-2 do uio_release and put_device, the idev will be double     freed. To address this issue, we can get idev atomic & inc idev reference with minor_lock.
    (CVE-2023-52439)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gfs2: Fix kernel NULL pointer     dereference in gfs2_rgrp_dump Syzkaller has reported a NULL pointer dereference when accessing rgd->rd_rgl     in gfs2_rgrp_dump(). This can happen when creating rgd->rd_gl fails in read_rindex_entry(). Add a NULL     pointer check in gfs2_rgrp_dump() to prevent that. (CVE-2023-52448)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: fix check for attempt to corrupt     spilled pointer When register is spilled onto a stack as a 1/2/4-byte register, we set     slot_type[BPF_REG_SIZE - 1] (plus potentially few more below it, depending on actual spill size). So to     check if some stack slot has spilled register we need to consult slot_type[7], not slot_type[0]. To avoid     the need to remember and double-check this in the future, just use is_spilled_reg() helper.
    (CVE-2023-52462)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efivarfs: force RO when remounting if     SetVariable is not supported If SetVariable at runtime is not supported by the firmware we never assign a     callback for that function. At the same time mount the efivarfs as RO so no one can call that. However, we     never check the permission flags when someone remounts the filesystem as RW. As a result this leads to a     crash looking like this: $ mount -o remount,rw /sys/firmware/efi/efivars $ efi-updatevar -f PK.auth PK [     303.279166] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000 [     303.280482] Mem abort info: [ 303.280854] ESR = 0x0000000086000004 [ 303.281338] EC = 0x21: IABT (current     EL), IL = 32 bits [ 303.282016] SET = 0, FnV = 0 [ 303.282414] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 [ 303.282821] FSC = 0x04:
    level 0 translation fault [ 303.283771] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=000000004258c000 [     303.284913] [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000 [ 303.286076] Internal error:
    Oops: 0000000086000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 303.286936] Modules linked in: qrtr tpm_tis tpm_tis_core     crct10dif_ce arm_smccc_trng rng_core drm fuse ip_tables x_tables ipv6 [ 303.288586] CPU: 1 PID: 755 Comm:
    efi-updatevar Not tainted 6.3.0-rc1-00108-gc7d0c4695c68 #1 [ 303.289748] Hardware name: Unknown Unknown     Product/Unknown Product, BIOS 2023.04-00627-g88336918701d 04/01/2023 [ 303.291150] pstate: 60400005 (nZCv     daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 303.292123] pc : 0x0 [ 303.292443] lr :
    efivar_set_variable_locked+0x74/0xec [ 303.293156] sp : ffff800008673c10 [ 303.293619] x29:
    ffff800008673c10 x28: ffff0000037e8000 x27: 0000000000000000 [ 303.294592] x26: 0000000000000800 x25:
    ffff000002467400 x24: 0000000000000027 [ 303.295572] x23: ffffd49ea9832000 x22: ffff0000020c9800 x21:
    ffff000002467000 [ 303.296566] x20: 0000000000000001 x19: 00000000000007fc x18: 0000000000000000 [     303.297531] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000aaaac807ab54 [ 303.298495] x14:
    ed37489f673633c0 x13: 71c45c606de13f80 x12: 47464259e219acf4 [ 303.299453] x11: ffff000002af7b01 x10:
    0000000000000003 x9 : 0000000000000002 [ 303.300431] x8 : 0000000000000010 x7 : ffffd49ea8973230 x6 :
    0000000000a85201 [ 303.301412] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : ffff0000020c9800 x3 : 00000000000007fc [     303.302370] x2 : 0000000000000027 x1 : ffff000002467400 x0 : ffff000002467000 [ 303.303341] Call trace: [     303.303679] 0x0 [ 303.303938] efivar_entry_set_get_size+0x98/0x16c [ 303.304585]     efivarfs_file_write+0xd0/0x1a4 [ 303.305148] vfs_write+0xc4/0x2e4 [ 303.305601] ksys_write+0x70/0x104 [     303.306073] __arm64_sys_write+0x1c/0x28 [ 303.306622] invoke_syscall+0x48/0x114 [ 303.307156]     el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x44/0xec [ 303.307803] do_el0_svc+0x38/0x98 [ 303.308268] el0_svc+0x2c/0x84 [     303.308702] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xf4/0x120 [ 303.309293] el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 [ 303.309794] Code:
    ???????? ???????? ???????? ???????? (????????) [ 303.310612] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Fix this     by adding a .reconfigure() function to the fs operations which we can use to check the requested flags and     deny anything that's not RO if the firmware doesn't implement SetVariable at runtime. (CVE-2023-52463)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mfd: syscon: Fix null pointer     dereference in of_syscon_register() kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory which     can be NULL upon failure. (CVE-2023-52467)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drivers/amd/pm: fix a use-after-free     in kv_parse_power_table When ps allocated by kzalloc equals to NULL, kv_parse_power_table frees     adev->pm.dpm.ps that allocated before. However, after the control flow goes through the following call     chains: kv_parse_power_table |-> kv_dpm_init |-> kv_dpm_sw_init |-> kv_dpm_fini The adev->pm.dpm.ps is     used in the for loop of kv_dpm_fini after its first free in kv_parse_power_table and causes a use-after-     free bug. (CVE-2023-52469)

  - An out-of-bounds access vulnerability involving netfilter was reported and fixed as: f1082dd31fe4     (netfilter: nf_tables: Reject tables of unsupported family); While creating a new netfilter table, lack of     a safeguard against invalid nf_tables family (pf) values within `nf_tables_newtable` function enables an     attacker to achieve out-of-bounds access. (CVE-2023-6040)

  - A Null pointer dereference problem was found in ida_free in lib/idr.c in the Linux Kernel. This issue may     allow an attacker using this library to cause a denial of service problem due to a missing check at a     function return. (CVE-2023-6915)

  - An out-of-bounds memory read flaw was found in receive_encrypted_standard in fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c in     the SMB Client sub-component in the Linux Kernel. This issue occurs due to integer underflow on the memcpy     length, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2024-0565)

  - A flaw was found in the Netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel. The issue is in the nft_byteorder_eval()     function, where the code iterates through a loop and writes to the `dst` array. On each iteration, 8 bytes     are written, but `dst` is an array of u32, so each element only has space for 4 bytes. That means every     iteration overwrites part of the previous element corrupting this array of u32. This flaw allows a local     user to cause a denial of service or potentially break NetFilter functionality. (CVE-2024-0607)

  - An out-of-bounds memory write flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Transport Layer Security functionality     in how a user calls a function splice with a ktls socket as the destination. This flaw allows a local user     to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2024-0646)

  - In rds_recv_track_latency in net/rds/af_rds.c in the Linux kernel through 6.7.1, there is an off-by-one     error for an RDS_MSG_RX_DGRAM_TRACE_MAX comparison, resulting in out-of-bounds access. (CVE-2024-23849)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mlxsw: spectrum_acl_tcam: Fix stack     corruption When tc filters are first added to a net device, the corresponding local port gets bound to an     ACL group in the device. The group contains a list of ACLs. In turn, each ACL points to a different TCAM     region where the filters are stored. During forwarding, the ACLs are sequentially evaluated until a match     is found. One reason to place filters in different regions is when they are added with decreasing     priorities and in an alternating order so that two consecutive filters can never fit in the same region     because of their key usage. In Spectrum-2 and newer ASICs the firmware started to report that the maximum     number of ACLs in a group is more than 16, but the layout of the register that configures ACL groups     (PAGT) was not updated to account for that. It is therefore possible to hit stack corruption [1] in the     rare case where more than 16 ACLs in a group are required. Fix by limiting the maximum ACL group size to     the minimum between what the firmware reports and the maximum ACLs that fit in the PAGT register. Add a     test case to make sure the machine does not crash when this condition is hit. [1] Kernel panic - not     syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_group_update+0x116/0x120 [...]     dump_stack_lvl+0x36/0x50 panic+0x305/0x330 __stack_chk_fail+0x15/0x20     mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_group_update+0x116/0x120 mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_group_region_attach+0x69/0x110     mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_vchunk_get+0x492/0xa20 mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_ventry_add+0x25/0xe0     mlxsw_sp_acl_rule_add+0x47/0x240 mlxsw_sp_flower_replace+0x1a9/0x1d0 tc_setup_cb_add+0xdc/0x1c0     fl_hw_replace_filter+0x146/0x1f0 fl_change+0xc17/0x1360 tc_new_tfilter+0x472/0xb90     rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x313/0x3b0 netlink_rcv_skb+0x58/0x100 netlink_unicast+0x244/0x390     netlink_sendmsg+0x1e4/0x440 ____sys_sendmsg+0x164/0x260 ___sys_sendmsg+0x9a/0xe0 __sys_sendmsg+0x7a/0xc0     do_syscall_64+0x40/0xe0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b (CVE-2024-26586)

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 host is prior to 5.15.148-97.158. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2024-036 advisory.

  - Transmit requests in Xen's virtual network protocol can consist of multiple parts. While not really     useful, except for the initial part any of them may be of zero length, i.e. carry no data at all. Besides     a certain initial portion of the to be transferred data, these parts are directly translated into what     Linux calls SKB fragments. Such converted request parts can, when for a particular SKB they are all of     length zero, lead to a de-reference of NULL in core networking code. (CVE-2023-46838)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: uio: Fix use-after-free in uio_open     core-1 core-2 ------------------------------------------------------- uio_unregister_device uio_open idev     = idr_find() device_unregister(&idev->dev) put_device(&idev->dev) uio_device_release     get_device(&idev->dev) kfree(idev) uio_free_minor(minor) uio_release put_device(&idev->dev) kfree(idev)
    ------------------------------------------------------- In the core-1 uio_unregister_device(), the     device_unregister will kfree idev when the idev->dev kobject ref is 1. But after core-1 device_unregister,     put_device and before doing kfree, the core-2 may get_device. Then: 1. After core-1 kfree idev, the core-2     will do use-after-free for idev. 2. When core-2 do uio_release and put_device, the idev will be double     freed. To address this issue, we can get idev atomic & inc idev reference with minor_lock.
    (CVE-2023-52439)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: fix check for attempt to corrupt     spilled pointer When register is spilled onto a stack as a 1/2/4-byte register, we set     slot_type[BPF_REG_SIZE - 1] (plus potentially few more below it, depending on actual spill size). So to     check if some stack slot has spilled register we need to consult slot_type[7], not slot_type[0]. To avoid     the need to remember and double-check this in the future, just use is_spilled_reg() helper.
    (CVE-2023-52462)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efivarfs: force RO when remounting if     SetVariable is not supported If SetVariable at runtime is not supported by the firmware we never assign a     callback for that function. At the same time mount the efivarfs as RO so no one can call that. However, we     never check the permission flags when someone remounts the filesystem as RW. As a result this leads to a     crash looking like this: $ mount -o remount,rw /sys/firmware/efi/efivars $ efi-updatevar -f PK.auth PK [     303.279166] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000 [     303.280482] Mem abort info: [ 303.280854] ESR = 0x0000000086000004 [ 303.281338] EC = 0x21: IABT (current     EL), IL = 32 bits [ 303.282016] SET = 0, FnV = 0 [ 303.282414] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 [ 303.282821] FSC = 0x04:
    level 0 translation fault [ 303.283771] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=000000004258c000 [     303.284913] [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000 [ 303.286076] Internal error:
    Oops: 0000000086000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 303.286936] Modules linked in: qrtr tpm_tis tpm_tis_core     crct10dif_ce arm_smccc_trng rng_core drm fuse ip_tables x_tables ipv6 [ 303.288586] CPU: 1 PID: 755 Comm:
    efi-updatevar Not tainted 6.3.0-rc1-00108-gc7d0c4695c68 #1 [ 303.289748] Hardware name: Unknown Unknown     Product/Unknown Product, BIOS 2023.04-00627-g88336918701d 04/01/2023 [ 303.291150] pstate: 60400005 (nZCv     daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 303.292123] pc : 0x0 [ 303.292443] lr :
    efivar_set_variable_locked+0x74/0xec [ 303.293156] sp : ffff800008673c10 [ 303.293619] x29:
    ffff800008673c10 x28: ffff0000037e8000 x27: 0000000000000000 [ 303.294592] x26: 0000000000000800 x25:
    ffff000002467400 x24: 0000000000000027 [ 303.295572] x23: ffffd49ea9832000 x22: ffff0000020c9800 x21:
    ffff000002467000 [ 303.296566] x20: 0000000000000001 x19: 00000000000007fc x18: 0000000000000000 [     303.297531] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000aaaac807ab54 [ 303.298495] x14:
    ed37489f673633c0 x13: 71c45c606de13f80 x12: 47464259e219acf4 [ 303.299453] x11: ffff000002af7b01 x10:
    0000000000000003 x9 : 0000000000000002 [ 303.300431] x8 : 0000000000000010 x7 : ffffd49ea8973230 x6 :
    0000000000a85201 [ 303.301412] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : ffff0000020c9800 x3 : 00000000000007fc [     303.302370] x2 : 0000000000000027 x1 : ffff000002467400 x0 : ffff000002467000 [ 303.303341] Call trace: [     303.303679] 0x0 [ 303.303938] efivar_entry_set_get_size+0x98/0x16c [ 303.304585]     efivarfs_file_write+0xd0/0x1a4 [ 303.305148] vfs_write+0xc4/0x2e4 [ 303.305601] ksys_write+0x70/0x104 [     303.306073] __arm64_sys_write+0x1c/0x28 [ 303.306622] invoke_syscall+0x48/0x114 [ 303.307156]     el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x44/0xec [ 303.307803] do_el0_svc+0x38/0x98 [ 303.308268] el0_svc+0x2c/0x84 [     303.308702] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xf4/0x120 [ 303.309293] el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 [ 303.309794] Code:
    ???????? ???????? ???????? ???????? (????????) [ 303.310612] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Fix this     by adding a .reconfigure() function to the fs operations which we can use to check the requested flags and     deny anything that's not RO if the firmware doesn't implement SetVariable at runtime. (CVE-2023-52463)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mfd: syscon: Fix null pointer     dereference in of_syscon_register() kasprintf() returns a pointer to dynamically allocated memory which     can be NULL upon failure. (CVE-2023-52467)

  - An out-of-bounds access vulnerability involving netfilter was reported and fixed as: f1082dd31fe4     (netfilter: nf_tables: Reject tables of unsupported family); While creating a new netfilter table, lack of     a safeguard against invalid nf_tables family (pf) values within `nf_tables_newtable` function enables an     attacker to achieve out-of-bounds access. (CVE-2023-6040)

  - A Null pointer dereference problem was found in ida_free in lib/idr.c in the Linux Kernel. This issue may     allow an attacker using this library to cause a denial of service problem due to a missing check at a     function return. (CVE-2023-6915)

  - An out-of-bounds memory read flaw was found in receive_encrypted_standard in fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c in     the SMB Client sub-component in the Linux Kernel. This issue occurs due to integer underflow on the memcpy     length, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2024-0565)

  - An out-of-bounds memory write flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Transport Layer Security functionality     in how a user calls a function splice with a ktls socket as the destination. This flaw allows a local user     to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2024-0646)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's netfilter: nf_tables component can be exploited to     achieve local privilege escalation. The nft_setelem_catchall_deactivate() function checks whether the     catch-all set element is active in the current generation instead of the next generation before freeing     it, but only flags it inactive in the next generation, making it possible to free the element multiple     times, leading to a double free vulnerability. We recommend upgrading past commit     b1db244ffd041a49ecc9618e8feb6b5c1afcdaa7. (CVE-2024-1085)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mlxsw: spectrum_acl_tcam: Fix stack     corruption When tc filters are first added to a net device, the corresponding local port gets bound to an     ACL group in the device. The group contains a list of ACLs. In turn, each ACL points to a different TCAM     region where the filters are stored. During forwarding, the ACLs are sequentially evaluated until a match     is found. One reason to place filters in different regions is when they are added with decreasing     priorities and in an alternating order so that two consecutive filters can never fit in the same region     because of their key usage. In Spectrum-2 and newer ASICs the firmware started to report that the maximum     number of ACLs in a group is more than 16, but the layout of the register that configures ACL groups     (PAGT) was not updated to account for that. It is therefore possible to hit stack corruption [1] in the     rare case where more than 16 ACLs in a group are required. Fix by limiting the maximum ACL group size to     the minimum between what the firmware reports and the maximum ACLs that fit in the PAGT register. Add a     test case to make sure the machine does not crash when this condition is hit. [1] Kernel panic - not     syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_group_update+0x116/0x120 [...]     dump_stack_lvl+0x36/0x50 panic+0x305/0x330 __stack_chk_fail+0x15/0x20     mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_group_update+0x116/0x120 mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_group_region_attach+0x69/0x110     mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_vchunk_get+0x492/0xa20 mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_ventry_add+0x25/0xe0     mlxsw_sp_acl_rule_add+0x47/0x240 mlxsw_sp_flower_replace+0x1a9/0x1d0 tc_setup_cb_add+0xdc/0x1c0     fl_hw_replace_filter+0x146/0x1f0 fl_change+0xc17/0x1360 tc_new_tfilter+0x472/0xb90     rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x313/0x3b0 netlink_rcv_skb+0x58/0x100 netlink_unicast+0x244/0x390     netlink_sendmsg+0x1e4/0x440 ____sys_sendmsg+0x164/0x260 ___sys_sendmsg+0x9a/0xe0 __sys_sendmsg+0x7a/0xc0     do_syscall_64+0x40/0xe0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b (CVE-2024-26586)

  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix re-attachment branch in     bpf_tracing_prog_attach The following case can cause a crash due to missing attach_btf: 1) load rawtp     program 2) load fentry program with rawtp as target_fd 3) create tracing link for fentry program with     target_fd = 0 4) repeat 3 In the end we have: - prog->aux->dst_trampoline == NULL - tgt_prog == NULL     (because we did not provide target_fd to link_create) - prog->aux->attach_btf == NULL (the program was     loaded with attach_prog_fd=X) - the program was loaded for tgt_prog but we have no way to find out which     one BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000058 Call Trace: <TASK> ? __die+0x20/0x70 ?     page_fault_oops+0x15b/0x430 ? fixup_exception+0x22/0x330 ? exc_page_fault+0x6f/0x170 ?     asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 ? bpf_tracing_prog_attach+0x279/0x560 ? btf_obj_id+0x5/0x10     bpf_tracing_prog_attach+0x439/0x560 __sys_bpf+0x1cf4/0x2de0 __x64_sys_bpf+0x1c/0x30     do_syscall_64+0x41/0xf0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76 Return -EINVAL in this situation.
    (CVE-2024-26591)

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
195662	RHEL 6 : kernel (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
195118	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities (USN-6765-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
194886	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2024:1480-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
194745	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2024:1466-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
193454	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2024:1322-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
193375	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities (USN-6725-2)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
193084	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6725-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
192490	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2024:0977-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
192487	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2024:0926-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
192180	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2024:0910-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
192178	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2024:0900-2)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
192141	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2024:0900-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
192014	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2024:0857-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
192011	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2024:0858-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
192006	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2024:0855-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
191796	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities (USN-6688-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
190728	Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool, kernel, kernel-devel (ALAS2023-2024-519)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
190029	Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALASKERNEL-5.10-2024-048)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
190021	Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALASKERNEL-5.15-2024-036)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high

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