RHEL 6 : MRG (RHSA-2019:0641)

high Nessus Plugin ID 123432

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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: MIDI driver race condition leads to a double-free (CVE-2018-10902)

* kernel: net/rxrpc: overflow in decoding of krb5 principal (CVE-2017-7482)

* kernel: Missing length check of payload in net/sctp/ sm_make_chunk.c:_sctp_make_chunk() function allows denial of service (CVE-2018-5803)

* kernel: use-after-free in ntfs_read_locked_inode in the ntfs.ko (CVE-2018-12929)

* kernel: stack-based out-of-bounds write in ntfs_end_buffer_async_read in the ntfs.ko (CVE-2018-12930)

* kernel: stack-based out-of-bounds write in ntfs_attr_find in the ntfs.ko (CVE-2018-12931)

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) :

* Remove the NTFS module from the MRG 2.5.x realtime kernel (BZ#1674523)

* update the MRG 2.5.z 3.10 kernel-rt sources (BZ#1674935)

Users of kernel-rt are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0641

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-7482

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-5803

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-10902

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-12929

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-12930

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-12931

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 123432

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-0641.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/28/2019

Updated: 1/27/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-doc, 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-trace-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-trace-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-vanilla, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-vanilla-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-vanilla-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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: 3/26/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/12/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7482, CVE-2018-10902, CVE-2018-12929, CVE-2018-12930, CVE-2018-12931, CVE-2018-5803

RHSA: 2019:0641