The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1170 advisory.

  - kernel: media: use-after-free in [tuner-xc2028] media driver (CVE-2016-7913)

  - kernel: Buffer overflow in firewire driver via crafted incoming packets (CVE-2016-8633)

  - kernel: Out-of-bounds access via an XFRM_MSG_MIGRATE xfrm Netlink message (CVE-2017-11600)

  - kernel: memory leak when merging buffers in SCSI IO vectors (CVE-2017-12190)

  - kernel: crypto: privilege escalation in skcipher_recvmsg function (CVE-2017-13215)

  - Kernel: ipsec: xfrm: use-after-free leading to potential privilege escalation (CVE-2017-16939)

  - kernel: Unallocated memory access by malicious USB device via bNumInterfaces overflow (CVE-2017-17558)

  - Kernel: KVM: DoS via write flood to I/O port 0x80 (CVE-2017-1000407)

  - kernel: Out-of-bounds write via userland offsets in ebt_entry struct in netfilter/ebtables.c     (CVE-2018-1068)

  - Kernel: FPU state information leakage via lazy FPU restore (CVE-2018-3665)

  - hardware: Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling (MSBDS) (CVE-2018-12126)

  - hardware: Micro-architectural Load Port Data Sampling - Information Leak (MLPDS) (CVE-2018-12127)

  - hardware: Microarchitectural Fill Buffer Data Sampling (MFBDS) (CVE-2018-12130)

  - kernel: Use-after-free due to race condition in AF_PACKET implementation (CVE-2018-18559)

  - hardware: Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory (MDSUM) (CVE-2019-11091)

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

Detections

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RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2019:1170)

high Nessus Plugin ID 125039

Version 1.10

Version 1.9

Version 1.10 Apr 25, 2024, 2:46 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404250246
Version 1.9 Dec 6, 2022, 6:53 AM Reference Plugin Feed: 202212060653