RHEL 7 : kpatch-patch (RHSA-2020:0028)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 132687

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:0028 advisory.

- hw: Machine Check Error on Page Size Change (IFU) (CVE-2018-12207)

- hw: TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA) (CVE-2019-11135)

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12207

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11135

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0028

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1646768

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1753062

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 132687

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-0028.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/7/2020

Updated: 1/23/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11135

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:7.7, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:7.7, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:7.7, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:7.7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_1_1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_1_2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062_4_1

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: 1/6/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12207, CVE-2019-11135

CWE: 203, 226, 385

RHSA: 2020:0028