The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:2851 advisory.

  - kernel: usb: missing size check in the __usb_get_extra_descriptor() leading to DoS (CVE-2018-20169)

  - kernel: denial of service via ioctl call in network tun handling (CVE-2018-7191)

  - kernel: Count overflow in FUSE request leading to use-after-free issues. (CVE-2019-11487)

  - kernel: use-after-free in arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c (CVE-2019-13233)

  - Kernel: KVM: OOB memory access via mmio ring buffer (CVE-2019-14821)

  - kernel: memory leak in register_queue_kobjects() in net/core/net-sysfs.c leads to denial of service     (CVE-2019-15916)

  - kernel: powerpc: incomplete Spectre-RSB mitigation leads to information exposure (CVE-2019-18660)

  - kernel: perf_event_open() and execve() race in setuid programs allows a data leak (CVE-2019-3901)

  - Kernel: vfio: access to disabled MMIO space of some devices may lead to DoS scenario (CVE-2020-12888)

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-2020:2851)

high Nessus Plugin ID 138171

Version 1.9