Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (BlueField) vulnerabilities (USN-5377-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 159729

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5377-1 advisory.

 - Rogue backends can cause DoS of guests via high frequency events T[his CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.] Xen offers the ability to run PV backends in regular unprivileged guests, typically referred to as driver domains.
 Running PV backends in driver domains has one primary security advantage: if a driver domain gets compromised, it doesn't have the privileges to take over the system. However, a malicious driver domain could try to attack other guests via sending events at a high frequency leading to a Denial of Service in the guest due to trying to service interrupts for elongated amounts of time. There are three affected backends: * blkfront patch 1, CVE-2021-28711 * netfront patch 2, CVE-2021-28712 * hvc_xen (console) patch 3, CVE-2021-28713 (CVE-2021-28711, CVE-2021-28712, CVE-2021-28713)

 - Guest can force Linux netback driver to hog large amounts of kernel memory T[his CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.] Incoming data packets for a guest in the Linux kernel's netback driver are buffered until the guest is ready to process them. There are some measures taken for avoiding to pile up too much data, but those can be bypassed by the guest: There is a timeout how long the client side of an interface can stop consuming new packets before it is assumed to have stalled, but this timeout is rather long (60 seconds by default).
 Using a UDP connection on a fast interface can easily accumulate gigabytes of data in that time.
 (CVE-2021-28715) The timeout could even never trigger if the guest manages to have only one free slot in its RX queue ring page and the next package would require more than one free slot, which may be the case when using GSO, XDP, or software hashing. (CVE-2021-28714) (CVE-2021-28714, CVE-2021-28715)

 - In the Linux kernel through 5.15.2, mwifiex_usb_recv in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/usb.c allows an attacker (who can connect a crafted USB device) to cause a denial of service (skb_over_panic).
 (CVE-2021-43976)

 - A use-after-free exists in drivers/tee/tee_shm.c in the TEE subsystem in the Linux kernel through 5.15.11.
 This occurs because of a race condition in tee_shm_get_from_id during an attempt to free a shared memory object. (CVE-2021-44733)

 - pep_sock_accept in net/phonet/pep.c in the Linux kernel through 5.15.8 has a refcount leak.
 (CVE-2021-45095)

 - In __f2fs_setxattr in fs/f2fs/xattr.c in the Linux kernel through 5.15.11, there is an out-of-bounds memory access when an inode has an invalid last xattr entry. (CVE-2021-45469)

 - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.15.11. There is a memory leak in the
 __rds_conn_create() function in net/rds/connection.c in a certain combination of circumstances.
 (CVE-2021-45480)

 - A stack overflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel's TIPC protocol functionality in the way a user sends a packet with malicious content where the number of domain member nodes is higher than the 64 allowed.
 This flaw allows a remote user to crash the system or possibly escalate their privileges if they have access to the TIPC network. (CVE-2022-0435)

 - A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's cgroup_release_agent_write in the kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c function. This flaw, under certain circumstances, allows the use of the cgroups v1 release_agent feature to escalate privileges and bypass the namespace isolation unexpectedly.
 (CVE-2022-0492)

 - A use-after-free exists in the Linux Kernel in tc_new_tfilter that could allow a local attacker to gain privilege escalation. The exploit requires unprivileged user namespaces. We recommend upgrading past commit 04c2a47ffb13c29778e2a14e414ad4cb5a5db4b5 (CVE-2022-1055)

 - A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in IPsec ESP transformation code in net/ipv4/esp4.c and net/ipv6/esp6.c. This flaw allows a local attacker with a normal user privilege to overwrite kernel heap objects and may cause a local privilege escalation threat. (CVE-2022-27666)

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://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5377-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 159729

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5377-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/14/2022

Updated: 3/23/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Temporal Vector: E:F/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-0435

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

Temporal Vector: E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-bluefield, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-bluefield-headers-5.4.0-1032, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-bluefield-tools-5.4.0-1032, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-buildinfo-5.4.0-1032-bluefield, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-5.4.0-1032-bluefield, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-bluefield, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-5.4.0-1032-bluefield, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-bluefield, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-unsigned-5.4.0-1032-bluefield, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-modules-5.4.0-1032-bluefield, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-tools-5.4.0-1032-bluefield, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-tools-bluefield, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/17/2021

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-4135, CVE-2021-28711, CVE-2021-28712, CVE-2021-28713, CVE-2021-28714, CVE-2021-28715, CVE-2021-43976, CVE-2021-44733, CVE-2021-45095, CVE-2021-45469, CVE-2021-45480, CVE-2022-0435, CVE-2022-0492, CVE-2022-1055, CVE-2022-27666

USN: 5377-1