RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2022:1988)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 161047

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:1988 advisory.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

* kernel: fget: check that the fd still exists after getting a ref to it (CVE-2021-4083)

* kernel: avoid cyclic entity chains due to malformed USB descriptors (CVE-2020-0404)

* kernel: speculation on incompletely validated data on IBM Power9 (CVE-2020-4788)

* kernel: integer overflow in k_ascii() in drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c (CVE-2020-13974)

* kernel: out-of-bounds read in bpf_skb_change_head() of filter.c due to a use-after-free (CVE-2021-0941)

* kernel: joydev: zero size passed to joydev_handle_JSIOCSBTNMAP() (CVE-2021-3612)

* kernel: reading /proc/sysvipc/shm does not scale with large shared memory segment counts (CVE-2021-3669)

* kernel: out-of-bound Read in qrtr_endpoint_post in net/qrtr/qrtr.c (CVE-2021-3743)

* kernel: crypto: ccp - fix resource leaks in ccp_run_aes_gcm_cmd() (CVE-2021-3744)

* kernel: possible use-after-free in bluetooth module (CVE-2021-3752)

* kernel: unaccounted ipc objects in Linux kernel lead to breaking memcg limits and DoS attacks (CVE-2021-3759)

* kernel: DoS in ccp_run_aes_gcm_cmd() function (CVE-2021-3764)

* kernel: sctp: Invalid chunks may be used to remotely remove existing associations (CVE-2021-3772)

* kernel: lack of port sanity checking in natd and netfilter leads to exploit of OpenVPN clients (CVE-2021-3773)

* kernel: possible leak or coruption of data residing on hugetlbfs (CVE-2021-4002)

* kernel: security regression for CVE-2018-13405 (CVE-2021-4037)

* kernel: Buffer overwrite in decode_nfs_fh function (CVE-2021-4157)

* kernel: cgroup: Use open-time creds and namespace for migration perm checks (CVE-2021-4197)

* kernel: Race condition in races in sk_peer_pid and sk_peer_cred accesses (CVE-2021-4203)

* kernel: new DNS Cache Poisoning Attack based on ICMP fragment needed packets replies (CVE-2021-20322)

* kernel: arm: SIGPAGE information disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2021-21781)

* hw: cpu: LFENCE/JMP Mitigation Update for CVE-2017-5715 (CVE-2021-26401)

* kernel: Local privilege escalation due to incorrect BPF JIT branch displacement computation (CVE-2021-29154)

* kernel: use-after-free in hso_free_net_device() in drivers/net/usb/hso.c (CVE-2021-37159)

* kernel: eBPF multiplication integer overflow in prealloc_elems_and_freelist() in kernel/bpf/stackmap.c leads to out-of-bounds write (CVE-2021-41864)

* kernel: Heap buffer overflow in firedtv driver (CVE-2021-42739)

* kernel: ppc: kvm: allows a malicious KVM guest to crash the host (CVE-2021-43056)

* kernel: an array-index-out-bounds in detach_capi_ctr in drivers/isdn/capi/kcapi.c (CVE-2021-43389)

* kernel: mwifiex_usb_recv() in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/usb.c allows an attacker to cause DoS via crafted USB device (CVE-2021-43976)

* kernel: use-after-free in the TEE subsystem (CVE-2021-44733)

* kernel: information leak in the IPv6 implementation (CVE-2021-45485)

* kernel: information leak in the IPv4 implementation (CVE-2021-45486)

* hw: cpu: intel: Branch History Injection (BHI) (CVE-2022-0001)

* hw: cpu: intel: Intra-Mode BTI (CVE-2022-0002)

* kernel: Local denial of service in bond_ipsec_add_sa (CVE-2022-0286)

* kernel: DoS in sctp_addto_chunk in net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c (CVE-2022-0322)

* kernel: FUSE allows UAF reads of write() buffers, allowing theft of (partial) /etc/shadow hashes (CVE-2022-1011)

* kernel: use-after-free in nouveau kernel module (CVE-2020-27820)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 161047

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-1988.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/11/2022

Updated: 3/22/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.9

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3752

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3773

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-tools-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-cross-headers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perf, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bpftool, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-perf

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/9/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-0404, CVE-2020-13974, CVE-2020-27820, CVE-2020-4788, CVE-2021-0941, CVE-2021-20322, CVE-2021-21781, CVE-2021-26401, CVE-2021-29154, CVE-2021-3612, CVE-2021-3669, CVE-2021-37159, CVE-2021-3743, CVE-2021-3744, CVE-2021-3752, CVE-2021-3759, CVE-2021-3764, CVE-2021-3772, CVE-2021-3773, CVE-2021-3923, CVE-2021-4002, CVE-2021-4037, CVE-2021-4083, CVE-2021-4093, CVE-2021-4157, CVE-2021-41864, CVE-2021-4197, CVE-2021-4203, CVE-2021-42739, CVE-2021-43056, CVE-2021-43389, CVE-2021-43976, CVE-2021-44733, CVE-2021-45485, CVE-2021-45486, CVE-2021-47076, CVE-2021-47203, CVE-2021-47301, CVE-2021-47435, CVE-2021-47498, CVE-2021-47501, CVE-2021-47544, CVE-2021-47556, CVE-2021-47590, CVE-2021-47614, CVE-2022-0001, CVE-2022-0002, CVE-2022-0286, CVE-2022-0322, CVE-2022-0850, CVE-2022-1011, CVE-2022-3105, CVE-2022-3106, CVE-2022-3108, CVE-2022-48771, CVE-2022-48904, CVE-2023-0459

CWE: 119, 125, 190, 20, 200, 252, 284, 287, 327, 330, 354, 362, 399, 401, 402, 416, 459, 476, 681, 770, 787, 833, 908

RHSA: 2022:1988

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