The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:7683 advisory.

  - kernel: off-path attacker may inject data or terminate victim's TCP session (CVE-2020-36516)

  - kernel: race condition in VT_RESIZEX ioctl when vc_cons[i].d is already NULL leading to NULL pointer     dereference (CVE-2020-36558)

  - kernel: use-after-free vulnerability in function sco_sock_sendmsg() (CVE-2021-3640)

  - kernel: memory leak for large arguments in video_usercopy function in drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c     (CVE-2021-30002)

  - kernel: smb2_ioctl_query_info NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2022-0168)

  - kernel: NULL pointer dereference in udf_expand_file_adinicbdue() during writeback (CVE-2022-0617)

  - kernel: swiotlb information leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE (CVE-2022-0854)

  - kernel: uninitialized registers on stack in nft_do_chain can cause kernel pointer leakage to UM     (CVE-2022-1016)

  - kernel: race condition in snd_pcm_hw_free leading to use-after-free (CVE-2022-1048)

  - kernel: use-after-free in tc_new_tfilter() in net/sched/cls_api.c (CVE-2022-1055)

  - kernel: KVM: cmpxchg_gpte can write to pfns outside the userspace region (CVE-2022-1158)

  - kernel: use-after-free and memory errors in ext4 when mounting and operating on a corrupted image     (CVE-2022-1184)

  - kernel: KVM: NULL pointer dereference in kvm_dirty_ring_push in virt/kvm/dirty_ring.c (CVE-2022-1263)

  - kernel: concurrency use-after-free between drm_setmaster_ioctl and drm_mode_getresources (CVE-2022-1280)

  - kernel: NULL pointer dereference in x86_emulate_insn may lead to DoS (CVE-2022-1852)

  - kernel: buffer overflow in nft_set_desc_concat_parse() (CVE-2022-2078)

  - kernel: KVM: NULL pointer dereference in kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic_fast() (CVE-2022-2153)

  - kernel: LoadPin bypass via dm-verity table reload (CVE-2022-2503)

  - kernel: nf_tables cross-table potential use-after-free may lead to local privilege escalation     (CVE-2022-2586)

  - kernel: openvswitch: integer underflow leads to out-of-bounds write in reserve_sfa_size() (CVE-2022-2639)

  - kernel: use-after-free when psi trigger is destroyed while being polled (CVE-2022-2938)

  - kernel: hv_netvsc: NULL pointer dereference in netvsc_get_ethtool_stats() (CVE-2022-3107)

  - kernel: net/packet: slab-out-of-bounds access in packet_recvmsg() (CVE-2022-20368)

  - kernel: missing DM_TARGET_IMMUTABLE feature flag in verity_target in drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c     (CVE-2022-20572)

  - kernel: possible to use the debugger to write zero into a location of choice (CVE-2022-21499)

  - hw: cpu: arm64: Spectre-BHB (CVE-2022-23960)

  - kernel: nfs_atomic_open() returns uninitialized data instead of ENOTDIR (CVE-2022-24448)

  - hw: cpu: Intel: Post-barrier Return Stack Buffer Predictions (CVE-2022-26373)

  - kernel: memory leak in drivers/hid/hid-elo.c (CVE-2022-27950)

  - kernel: double free in ems_usb_start_xmit in drivers/net/can/usb/ems_usb.c (CVE-2022-28390)

  - kernel: use after free in SUNRPC subsystem (CVE-2022-28893)

  - kernel: use-after-free due to improper update of reference count in net/sched/cls_u32.c (CVE-2022-29581)

  - kernel: DoS in nfqnl_mangle in net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c (CVE-2022-36946)

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

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RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2022:7683)

high Nessus Plugin ID 167155

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Version 1.7 Apr 29, 2024, 9:06 AM Exploit attributes ("Exploited by malware" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202404290906
Version 1.6 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2020-36516,CVE-2020-36558,CVE-2021-3640,CVE-2021-30002,CVE-2022-0168,CVE-2022-0617,CVE-2022-0854,CVE-2022-1016,CVE-2022-1048,CVE-2022-1055,CVE-2022-1158,CVE-2022-1184,CVE-2022-1263,CVE-2022-1280,CVE-2022-1852,CVE-2022-2078,CVE-2022-2586,CVE-2022-2639,CVE-2022-2938,CVE-2022-20368,CVE-2022-20572,CVE-2022-21499,CVE-2022-2153,CVE-2022-23960,CVE-2022-24448,CVE-2022-2503,CVE-2022-26373,CVE-2022-27950,CVE-2022-28390,CVE-2022-28893,CVE-2022-29581,CVE-2022-3107,CVE-2022-36946") Detection (updated detection logic) Exploit attributes ("Exploited by malware" changed from "True" to none) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.5 May 25, 2023, 3:03 PM Logic Changes (Added support for ppc64le architecture) Plugin Feed: 202305251503
Version 1.4 Feb 3, 2023, 4:48 AM Logic Changes (Added support for repository relative URLs) Plugin Feed: 202302030448
Version 1.3 Dec 13, 2022, 2:03 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True") Exploit attributes ("Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Exploit attributes ("Exploited by malware" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202212131403
Version 1.2 Nov 9, 2022, 9:43 AM New Plugin Feed: 202211090943