RHEL 8 : kpatch-patch (RHSA-2022:8989)

high Nessus Plugin ID 168707

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-2022:8989 advisory.

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

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

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-2022-1158

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2639

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8989

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2069793

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2084479

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 168707

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-8989.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/13/2022

Updated: 5/25/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2639

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_90_1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_81_1, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_87_1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_91_1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kpatch-patch-4_18_0-193_93_1

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: 12/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/6/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-1158, CVE-2022-2639

CWE: 192, 416, 787

RHSA: 2022:8989