RHEL 9 : kernel (RHSA-2022:8973)

high Nessus Plugin ID 168713

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:8973 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* 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)

* kernel: watch queue race condition can lead to privilege escalation (CVE-2022-2959)

* kernel: nfsd buffer overflow by RPC message over TCP with garbage data (CVE-2022-43945)

* hw: cpu: incomplete clean-up of multi-core shared buffers (aka SBDR) (CVE-2022-21123)

* hw: cpu: incomplete clean-up of microarchitectural fill buffers (aka SBDS) (CVE-2022-21125)

* hw: cpu: incomplete clean-up in specific special register write operations (aka DRPW) (CVE-2022-21166)

* hw: cpu: AMD: RetBleed Arbitrary Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions (CVE-2022-23816, CVE-2022-29900)

* hw: cpu: AMD: Branch Type Confusion (non-retbleed) (CVE-2022-23825)

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

* hw: cpu: Intel: RetBleed Arbitrary Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions (CVE-2022-29901)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

* sched/pelt: Fix attach_entity_load_avg() corner case (BZ#2105360)

* RHEL9[fleetwood][P9]:kdump fails to capture vmcore when crash is triggered while running forkoff.
(BZ#2109144)

* ISST-LTE:[P10 Everest] [5.14.0-70.9.1.el9_0.ppc64le] HPT:RHEL9.0:ecolp95: lpar crashed at
__list_del_entry_valid+0x90/0x100 and LPM failed (BZ#2112823)

* [rhel9] livepatch panic: RIP: 0010:0xffffffffc0e070c4 seq_read_iter+0x124/0x4b0 (BZ#2122625)

* System crashes due to list_add double add at iwl_mvm_mac_wake_tx_queue+0x71 (BZ#2123315)

* [Dell EMC 9.0 BUG] Any process performing I/O doesn't fail on degraded LVM RAID and IO process hangs (BZ#2126215)

* [HPEMC RHEL 9.0 REGRESSION] net, e810, ice: not enough device MSI-X vectors (BZ#2126491)

* RHEL9.0 - zfcp: fix missing auto port scan and thus missing target ports (BZ#2127874)

* Enable check-kabi (BZ#2132372)

* Add symbols to stablelist (BZ#2132373)

* Update RHEL9.1 kabi tooling (BZ#2132380)

* kABI: Prepare the MM subsystem for kABI lockdown (BZ#2133464)

* [Dell Storage 9.1 BUG] NVME command hang during storage array node reboot (BZ#2133553)

* WARNING: CPU: 116 PID: 3440 at arch/x86/mm/extable.c:105 ex_handler_fprestore+0x3f/0x50 (BZ#2134589)

* crypto/testmgr.c should not list dh, ecdh-nist-p256, ecdh-nist-p384 as .fips_allowed = 1 (BZ#2136523)

* FIPS self-tests for RSA pkcs7 signature verification (BZ#2136552)

* [ovs-tc] Bad length in dpctl/dump-flows (BZ#2137354)

* [RHEL9] s_pf0vf2: hw csum failure for mlx5 (BZ#2137355)

* kernel memory leak while freeing nested actions (BZ#2137356)

* ovs: backports from upstream (BZ#2137358)

* kernel should conform to FIPS-140-3 requirements (both parts) (BZ#2139095)

* [DELL EMC 9.0-RT BUG] System is not booting into RT Kernel with perc12. (BZ#2139214)

* Fix panic in nbd/004 test (BZ#2139535)

* Nested KVM is not working on RHEL 8.6 with hardware error 0x7 (BZ#2140141)

* [RHEL9] Practically limit Dummy wait workaround to old Intel systems (BZ#2142169)

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 RHEL kernel package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:8973.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 168713

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-8973.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 12/13/2022

Updated: 9/12/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-29900

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2639

Vulnerability Information

CPE: 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-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-cross-headers, 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-zfcpdump-devel-matched, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-modules-extra, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-zfcpdump-core, 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, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-devel-matched, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-devel-matched, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-core

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-2022-21123, CVE-2022-21125, CVE-2022-21166, CVE-2022-23825, CVE-2022-26373, CVE-2022-2639, CVE-2022-28693, CVE-2022-2959, CVE-2022-29900, CVE-2022-29901, CVE-2022-43945, CVE-2022-49086, CVE-2022-49611

CWE: 1037, 200, 362, 401, 416, 459, 681, 770

RHSA: 2022:8973

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