The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:0334 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

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

    * kernel: memory corruption in AX88179_178A based USB ethernet device. (CVE-2022-2964)

    * kernel: i915: Incorrect GPU TLB flush can lead to random memory access (CVE-2022-4139)

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

    * kernel: i2c: unbounded length leads to buffer overflow in ismt_access() (CVE-2022-3077)

    * kernel: Unprivileged users may use PTRACE_SEIZE to set PTRACE_O_SUSPEND_SECCOMP option (CVE-2022-30594)

    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):

    * Intel 9.2: Important iavf bug fixes (BZ#2127884)

    * vfio zero page mappings fail after 2M instances (BZ#2128514)

    * nvme-tcp automatic reconnect fails intermittently during EMC powerstore NDU operation (BZ#2131359)

    * ice: Driver Update to 5.19 (BZ#2132070)

    * WARNING: CPU: 116 PID: 3440 at arch/x86/mm/extable.c:105 ex_handler_fprestore+0x3f/0x50 (BZ#2134588)

    * drm: duplicated call of drm_privacy_screen_register_notifier() in drm_connector_register() (BZ#2134619)

    * updating the appid field through sysfs is returning an -EINVAL error (BZ#2136914)

    * DELL EMC: System is not booting into RT Kernel with perc12. (BZ#2139213)

    * No signal showed in the VGA monitor when installing RHEL9 in the legacy bios mode (BZ#2140153)

    * Practically limit Dummy wait workaround to old Intel systems (BZ#2142168)

    * ppc64le: unexpected oom panic when there's enough memory left in zswap test (BZ#2143976)

    * fatal error: error in backend: Branch target out of insn range (BZ#2144902)

    * AMdCLIENT: The kernel command line parameter nomodeset not working properly (BZ#2145217)

    * Azure: PCI: hv: Do not set PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY to reduce VM boot time (BZ#2150910)

    * Azure z-stream: Sometimes newly deployed VMs are not getting accelerated network during provisioning     (BZ#2151605)

    * DELL 9.0 RT - On PE R760 system, call traces are observed dmesg when system is running stress     (BZ#2154407)

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.

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RHEL 9 : kernel (RHSA-2023:0334)

high Nessus Plugin ID 170404

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Version 1.5 Nov 7, 2024, 2:36 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411071436
Version 1.4 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.3 Jan 26, 2024, 9:00 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202401262100
Version 1.2 May 24, 2023, 8:43 PM Logic Changes (Added support for ppc64le architecture) Plugin Feed: 202305242043
Version 1.1 Jan 24, 2023, 7:02 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True") Exploit attributes ("Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202301241902
Version 1.0 Jan 23, 2023, 11:46 PM New Plugin Feed: 202301232346