The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0378 advisory.

    This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify     the code of a running kernel.

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: out-of-bounds write in qfq_change_class function (CVE-2023-31436)

    * kernel: tun: bugs for oversize packet when napi frags enabled in tun_napi_alloc_frags (CVE-2023-3812)

    * kernel: net/sched: sch_qfq component can be exploited if in qfq_change_agg function happens qfq_enqueue     overhead (CVE-2023-3611)

    * kernel: net/sched: sch_hfsc UAF (CVE-2023-4623)

    * kernel: use after free in unix_stream_sendpage (CVE-2023-4622)

    * kernel: netfilter: potential slab-out-of-bound access due to integer underflow (CVE-2023-42753)

    * kernel: bpf: Incorrect verifier pruning leads to unsafe code paths being incorrectly marked as safe     (CVE-2023-2163)

    * kernel: use after free in nvmet_tcp_free_crypto in NVMe (CVE-2023-5178)

    * kernel: IGB driver inadequate buffer size for frames larger than MTU (CVE-2023-45871)

    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.

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 8 : kpatch-patch (RHSA-2024:0378)

high Nessus Plugin ID 189521

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Version 1.4 Nov 8, 2024, 8:20 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411080820
Version 1.3 Jun 19, 2024, 9:24 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 9.0) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 8.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") Plugin Feed: 202406190924
Version 1.2 Jun 4, 2024, 7:00 PM Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202406041900
Version 1.1 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.0 Jan 25, 2024, 4:48 PM New Plugin Feed: 202401251648