Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0092: linux-firmware (ALINUX3-SA-2024:0092)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 236256

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2024:0092 advisory.

Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

CVE-2022-46329:
Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi software may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

CVE-2023-20569:
A side channel vulnerability on some of the AMD CPUs may allow an attacker to influence the return address prediction. This may result in speculative execution at an attacker-controlledaddress, potentially leading to information disclosure.

CVE-2023-20592:
Improper or unexpected behavior of the INVD instruction in some AMD CPUs may allow an attacker with a malicious hypervisor to affect cache line write-back behavior of the CPU leading to a potential loss of guest virtual machine (VM) memory integrity.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud 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 affected packages.

See Also

http://mirrors.aliyun.com/alinux/3/cve/alinux3-sa-20240092.xml

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 236256

File Name: alinux3_sa_2024-0092.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-20592

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 6

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-46329

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:linux-firmware, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:iwl3945-firmware, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:iwl100-firmware, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:iwl5000-firmware, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:iwl6000-firmware, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:iwl6000g2a-firmware, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:iwl105-firmware, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:iwl5150-firmware, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libertas-sd8686-firmware, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:iwl135-firmware, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:iwl3160-firmware, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:iwl7260-firmware, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:iwl2030-firmware, cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:iwl6000g2b-firmware, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libertas-usb8388-firmware, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:iwl2000-firmware, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:iwl4965-firmware, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libertas-usb8388-olpc-firmware, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:iwl1000-firmware, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:iwl6050-firmware, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:libertas-sd8787-firmware

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/Alibaba/release, Host/Alibaba/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/31/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/3/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-46329, CVE-2023-20569, CVE-2023-20592