Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0140: cloud-kernel bugfix, enhancement and (ALINUX3-SA-2026:0140)

high Nessus Plugin ID 317881

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 a vulnerability as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2026:0140 advisory.

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

CVE-2026-46333:
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ptrace: slightly saner 'get_dumpable()' logic The 'dumpability' of a task is fundamentally about the memory image of the task - the concept comes from whether it can core dump or not - and makes no sense when you don't have an associated mm.
And almost all users do in fact use it only for the case where the task has a mm pointer.
But we have one odd special case: ptrace_may_access() uses 'dumpable' to check various other things entirely independently of the MM (typically explicitly using flags like PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS). Including for threads that no longer have a VM (and maybe never did, like most kernel threads).
It's not what this flag was designed for, but it is what it is.
The ptrace code does check that the uid/gid matches, so you do have to be uid-0 to see kernel thread details, but this means that the traditional drop capabilities model doesn't make any difference for this all.
Make it all make a *bit* more sense by saying that if you don't have a MM pointer, we'll use a cached last dumpability flag if the thread ever had a MM (it will be zero for kernel threads since it is never set), and require a proper CAP_SYS_PTRACE capability to override.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 317881

File Name: alinux3_sa_2026-0140.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Alibaba Cloud Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/29/2026

Updated: 5/29/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-46333

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:kernel-debug-core, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:kernel-debug-modules, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:kernel-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:python3-perf, cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:kernel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:perf, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:kernel-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:bpftool, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:kernel-modules, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:kernel-tools-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:kernel-core, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:kernel-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:kernel-debug

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/29/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/15/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-46333

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