The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0724 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * kernel: use-after-free in sch_qfq network scheduler (CVE-2023-4921)

    * kernel: inactive elements in nft_pipapo_walk (CVE-2023-6817)

    * kernel: ktls overwrites readonly memory pages when using function splice with a ktls socket as     destination (CVE-2024-0646)

    * kernel: use-after-free vulnerability in function sco_sock_sendmsg() (CVE-2021-3640)

    * kernel: improper input validation may lead to privilege escalation (CVE-2021-4204)

    * kernel: memory leak for large arguments in video_usercopy function in     drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c (CVE-2021-30002)

    * kernel: eBPF verification flaw (CVE-2021-34866)

    * kernel: smb2_ioctl_query_info NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2022-0168)

    * kernel: Linux ebpf logic vulnerability leads to critical memory read and write gaining root privileges     (CVE-2022-0500)

    * kernel: NULL pointer dereference in udf_expand_file_adinicbdue() during writeback (CVE-2022-0617)

    * kernel: possible race condition in drivers/tty/tty_buffers.c (CVE-2022-1462)

    * kernel: buffer overflow in nft_set_desc_concat_parse() (CVE-2022-2078)

    * kernel: nf_tables cross-table potential use-after-free may lead to local privilege escalation     (CVE-2022-2586)

    * kernel: netfilter: nf_conntrack_irc message handling issue (CVE-2022-2663)

    * kernel: memory leak in ipv6_renew_options() (CVE-2022-3524)

    * kernel: nfp: use-after-free in area_cache_get() (CVE-2022-3545)

    * kernel: data races around icsk->icsk_af_ops in do_ipv6_setsockopt (CVE-2022-3566)

    * kernel: Rate limit overflow messages in r8152 in intr_callback (CVE-2022-3594)

    * kernel: memory leak in l2cap_recv_acldata of the file net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c (CVE-2022-3619)

    * kernel: denial of service in follow_page_pte in mm/gup.c due to poisoned pte entry (CVE-2022-3623)

    * kernel: Double-free in split_2MB_gtt_entry when function intel_gvt_dma_map_guest_page failed     (CVE-2022-3707)

    * kernel: possible to use the debugger to write zero into a location of choice (CVE-2022-21499)

    * kernel: local privileges escalation in kernel/bpf/verifier.c (CVE-2022-23222)

    * kernel: Executable Space Protection Bypass (CVE-2022-25265)

    * kernel: double free in usb_8dev_start_xmit in drivers/net/can/usb/usb_8dev.c (CVE-2022-28388)

    * kernel: double free in ems_usb_start_xmit in drivers/net/can/usb/ems_usb.c (CVE-2022-28390)

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.

The remote Rocky Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2023:4378 advisory.

  - A race condition in the x86 KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 6.1-rc6 allows guest OS users to     cause a denial of service (host OS crash or host OS memory corruption) when nested virtualisation and the     TDP MMU are enabled. (CVE-2022-45869)

  - A speculative pointer dereference problem exists in the Linux Kernel on the do_prlimit() function. The     resource argument value is controlled and is used in pointer arithmetic for the 'rlim' variable and can be     used to leak the contents. We recommend upgrading past version 6.1.8 or commit     739790605705ddcf18f21782b9c99ad7d53a8c11 (CVE-2023-0458)

  - The Linux kernel allows userspace processes to enable mitigations by calling prctl with     PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL which disables the speculation feature as well as by using seccomp. We had noticed     that on VMs of at least one major cloud provider, the kernel still left the victim process exposed to     attacks in some cases even after enabling the spectre-BTI mitigation with prctl. The same behavior can be     observed on a bare-metal machine when forcing the mitigation to IBRS on boot command line. This happened     because when plain IBRS was enabled (not enhanced IBRS), the kernel had some logic that determined that     STIBP was not needed. The IBRS bit implicitly protects against cross-thread branch target injection.
    However, with legacy IBRS, the IBRS bit was cleared on returning to userspace, due to performance reasons,     which disabled the implicit STIBP and left userspace threads vulnerable to cross-thread branch target     injection against which STIBP protects. (CVE-2023-1998)

  - A heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Linux Kernel ipvlan network driver can be exploited to     achieve local privilege escalation. The out-of-bounds write is caused by missing skb->cb initialization in     the ipvlan network driver. The vulnerability is reachable if CONFIG_IPVLAN is enabled. We recommend     upgrading past commit 90cbed5247439a966b645b34eb0a2e037836ea8e. (CVE-2023-3090)

  - An issue was discovered in fl_set_geneve_opt in net/sched/cls_flower.c in the Linux kernel before 6.3.7.
    It allows an out-of-bounds write in the flower classifier code via TCA_FLOWER_KEY_ENC_OPTS_GENEVE packets.
    This may result in denial of service or privilege escalation. (CVE-2023-35788)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
190110	RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2024:0724)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	2/7/2024	3/6/2025	high
179473	Rocky Linux 9 : kernel-rt (RLSA-2023:4378)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	8/8/2023	8/8/2023	high

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