The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:3838 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * hw: Machine Check Error on Page Size Change (IFU) (CVE-2018-12207)

    * hw: TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA) (CVE-2019-11135)

    * hw: Intel GPU Denial Of Service while accessing MMIO in lower power state (CVE-2019-0154)

    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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:3840 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * hw: Machine Check Error on Page Size Change (IFU) (CVE-2018-12207)

    * hw: TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA) (CVE-2019-11135)

    * hw: Intel GPU Denial Of Service while accessing MMIO in lower power state (CVE-2019-0154)

    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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:3844 advisory.

    The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with     extremely high determinism requirements.

    Security Fix(es):

    * hw: Machine Check Error on Page Size Change (IFU) (CVE-2018-12207)

    * hw: TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA) (CVE-2019-11135)

    * hw: Intel GPU Denial Of Service while accessing MMIO in lower power state (CVE-2019-0154)

    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.

The version of AOS installed on the remote host is prior to 5.16.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the NXSA-AOS-5.16.1 advisory.

  - In Sudo before 1.8.28, an attacker with access to a Runas ALL sudoer account can bypass certain policy     blacklists and session PAM modules, and can cause incorrect logging, by invoking sudo with a crafted user     ID. For example, this allows bypass of !root configuration, and USER= logging, for a sudo -u     \#$((0xffffffff)) command. (CVE-2019-14287)

  - OpenSLP as used in ESXi and the Horizon DaaS appliances has a heap overwrite issue. VMware has evaluated     the severity of this issue to be in the Critical severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 9.8.
    (CVE-2019-5544)

  - Empty or malformed p256-ECDH public keys may trigger a segmentation fault due values being improperly     sanitized before being copied into memory and used. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 60.8, Firefox     < 68, and Thunderbird < 60.8. (CVE-2019-11729)

  - When encrypting with a block cipher, if a call to NSC_EncryptUpdate was made with data smaller than the     block size, a small out of bounds write could occur. This could have caused heap corruption and a     potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and     Firefox < 71. (CVE-2019-11745)

  - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.18.7. In block/blk-core.c, there is an
    __blk_drain_queue() use-after-free because a certain error case is mishandled. (CVE-2018-20856)

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

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-3834 advisory.

    - [drm] drm/i915: Lower RM timeout to avoid DSI hard hangs (Dave Airlie) [1756815 1756816] {CVE-2019-0154}
    - [drm] drm/i915/gen8+: Add RC6 CTX corruption WA (Dave Airlie) [1756815 1756816] {CVE-2019-0154}
    - [drm] drm/i915/cmdparser: Ignore Length operands during command matching (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883]     {CVE-2019-0155}
    - [drm] drm/i915/cmdparser: Add support for backward jumps (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883] {CVE-2019-0155}
    - [drm] drm/i915/cmdparser: Use explicit goto for error paths (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883]     {CVE-2019-0155}
    - [drm] drm/i915: Add gen9 BCS cmdparsing (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883] {CVE-2019-0155}
    - [drm] drm/i915: Allow parsing of unsized batches (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883] {CVE-2019-0155}
    - [drm] drm/i915: Support ro ppgtt mapped cmdparser shadow buffers (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883]     {CVE-2019-0155}
    - [drm] drm/i915: Add support for mandatory cmdparsing (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883] {CVE-2019-0155}
    - [drm] drm/i915: Remove Master tables from cmdparser (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883] {CVE-2019-0155}
    - [drm] drm/i915: Disable Secure Batches for gen6+ (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883] {CVE-2019-0155}
    - [drm] drm/i915: Rename gen7 cmdparser tables (Dave Airlie) [1756882 1756883] {CVE-2019-0155}
    - [x86] tsx: Add config options to set tsx=on|off|auto (Waiman Long) [1766539 1766540] {CVE-2019-11135}
    - [documentation] x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async Abort (Waiman Long) [1766539     1766540] {CVE-2019-11135}
    - [x86] tsx: Add 'auto' option to the tsx= cmdline parameter (Waiman Long) [1766539 1766540]     {CVE-2019-11135}
    - [x86] speculation/taa: Add sysfs reporting for TSX Async Abort (Waiman Long) [1766539 1766540]     {CVE-2019-11135}
    - [x86] speculation/taa: Add mitigation for TSX Async Abort (Waiman Long) [1766539 1766540]     {CVE-2019-11135}
    - [x86] cpu: Add a 'tsx=' cmdline option with TSX disabled by default (Waiman Long) [1766539 1766540]     {CVE-2019-11135}
    - [x86] cpu: Add a helper function x86_read_arch_cap_msr() (Waiman Long) [1766539 1766540]     {CVE-2019-11135}
    - [x86] msr: Add the IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR (Waiman Long) [1766539 1766540] {CVE-2019-11135}
    - [documentation] documentation: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT documentation (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343]     {CVE-2018-12207}
    - [x86] kvm: x86: mmu: Recovery of shattered NX large pages (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343]     {CVE-2018-12207}
    - [virt] kvm: Add helper function for creating VM worker threads (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343]     {CVE-2018-12207}
    - [x86] kvm: mmu: ITLB_MULTIHIT mitigation (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343] {CVE-2018-12207}
    - [kernel] cpu/speculation: Uninline and export CPU mitigations helpers (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343]     {CVE-2018-12207}
    - [x86] cpu: Add Tremont to the cpu vulnerability whitelist (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343]     {CVE-2018-12207}
    - [x86] Add ITLB_MULTIHIT bug infrastructure (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343] {CVE-2018-12207}
    - [x86] kvm: vmx, svm: always run with EFER.NXE=1 when shadow paging is active (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009     1690343] {CVE-2018-12207}
    - [x86] kvm: x86: add tracepoints around __direct_map and FNAME(fetch) (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343]     {CVE-2018-12207}
    - [x86] kvm: x86: change kvm_mmu_page_get_gfn BUG_ON to WARN_ON (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343]     {CVE-2018-12207}
    - [x86] kvm: x86: remove now unneeded hugepage gfn adjustment (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343]     {CVE-2018-12207}
    - [x86] kvm: x86: make FNAME(fetch) and __direct_map more similar (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343]     {CVE-2018-12207}
    - [x86] kvm: mmu: Do not release the page inside mmu_set_spte() (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343]     {CVE-2018-12207}
    - [x86] kvm: x86: mmu: Remove unused parameter of __direct_map() (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343]     {CVE-2018-12207}
    - [virt] kvm: Convert kvm_lock to a mutex (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343] {CVE-2018-12207}
    - [x86] kvm: mmu: drop vcpu param in gpte_access (Paolo Bonzini) [1733009 1690343] {CVE-2018-12207}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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.

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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

Security Fix(es) :

* hw: Machine Check Error on Page Size Change (IFU) (CVE-2018-12207)

* hw: TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA) (CVE-2019-11135)

* hw: Intel GPU Denial Of Service while accessing MMIO in lower power state (CVE-2019-0154)

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.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12-SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed :

CVE-2018-12207: Untrusted virtual machines on Intel CPUs could exploit a race condition in the Instruction Fetch Unit of the Intel CPU to cause a Machine Exception during Page Size Change, causing the CPU core to be non-functional.

The Linux Kernel kvm hypervisor was adjusted to avoid page size changes in executable pages by splitting / merging huge pages into small pages as needed. More information can be found on https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7023735 CVE-2019-16995: Fix a memory leak in hsr_dev_finalize() if hsr_add_port failed to add a port, which may have caused denial of service (bsc#1152685).

CVE-2019-11135: Aborting an asynchronous TSX operation on Intel CPUs with Transactional Memory support could be used to facilitate sidechannel information leaks out of microarchitectural buffers, similar to the previously described 'Microarchitectural Data Sampling' attack.

The Linux kernel was supplemented with the option to disable TSX operation altogether (requiring CPU Microcode updates on older systems) and better flushing of microarchitectural buffers (VERW).

The set of options available is described in our TID at https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7024251 CVE-2019-16233: drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c did not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. (bsc#1150457).

CVE-2019-10220: Added sanity checks on the pathnames passed to the user space. (bsc#1144903).

CVE-2019-17666: rtlwifi: Fix potential overflow in P2P code (bsc#1154372).

CVE-2019-17133: cfg80211 wireless extension did not reject a long SSID IE, leading to a Buffer Overflow (bsc#1153158).

CVE-2019-16232: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference in the Marwell libertas driver (bsc#1150465).

CVE-2019-16234: iwlwifi pcie driver did not check the alloc_workqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. (bsc#1150452).

CVE-2019-17055: The AF_ISDN network module in the Linux kernel did not enforce CAP_NET_RAW, which meant that unprivileged users could create a raw socket (bnc#1152782).

CVE-2019-17056: The AF_NFC network module did not enforce CAP_NET_RAW, which meant that unprivileged users could create a raw socket (bsc#1152788).

CVE-2019-16413: The 9p filesystem did not protect i_size_write() properly, which caused an i_size_read() infinite loop and denial of service on SMP systems (bnc#1151347).

CVE-2019-15902: A backporting issue was discovered that re-introduced the Spectre vulnerability it had aimed to eliminate. This occurred because the backport process depends on cherry picking specific commits, and because two (correctly ordered) code lines were swapped (bnc#1149376).

CVE-2019-15291: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference issue that could be caused by a malicious USB device (bnc#1146519).

CVE-2019-15807: Fixed a memory leak in the SCSI module that could be abused to cause denial of service (bnc#1148938).

CVE-2019-13272: Fixed a mishandled the recording of the credentials of a process that wants to create a ptrace relationship, which allowed local users to obtain root access by leveraging certain scenarios with a parent-child process relationship, where a parent drops privileges and calls execve (potentially allowing control by an attacker).
(bnc#1140671).

CVE-2019-14821: An out-of-bounds access issue was fixed in the kernel's KVM hypervisor. An unprivileged host user or process with access to '/dev/kvm' device could use this flaw to crash the host kernel, resulting in a denial of service or potentially escalating privileges on the system (bnc#1151350).

CVE-2019-15505: An out-of-bounds issue had been fixed that could be caused by crafted USB device traffic (bnc#1147122).

CVE-2017-18595: A double free in allocate_trace_buffer was fixed (bnc#1149555).

CVE-2019-14835: A buffer overflow flaw was found in the kernel's vhost functionality that translates virtqueue buffers to IOVs. A privileged guest user able to pass descriptors with invalid length to the host could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the host (bnc#1150112).

CVE-2019-15216: A NULL pointer dereference was fixed that could be malicious USB device (bnc#1146361).

CVE-2019-15924: A a NULL pointer dereference has been fixed in the drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k module (bnc#1149612).

CVE-2019-9456: An out-of-bounds write in the USB monitor driver has been fixed. This issue could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. (bnc#1150025).

CVE-2019-15926: An out-of-bounds access was fixed in the drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl module. (bnc#1149527).

CVE-2019-15927: An out-of-bounds access was fixed in the sound/usb/mixer module (bnc#1149522).

CVE-2019-15666: There was an out-of-bounds array access in the net/xfrm module that could cause denial of service (bnc#1148394).

CVE-2017-18379: An out-of-boundary access was fixed in the drivers/nvme/target module (bnc#1143187).

CVE-2019-15219: A NULL pointer dereference was fixed that could be abused by a malicious USB device (bnc#1146519 1146524).

CVE-2019-15220: A use-after-free issue was fixed that could be caused by a malicious USB device (bnc#1146519 1146526).

CVE-2019-15221: A NULL pointer dereference was fixed that could be caused by a malicious USB device (bnc#1146519 1146529).

CVE-2019-14814: A heap-based buffer overflow was fixed in the marvell wifi chip driver. That issue allowed local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code (bnc#1146512).

CVE-2019-14815: A missing length check while parsing WMM IEs was fixed (bsc#1146512, bsc#1146514, bsc#1146516).

CVE-2019-14816: A heap-based buffer overflow in the marvell wifi chip driver was fixed. Local users would have abused this issue to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code (bnc#1146516).

CVE-2017-18509: An issue in net/ipv6 as fixed. By setting a specific socket option, an attacker could control a pointer in kernel land and cause an inet_csk_listen_stop general protection fault, or potentially execute arbitrary code under certain circumstances. The issue can be triggered as root (e.g., inside a default LXC container or with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability) or after namespace unsharing. (bnc#1145477)

CVE-2019-9506: The Bluetooth BR/EDR specification used to permit sufficiently low encryption key length and did not prevent an attacker from influencing the key length negotiation. This allowed practical brute-force attacks (aka 'KNOB') that could decrypt traffic and inject arbitrary ciphertext without the victim noticing (bnc#1137865).

CVE-2019-15098: A NULL pointer dereference in drivers/net/wireless/ath was fixed (bnc#1146378).

CVE-2019-15290: A NULL pointer dereference in ath6kl_usb_alloc_urb_from_pipe was fixed (bsc#1146378).

CVE-2019-15239: A incorrect patch to net/ipv4 was fixed. By adding to a write queue between disconnection and re-connection, a local attacker could trigger multiple use-after-free conditions. This could result in kernel crashes or potentially in privilege escalation.
(bnc#1146589)

CVE-2019-15212: A double-free issue was fixed in drivers/usb driver (bnc#1146391).

CVE-2016-10906: A use-after-free issue was fixed in drivers/net/ethernet/arc (bnc#1146584).

CVE-2019-15211: A use-after-free issue caused by a malicious USB device was fixed in the drivers/media/v4l2-core driver (bnc#1146519).

CVE-2019-15217: A a NULL pointer dereference issue caused by a malicious USB device was fixed in the drivers/media/usb/zr364xx driver (bnc#1146519).

CVE-2019-15214: An a use-after-free issue in the sound subsystem was fixed (bnc#1146519).

CVE-2019-15218: A NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device was fixed in the drivers/media/usb/siano driver (bnc#1146413).

CVE-2019-15215: A use-after-free issue caused by a malicious USB device was fixed in the drivers/media/usb/cpia2 driver (bnc#1146425).

CVE-2018-20976: A use-after-free issue was fixed in the fs/xfs driver (bnc#1146285).

CVE-2017-18551: An out-of-bounds write was fixed in the drivers/i2c driver (bnc#1146163).

CVE-2019-0154: An unprotected read access to i915 registers has been fixed that could have been abused to facilitate a local denial-of-service attack. (bsc#1135966)

CVE-2019-0155: A privilege escalation vulnerability has been fixed in the i915 module that allowed batch buffers from user mode to gain super user privileges. (bsc#1135967)

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
130930	RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2019:3838)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	11/13/2019	11/7/2024	medium
130932	RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2019:3840)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	11/13/2019	11/7/2024	medium
130998	RHEL 6 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2019:3844)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	11/14/2019	11/7/2024	medium
164695	Nutanix AOS : Multiple Vulnerabilities (NXSA-AOS-5.16.1)	Nessus	Misc.	9/6/2022	2/17/2025	critical
131110	Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2019-3834)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	11/18/2019	10/22/2024	medium
131032	CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2019:3834)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	11/15/2019	12/13/2019	medium
135525	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2020-1396)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	4/15/2020	4/25/2023	critical
130949	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:2949-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	11/13/2019	1/19/2023	critical

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