The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.10.82-83.359. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2022-008 advisory.
A vulnerability was found in Linux kernel, where a use-after-frees in nouveau’s postclose() handler could happen if removing device (that is not common to remove video card physically without power-off, but same happens if unbind the driver). (CVE-2020-27820)
A flaw use-after-free in function sco_sock_sendmsg() of the Linux kernel HCI subsystem was found in the way user calls ioct UFFDIO_REGISTER or other way triggers race condition of the call sco_conn_del() together with the call sco_sock_sendmsg() with the expected controllable faulting memory page. A privileged local user could use this flaw to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system.
(CVE-2021-3640)
A flaw was found in the Linux SCTP stack. A blind attacker may be able to kill an existing SCTP association through invalid chunks if the attacker knows the IP-addresses and port numbers being used and the attacker can send packets with spoofed IP addresses. (CVE-2021-3772)
A race condition was found in the Linux kernel’s ebpf verifier between bpf_map_update_elem and bpf_map_freeze due to a missing lock in kernel/bpf/syscall.c. In this flaw, a local user with a special privilege (cap_sys_admin or cap_bpf) can modify the frozen mapped address space. This flaw affects kernel versions prior to 5.16 rc2. (CVE-2021-4001)
A memory leak flaw in the Linux kernel’s hugetlbfs memory usage was found in the way the user maps some regions of memory twice using shmget() which are aligned to PUD alignment with the fault of some of the memory pages. A local user could use this flaw to get unauthorized access to some data. (CVE-2021-4002)
dp_link_settings_write in drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_debugfs.c in the Linux kernel through 5.14.14 allows a heap-based buffer overflow by an attacker who can write a string to the AMD GPU display drivers debug filesystem. There are no checks on size within parse_write_buffer_into_params when it uses the size of copy_from_user to copy a userspace buffer into a 40-byte heap buffer. (CVE-2021-42327)
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory ALASKERNEL-5.10-2022-008.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(168436);
script_version("1.3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/09/05");
script_cve_id(
"CVE-2020-27820",
"CVE-2021-3640",
"CVE-2021-3772",
"CVE-2021-4001",
"CVE-2021-4002",
"CVE-2021-42327"
);
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALASKERNEL-5.10-2022-008)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.10.82-83.359. It is, therefore, affected by multiple
vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2022-008 advisory.
- A vulnerability was found in Linux kernel, where a use-after-frees in nouveau's postclose() handler could
happen if removing device (that is not common to remove video card physically without power-off, but same
happens if unbind the driver). (CVE-2020-27820)
- A flaw use-after-free in function sco_sock_sendmsg() of the Linux kernel HCI subsystem was found in the
way user calls ioct UFFDIO_REGISTER or other way triggers race condition of the call sco_conn_del()
together with the call sco_sock_sendmsg() with the expected controllable faulting memory page. A
privileged local user could use this flaw to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system.
(CVE-2021-3640)
- A flaw was found in the Linux SCTP stack. A blind attacker may be able to kill an existing SCTP
association through invalid chunks if the attacker knows the IP-addresses and port numbers being used and
the attacker can send packets with spoofed IP addresses. (CVE-2021-3772)
- A race condition was found in the Linux kernel's ebpf verifier between bpf_map_update_elem and
bpf_map_freeze due to a missing lock in kernel/bpf/syscall.c. In this flaw, a local user with a special
privilege (cap_sys_admin or cap_bpf) can modify the frozen mapped address space. This flaw affects kernel
versions prior to 5.16 rc2. (CVE-2021-4001)
- A memory leak flaw in the Linux kernel's hugetlbfs memory usage was found in the way the user maps some
regions of memory twice using shmget() which are aligned to PUD alignment with the fault of some of the
memory pages. A local user could use this flaw to get unauthorized access to some data. (CVE-2021-4002)
- dp_link_settings_write in drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm_debugfs.c in the Linux kernel
through 5.14.14 allows a heap-based buffer overflow by an attacker who can write a string to the AMD GPU
display drivers debug filesystem. There are no checks on size within parse_write_buffer_into_params when
it uses the size of copy_from_user to copy a userspace buffer into a 40-byte heap buffer. (CVE-2021-42327)
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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script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-27820.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-3640.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-3772.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-4001.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-4002.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-42327.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update kernel' to update your system.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2021-3640");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2021/10/21");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2022/01/21");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2022/12/07");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bpftool");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bpftool-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-headers");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-livepatch-5.10.82-83.359");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-tools");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-tools-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-tools-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perf");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perf-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python-perf");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python-perf-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2022-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("kpatch.nasl", "ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("rpm.inc");
include("hotfixes.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var alas_release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(alas_release) || !strlen(alas_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d+|-\d+)", string:alas_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "2")
{
if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux 2", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}
if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
if (get_one_kb_item("Host/kpatch/kernel-cves"))
{
set_hotfix_type("kpatch");
var cve_list = make_list("CVE-2020-27820", "CVE-2021-3640", "CVE-2021-3772", "CVE-2021-4001", "CVE-2021-4002", "CVE-2021-42327");
if (hotfix_cves_check(cve_list))
{
audit(AUDIT_PATCH_INSTALLED, "kpatch hotfix for ALASKERNEL-5.10-2022-008");
}
else
{
__rpm_report = hotfix_reporting_text();
}
}
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'bpftool-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'bpftool-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'bpftool-debuginfo-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'bpftool-debuginfo-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'kernel-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'kernel-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'kernel-debuginfo-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'kernel-debuginfo-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'kernel-devel-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'kernel-devel-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'kernel-headers-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'kernel-headers-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'kernel-headers-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'kernel-livepatch-5.10.82-83.359-1.0-0.amzn2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'kernel-livepatch-5.10.82-83.359-1.0-0.amzn2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'kernel-tools-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'kernel-tools-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'kernel-tools-debuginfo-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'kernel-tools-debuginfo-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'kernel-tools-devel-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'kernel-tools-devel-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'perf-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'perf-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'perf-debuginfo-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'perf-debuginfo-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'python-perf-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'python-perf-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'python-perf-debuginfo-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'},
{'reference':'python-perf-debuginfo-5.10.82-83.359.amzn2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-5.10'}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
var reference = NULL;
var _release = NULL;
var sp = NULL;
var _cpu = NULL;
var el_string = NULL;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
var epoch = NULL;
var allowmaj = NULL;
var exists_check = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
if (reference && _release && (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check))) {
if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "bpftool / bpftool-debuginfo / kernel / etc");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
amazon | linux | bpftool | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bpftool |
amazon | linux | bpftool-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bpftool-debuginfo |
amazon | linux | kernel | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel |
amazon | linux | kernel-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-debuginfo |
amazon | linux | kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 |
amazon | linux | kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 |
amazon | linux | kernel-devel | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-devel |
amazon | linux | kernel-headers | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-headers |
amazon | linux | kernel-livepatch-5.10.82-83.359 | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-livepatch-5.10.82-83.359 |
amazon | linux | kernel-tools | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-tools |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-27820
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3640
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3772
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-4001
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-4002
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-42327
alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALASKERNEL-5.10-2022-008.html
alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-27820.html
alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-3640.html
alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-3772.html
alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-4001.html
alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-4002.html
alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-42327.html