CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
76.7%
The Linux kernel did not properly suppress hugetlbfs support in x86 PV guests, which could allow local PV guest users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) by attempting to access a hugetlbfs mapped area. (CVE-2016-3961 / XSA-174)
A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel’s ASN.1 DER decoder processed certain certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local, unprivileged user could use a specially crafted X.509 certificate DER file to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2016-0758)
Multiple race conditions in the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allow local users to cause a denial of service (disk corruption) by writing to a page that is associated with a different user’s file after unsynchronized hole punching and page-fault handling. (CVE-2015-8839)
The following flaws were also fixed in this version :
CVE-2016-4557 : Use after free vulnerability via double fdput
CVE-2016-4581 : Slave being first propagated copy causes oops in propagate_mnt
CVE-2016-4486 : Information leak in rtnetlink
CVE-2016-4485 : Information leak in llc module
CVE-2016-4558 : bpf: refcnt overflow
CVE-2016-4565 : infiniband: Unprivileged process can overwrite kernel memory using rdma_ucm.ko
CVE-2016-0758 : tags with indefinite length can corrupt pointers in asn1_find_indefinite_length()
CVE-2015-8839 : ext4 filesystem page fault race condition with fallocate call.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2016-703.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(91241);
script_version("2.7");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/04/11 17:23:06");
script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8839", "CVE-2016-0758", "CVE-2016-3961", "CVE-2016-4485", "CVE-2016-4486", "CVE-2016-4557", "CVE-2016-4558", "CVE-2016-4565", "CVE-2016-4581");
script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2016-703");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2016-703)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"The Linux kernel did not properly suppress hugetlbfs support in x86 PV
guests, which could allow local PV guest users to cause a denial of
service (guest OS crash) by attempting to access a hugetlbfs mapped
area. (CVE-2016-3961 / XSA-174)
A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder
processed certain certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A
local, unprivileged user could use a specially crafted X.509
certificate DER file to crash the system or, potentially, escalate
their privileges on the system. (CVE-2016-0758)
Multiple race conditions in the ext4 filesystem implementation in the
Linux kernel before 4.5 allow local users to cause a denial of service
(disk corruption) by writing to a page that is associated with a
different user's file after unsynchronized hole punching and
page-fault handling. (CVE-2015-8839)
The following flaws were also fixed in this version :
CVE-2016-4557 : Use after free vulnerability via double fdput
CVE-2016-4581 : Slave being first propagated copy causes oops in
propagate_mnt
CVE-2016-4486 : Information leak in rtnetlink
CVE-2016-4485 : Information leak in llc module
CVE-2016-4558 : bpf: refcnt overflow
CVE-2016-4565 : infiniband: Unprivileged process can overwrite kernel
memory using rdma_ucm.ko
CVE-2016-0758 : tags with indefinite length can corrupt pointers in
asn1_find_indefinite_length()
CVE-2015-8839 : ext4 filesystem page fault race condition with
fallocate call."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2016-703.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Run 'yum update kernel' to update your system."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'Linux BPF doubleput UAF Privilege Escalation');
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
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-i686");
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-doc");
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-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:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/05/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/05/19");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(release) || !strlen(release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "A")
{
if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux AMI", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}
if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"kernel-4.4.10-22.54.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"kernel-debuginfo-4.4.10-22.54.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", cpu:"i686", reference:"kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-4.4.10-22.54.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.4.10-22.54.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"kernel-devel-4.4.10-22.54.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"kernel-doc-4.4.10-22.54.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"kernel-headers-4.4.10-22.54.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"kernel-tools-4.4.10-22.54.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.4.10-22.54.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"kernel-tools-devel-4.4.10-22.54.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"perf-4.4.10-22.54.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"perf-debuginfo-4.4.10-22.54.amzn1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "kernel / kernel-debuginfo / kernel-debuginfo-common-i686 / etc");
}
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8839
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-0758
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-3961
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4485
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4486
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4557
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4558
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4565
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4581
alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2016-703.html
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
76.7%