An issue was discovered in the proc_pid_stack function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel. An attacker with a local account can trick the stack unwinder code to leak stack contents to userspace.
The fix allows only root to inspect the kernel stack of an arbitrary task.(CVE-2018-17972)
A vulnerability was discovered in the Linux kernel that allows an attacker to escalate privileges with using a 64-bit ARM architecture.
A local attacker with permission to create KVM-based virtual machines can both panic the hypervisor by triggering an illegal exception return (resulting in a DoS) and to redirect execution elsewhere within the hypervisor with full register control, instead of causing a return to the guest.(CVE-2018-18021)
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2018-1100.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(118804);
script_version("1.5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2022/06/01");
script_cve_id("CVE-2018-17972", "CVE-2018-18021");
script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2018-1100");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2018-1100)");
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:
"An issue was discovered in the proc_pid_stack function in
fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel. An attacker with a local account
can trick the stack unwinder code to leak stack contents to userspace.
The fix allows only root to inspect the kernel stack of an arbitrary
task.(CVE-2018-17972)
A vulnerability was discovered in the Linux kernel that allows an
attacker to escalate privileges with using a 64-bit ARM architecture.
A local attacker with permission to create KVM-based virtual machines
can both panic the hypervisor by triggering an illegal exception
return (resulting in a DoS) and to redirect execution elsewhere within
the hypervisor with full register control, instead of causing a return
to the guest.(CVE-2018-18021)"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2018-1100.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:N/A:N");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2018-17972");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
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-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:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/10/03");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/11/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/11/08");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2022 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-4.14.77-69.57.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"kernel-debuginfo-4.14.77-69.57.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", cpu:"i686", reference:"kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-4.14.77-69.57.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.14.77-69.57.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"kernel-devel-4.14.77-69.57.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"kernel-headers-4.14.77-69.57.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"kernel-tools-4.14.77-69.57.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.14.77-69.57.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"kernel-tools-devel-4.14.77-69.57.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"perf-4.14.77-69.57.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"perf-debuginfo-4.14.77-69.57.amzn1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(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");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
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-i686 | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-debuginfo-common-i686 |
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-tools | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-tools |
amazon | linux | kernel-tools-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-tools-debuginfo |
amazon | linux | kernel-tools-devel | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:kernel-tools-devel |
amazon | linux | perf | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perf |