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Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2019-1293)

2019-09-3000:00:00
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An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the way Linux kernel’s KVM hypervisor implements the Coalesced MMIO write operation. It operates on an MMIO ring buffer ‘struct kvm_coalesced_mmio’ object, wherein write indices ‘ring->first’ and ‘ring->last’ value could be supplied by a host user-space process. 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. (CVE-2019-14821)

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Linux kernel’s vhost functionality that translates virtqueue buffers to IOVs, logged the buffer descriptors during migration. A privileged guest user able to pass descriptors with invalid length to the host when migration is underway, could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the host.(CVE-2019-14835)

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2019-1293.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(129407);
  script_version("1.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2022/05/23");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-14821", "CVE-2019-14835");
  script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2019-1293");

  script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2019-1293)");
  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 out-of-bounds access issue was found in the way Linux kernel's KVM
hypervisor implements the Coalesced MMIO write operation. It operates
on an MMIO ring buffer 'struct kvm_coalesced_mmio' object, wherein
write indices 'ring->first' and 'ring->last' value could be supplied
by a host user-space process. 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. (CVE-2019-14821)

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Linux kernel's vhost
functionality that translates virtqueue buffers to IOVs, logged the
buffer descriptors during migration. A privileged guest user able to
pass descriptors with invalid length to the host when migration is
underway, could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the
host.(CVE-2019-14835)"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2019-1293.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:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/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-2019-14835");
  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:"2019/09/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/09/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/09/30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2022 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-4.14.146-93.123.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"kernel-debuginfo-4.14.146-93.123.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", cpu:"i686", reference:"kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-4.14.146-93.123.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.14.146-93.123.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"kernel-devel-4.14.146-93.123.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"kernel-headers-4.14.146-93.123.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"kernel-tools-4.14.146-93.123.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.14.146-93.123.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"kernel-tools-devel-4.14.146-93.123.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"perf-4.14.146-93.123.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"perf-debuginfo-4.14.146-93.123.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");
}
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