Remote Fedora 40 host affected by kernel vulnerabilities(CVE-2024-21823, CVE-2024-27401, CVE-2024-27400
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 199 |
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![]() | [SECURITY] Fedora 40 Update: kernel-6.8.10-300.fc40 | 22 May 202401:28 | – | fedora |
![]() | [SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: kernel-6.8.10-200.fc39 | 22 May 202401:22 | – | fedora |
![]() | Fedora: Security Advisory (FEDORA-2024-92664ae6fe) | 27 May 202400:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Fedora: Security Advisory (FEDORA-2024-49fcf86f58) | 27 May 202400:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6864-1) | 4 Jul 202400:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6864-2) | 8 Jul 202400:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6864-3) | 12 Jul 202400:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6870-2) | 8 Jul 202400:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | openSUSE: Security Advisory for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 0 for SLE 15 SP6) (SUSE-SU-2024:4217-1) | 6 Dec 202400:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6875-1) | 4 Jul 202400:00 | – | openvas |
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
##
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2024-92664ae6fe
#
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(197577);
script_version("1.4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/04/14");
script_cve_id(
"CVE-2024-21823",
"CVE-2024-27398",
"CVE-2024-27399",
"CVE-2024-27400",
"CVE-2024-27401",
"CVE-2024-35947",
"CVE-2024-35949"
);
script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2024-92664ae6fe");
script_name(english:"Fedora 40 : kernel (2024-92664ae6fe)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the
FEDORA-2024-92664ae6fe advisory.
The 6.8.10 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-92664ae6fe");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected kernel package.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/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:C/C:N/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-2024-21823");
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:"2024/05/14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2024/05/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2024/05/22");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2024-2025 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl", "linux_alt_patch_detect.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include('rpm.inc');
include('ksplice.inc');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || 'Fedora' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Fedora');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Fedora');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^40([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Fedora 40', 'Fedora ' + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Fedora', cpu);
if (get_one_kb_item('Host/ksplice/kernel-cves'))
{
rm_kb_item(name:'Host/uptrack-uname-r');
var cve_list = make_list('CVE-2024-21823', 'CVE-2024-27398', 'CVE-2024-27399', 'CVE-2024-27400', 'CVE-2024-27401', 'CVE-2024-35947', 'CVE-2024-35949');
if (ksplice_cves_check(cve_list))
{
audit(AUDIT_PATCH_INSTALLED, 'KSplice hotfix for FEDORA-2024-92664ae6fe');
}
else
{
__rpm_report = ksplice_reporting_text();
}
}
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'kernel-6.8.10-300.fc40', 'release':'FC40', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach 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;
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 (reference && _release) {
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, 'kernel');
}
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