The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has multiple vulnerabilities in the kernel and USB drivers, potentially leading to denial of service, privilege escalation, and memory corruption
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 199 |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | CentOS 8 : kernel (CESA-2021:1578) | 24 May 202100:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | AlmaLinux 8 : kernel (ALSA-2021:1578) | 9 Feb 202200:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2021:1578) | 19 May 202100:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | RHEL 8 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2021:1739) | 19 May 202100:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Oracle Linux 7 / 8 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2020-5884) | 12 Oct 202000:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2021:1373) | 27 Apr 202100:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2021-9113) | 17 Mar 202100:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2021:1289) | 20 Apr 202100:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2021:1071) | 8 Apr 202100:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | RHEL 8 : kernel (RHSA-2021:1171) | 13 Apr 202100:00 | – | nessus |
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
##
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2021-1578.
##
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(149914);
script_version("1.7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/11/01");
script_cve_id(
"CVE-2019-18811",
"CVE-2019-19523",
"CVE-2019-19528",
"CVE-2020-0431",
"CVE-2020-11608",
"CVE-2020-12114",
"CVE-2020-12362",
"CVE-2020-12464",
"CVE-2020-14314",
"CVE-2020-14356",
"CVE-2020-15437",
"CVE-2020-24394",
"CVE-2020-25212",
"CVE-2020-25284",
"CVE-2020-25285",
"CVE-2020-25643",
"CVE-2020-25704",
"CVE-2020-27786",
"CVE-2020-27835",
"CVE-2020-28974",
"CVE-2020-35508",
"CVE-2020-36322",
"CVE-2021-0342"
);
script_name(english:"Oracle Linux 8 : kernel (ELSA-2021-1578)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the
ELSA-2021-1578 advisory.
- drm/i915/guc: Update to use firmware v49.0.1 (Dave Airlie) [1935281] {CVE-2020-12362}
- scsi: iscsi: Verify lengths on passthrough PDUs (Chris Leech) [1930833] {CVE-2021-27365}
- scsi: iscsi: Ensure sysfs attributes are limited to PAGE_SIZE (Chris Leech) [1930856] {CVE-2021-27363}
- scsi: iscsi: Restrict sessions and handles to admin capabilities (Chris Leech) [1930809]
{CVE-2021-27364}
- vt: Disable KD_FONT_OP_COPY (Dave Airlie) [1903937] {CVE-2020-28974}
- fix regression in 'epoll: Keep a reference on files added to the check list' (Carlos Maiolino) [1920776]
{CVE-2020-0466}
- do_epoll_ctl(): clean the failure exits up a bit (Carlos Maiolino) [1920776] {CVE-2020-0466}
- epoll: Keep a reference on files added to the check list (Carlos Maiolino) [1920776] {CVE-2020-0466}
- net/vmw_vsock: fix NULL pointer dereference (Jon Maloy) [1925600] {CVE-2021-26708}
- net/vmw_vsock: improve locking in vsock_connect_timeout() (Jon Maloy) [1925600] {CVE-2021-26708}
- vsock: fix locking in vsock_shutdown() (Jon Maloy) [1925600] {CVE-2021-26708}
- vsock: fix the race conditions in multi-transport support (Jon Maloy) [1925600] {CVE-2021-26708}
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux 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://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2021-1578.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/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:L/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-2020-25643");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss3_score_source", value:"CVE-2020-27786");
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:"2019/11/07");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2021/05/25");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2021/05/26");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bpftool");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-abi-stablelists");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-core");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-cross-headers");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-core");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-modules");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-modules-extra");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-modules");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-modules-extra");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools-libs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools-libs-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perf");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-perf");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Oracle Linux Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2021-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("linux_alt_patch_detect.nasl", "ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/OracleLinux", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/local_checks_enabled");
exit(0);
}
include('ksplice.inc');
include('rpm.inc');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/OracleLinux')) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux');
var os_release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(os_release) || !pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux)", string:os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux) .*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Oracle Linux');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^8([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux 8', 'Oracle Linux ' + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Oracle Linux', cpu);
var machine_uptrack_level = get_one_kb_item('Host/uptrack-uname-r');
if (machine_uptrack_level)
{
var trimmed_uptrack_level = ereg_replace(string:machine_uptrack_level, pattern:"\.(x86_64|i[3-6]86|aarch64)$", replace:'');
var fixed_uptrack_levels = ['4.18.0-305.el8'];
foreach var fixed_uptrack_level ( fixed_uptrack_levels ) {
if (rpm_spec_vers_cmp(a:trimmed_uptrack_level, b:fixed_uptrack_level) >= 0)
{
audit(AUDIT_PATCH_INSTALLED, 'KSplice hotfix for ELSA-2021-1578');
}
}
__rpm_report = 'Running KSplice level of ' + trimmed_uptrack_level + ' does not meet the minimum fixed level of ' + join(fixed_uptrack_levels, sep:' / ') + ' for this advisory.\n\n';
}
var kernel_major_minor = get_kb_item('Host/uname/major_minor');
if (empty_or_null(kernel_major_minor)) exit(1, 'Unable to determine kernel major-minor level.');
var expected_kernel_major_minor = '4.18';
if (kernel_major_minor != expected_kernel_major_minor)
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'running kernel level ' + expected_kernel_major_minor + ', it is running kernel level ' + kernel_major_minor);
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'bpftool-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0'},
{'reference':'kernel-headers-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-headers-4.18.0'},
{'reference':'kernel-tools-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-tools-4.18.0'},
{'reference':'kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0'},
{'reference':'kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0'},
{'reference':'perf-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-perf-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'bpftool-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-4.18.0'},
{'reference':'kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0'},
{'reference':'kernel-core-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-core-4.18.0'},
{'reference':'kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0'},
{'reference':'kernel-debug-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-debug-4.18.0'},
{'reference':'kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-debug-core-4.18.0'},
{'reference':'kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0'},
{'reference':'kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0'},
{'reference':'kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0'},
{'reference':'kernel-devel-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-devel-4.18.0'},
{'reference':'kernel-headers-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-headers-4.18.0'},
{'reference':'kernel-modules-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-modules-4.18.0'},
{'reference':'kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0'},
{'reference':'kernel-tools-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-tools-4.18.0'},
{'reference':'kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0'},
{'reference':'kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':'kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0'},
{'reference':'perf-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'python3-perf-4.18.0-305.el8', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];
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 = 'EL' + 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) {
if (exists_check) {
if (rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check) && 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++;
} else {
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_HOLE,
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 / kernel / kernel-abi-stablelists / etc');
}
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