An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s keyring handling code, where in key_reject_and_link() an uninitialised variable would eventually lead to arbitrary free address which could allow attacker to use a use-after-free style attack. (CVE-2016-4470, Important)
The ovl_setattr function in fs/overlayfs/inode.c in the Linux kernel through 4.3.3 attempts to merge distinct setattr operations, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and modify the attributes of arbitrary overlay files via a crafted application.
(CVE-2015-8660, Moderate)
Red Hat would like to thank Nathan Williams for reporting CVE-2015-8660. The CVE-2016-4470 issue was discovered by David Howells (Red Hat Inc.).
The kernel-rt packages have been upgraded to the kernel-3.10.0-327.28.2.el7 source tree, which provides a number of bug fixes over the previous version. (BZ#1350307)
This update also fixes the following bugs :
Previously, use of the get/put_cpu_var() function in function refill_stock () from the memcontrol cgroup code lead to a ‘scheduling while atomic’ warning. With this update, refill_stock() uses the get/put_cpu_light() function instead, and the warnings no longer appear. (BZ#1347171)
Prior to this update, if a real time task pinned to a given CPU was taking 100% of the CPU time, then calls to the lru_add_drain_all() function on other CPUs blocked for an undetermined amount of time.
This caused latencies and undesired side effects. With this update, lru_add_drain_all() has been changed to drain the LRU pagevecs of remote CPUs. (BZ#1348523)
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# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2016:1541. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(92695);
script_version("2.13");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/24 15:35:41");
script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8660", "CVE-2016-4470");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2016:1541");
script_name(english:"RHEL 7 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2016:1541)");
script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security
impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base
score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each
vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which
enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism
requirements.
* A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's keyring handling code, where
in key_reject_and_link() an uninitialised variable would eventually
lead to arbitrary free address which could allow attacker to use a
use-after-free style attack. (CVE-2016-4470, Important)
* The ovl_setattr function in fs/overlayfs/inode.c in the Linux kernel
through 4.3.3 attempts to merge distinct setattr operations, which
allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and modify
the attributes of arbitrary overlay files via a crafted application.
(CVE-2015-8660, Moderate)
Red Hat would like to thank Nathan Williams for reporting
CVE-2015-8660. The CVE-2016-4470 issue was discovered by David Howells
(Red Hat Inc.).
The kernel-rt packages have been upgraded to the
kernel-3.10.0-327.28.2.el7 source tree, which provides a number of bug
fixes over the previous version. (BZ#1350307)
This update also fixes the following bugs :
* Previously, use of the get/put_cpu_var() function in function
refill_stock () from the memcontrol cgroup code lead to a 'scheduling
while atomic' warning. With this update, refill_stock() uses the
get/put_cpu_light() function instead, and the warnings no longer
appear. (BZ#1347171)
* Prior to this update, if a real time task pinned to a given CPU was
taking 100% of the CPU time, then calls to the lru_add_drain_all()
function on other CPUs blocked for an undetermined amount of time.
This caused latencies and undesired side effects. With this update,
lru_add_drain_all() has been changed to drain the LRU pagevecs of
remote CPUs. (BZ#1348523)"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1541"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-8660"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-4470"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
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:H/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:H/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:"exploit_framework_core", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploited_by_malware", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'Overlayfs Privilege Escalation');
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_canvas", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"canvas_package", value:'CANVAS');
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-kvm");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-kvm-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-kvm");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-kvm-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-trace");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-trace-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-trace-kvm");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-trace-kvm-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2015/12/28");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/08/02");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/08/03");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
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:"Red Hat Local Security Checks");
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", "Host/cpu");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
include("ksplice.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Red Hat" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Red Hat");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^7([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat 7.x", "Red Hat " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "s390" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Red Hat", cpu);
if (get_one_kb_item("Host/ksplice/kernel-cves"))
{
rm_kb_item(name:"Host/uptrack-uname-r");
cve_list = make_list("CVE-2015-8660", "CVE-2016-4470");
if (ksplice_cves_check(cve_list))
{
audit(AUDIT_PATCH_INSTALLED, "KSplice hotfix for RHSA-2016:1541");
}
else
{
__rpm_report = ksplice_reporting_text();
}
}
yum_updateinfo = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/yum-updateinfo");
if (!empty_or_null(yum_updateinfo))
{
rhsa = "RHSA-2016:1541";
yum_report = redhat_generate_yum_updateinfo_report(rhsa:rhsa);
if (!empty_or_null(yum_report))
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : yum_report
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
audit_message = "affected by Red Hat security advisory " + rhsa;
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, audit_message);
}
}
else
{
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-rt-3.10.0-327.28.2.rt56.234.el7_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-rt-debug-3.10.0-327.28.2.rt56.234.el7_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.28.2.rt56.234.el7_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-rt-debug-devel-3.10.0-327.28.2.rt56.234.el7_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-rt-debug-kvm-3.10.0-327.28.2.rt56.234.el7_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-rt-debug-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.28.2.rt56.234.el7_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.28.2.rt56.234.el7_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-327.28.2.rt56.234.el7_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-rt-devel-3.10.0-327.28.2.rt56.234.el7_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", reference:"kernel-rt-doc-3.10.0-327.28.2.rt56.234.el7_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-rt-kvm-3.10.0-327.28.2.rt56.234.el7_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-rt-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.28.2.rt56.234.el7_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-rt-trace-3.10.0-327.28.2.rt56.234.el7_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.28.2.rt56.234.el7_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-rt-trace-devel-3.10.0-327.28.2.rt56.234.el7_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-rt-trace-kvm-3.10.0-327.28.2.rt56.234.el7_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-rt-trace-kvm-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.28.2.rt56.234.el7_2")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : rpm_report_get() + redhat_report_package_caveat()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "kernel-rt / kernel-rt-debug / kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo / etc");
}
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
redhat | enterprise_linux | kernel-rt | p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt |
redhat | enterprise_linux | kernel-rt-debug | p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug |
redhat | enterprise_linux | kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo |
redhat | enterprise_linux | kernel-rt-debug-devel | p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-devel |
redhat | enterprise_linux | kernel-rt-debug-kvm | p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-kvm |
redhat | enterprise_linux | kernel-rt-debug-kvm-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debug-kvm-debuginfo |
redhat | enterprise_linux | kernel-rt-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debuginfo |
redhat | enterprise_linux | kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64 | p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64 |
redhat | enterprise_linux | kernel-rt-devel | p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-devel |
redhat | enterprise_linux | kernel-rt-doc | p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-rt-doc |