The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.262-135.486. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1688 advisory.
A flaw in the processing of received ICMP errors (ICMP fragment needed and ICMP redirect) in the Linux kernel functionality was found to allow the ability to quickly scan open UDP ports. This flaw allows an off-path remote user to effectively bypass the source port UDP randomization. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and possibly integrity, because software that relies on UDP source port randomization are indirectly affected as well. (CVE-2021-20322)
Rogue backends can cause DoS of guests via high frequency events T[his CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.] Xen offers the ability to run PV backends in regular unprivileged guests, typically referred to as driver domains.
Running PV backends in driver domains has one primary security advantage: if a driver domain gets compromised, it doesn’t have the privileges to take over the system. However, a malicious driver domain could try to attack other guests via sending events at a high frequency leading to a Denial of Service in the guest due to trying to service interrupts for elongated amounts of time. There are three affected backends: * blkfront patch 1, CVE-2021-28711 * netfront patch 2, CVE-2021-28712 * hvc_xen (console) patch 3, CVE-2021-28713 (CVE-2021-28711, CVE-2021-28712, CVE-2021-28713)
Guest can force Linux netback driver to hog large amounts of kernel memory T[his CNA information record relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.] Incoming data packets for a guest in the Linux kernel’s netback driver are buffered until the guest is ready to process them. There are some measures taken for avoiding to pile up too much data, but those can be bypassed by the guest: There is a timeout how long the client side of an interface can stop consuming new packets before it is assumed to have stalled, but this timeout is rather long (60 seconds by default).
Using a UDP connection on a fast interface can easily accumulate gigabytes of data in that time.
(CVE-2021-28715) The timeout could even never trigger if the guest manages to have only one free slot in its RX queue ring page and the next package would require more than one free slot, which may be the case when using GSO, XDP, or software hashing. (CVE-2021-28714) (CVE-2021-28714, CVE-2021-28715)
A flaw was found in the Linux SCTP stack. A blind attacker may be able to kill an existing SCTP association through invalid chunks if the attacker knows the IP-addresses and port numbers being used and the attacker can send packets with spoofed IP addresses. (CVE-2021-3772)
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s implementation of RDMA over infiniband. An attacker with a privileged local account can leak kernel stack information when issuing commands to the /dev/infiniband/rdma_cm device node. While this access is unlikely to leak sensitive user information, it can be further used to defeat existing kernel protection mechanisms. (CVE-2021-3923)
A memory leak flaw in the Linux kernel’s hugetlbfs memory usage was found in the way the user maps some regions of memory twice using shmget() which are aligned to PUD alignment with the fault of some of the memory pages. A local user could use this flaw to get unauthorized access to some data. (CVE-2021-4002)
A data leak flaw was found in the way XFS_IOC_ALLOCSP IOCTL in the XFS filesystem allowed for size increase of files with unaligned size. A local attacker could use this flaw to leak data on the XFS filesystem otherwise not accessible to them. (CVE-2021-4155)
Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was in a CNA pool that was not assigned to any issues during 2023. Notes: none. (CVE-2023-0047)
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2023-1688.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(171855);
script_version("1.4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/02/07");
script_cve_id(
"CVE-2021-3772",
"CVE-2021-3923",
"CVE-2021-4002",
"CVE-2021-4155",
"CVE-2023-0047",
"CVE-2021-20322",
"CVE-2021-28711",
"CVE-2021-28712",
"CVE-2021-28713",
"CVE-2021-28714",
"CVE-2021-28715"
);
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2023-1688)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.262-135.486. It is, therefore, affected by multiple
vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1688 advisory.
- A flaw in the processing of received ICMP errors (ICMP fragment needed and ICMP redirect) in the Linux
kernel functionality was found to allow the ability to quickly scan open UDP ports. This flaw allows an
off-path remote user to effectively bypass the source port UDP randomization. The highest threat from this
vulnerability is to confidentiality and possibly integrity, because software that relies on UDP source
port randomization are indirectly affected as well. (CVE-2021-20322)
- Rogue backends can cause DoS of guests via high frequency events T[his CNA information record relates to
multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.] Xen offers the
ability to run PV backends in regular unprivileged guests, typically referred to as driver domains.
Running PV backends in driver domains has one primary security advantage: if a driver domain gets
compromised, it doesn't have the privileges to take over the system. However, a malicious driver domain
could try to attack other guests via sending events at a high frequency leading to a Denial of Service in
the guest due to trying to service interrupts for elongated amounts of time. There are three affected
backends: * blkfront patch 1, CVE-2021-28711 * netfront patch 2, CVE-2021-28712 * hvc_xen (console) patch
3, CVE-2021-28713 (CVE-2021-28711, CVE-2021-28712, CVE-2021-28713)
- Guest can force Linux netback driver to hog large amounts of kernel memory T[his CNA information record
relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.]
Incoming data packets for a guest in the Linux kernel's netback driver are buffered until the guest is
ready to process them. There are some measures taken for avoiding to pile up too much data, but those can
be bypassed by the guest: There is a timeout how long the client side of an interface can stop consuming
new packets before it is assumed to have stalled, but this timeout is rather long (60 seconds by default).
Using a UDP connection on a fast interface can easily accumulate gigabytes of data in that time.
(CVE-2021-28715) The timeout could even never trigger if the guest manages to have only one free slot in
its RX queue ring page and the next package would require more than one free slot, which may be the case
when using GSO, XDP, or software hashing. (CVE-2021-28714) (CVE-2021-28714, CVE-2021-28715)
- A flaw was found in the Linux SCTP stack. A blind attacker may be able to kill an existing SCTP
association through invalid chunks if the attacker knows the IP-addresses and port numbers being used and
the attacker can send packets with spoofed IP addresses. (CVE-2021-3772)
- A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of RDMA over infiniband. An attacker with a
privileged local account can leak kernel stack information when issuing commands to the
/dev/infiniband/rdma_cm device node. While this access is unlikely to leak sensitive user information, it
can be further used to defeat existing kernel protection mechanisms. (CVE-2021-3923)
- A memory leak flaw in the Linux kernel's hugetlbfs memory usage was found in the way the user maps some
regions of memory twice using shmget() which are aligned to PUD alignment with the fault of some of the
memory pages. A local user could use this flaw to get unauthorized access to some data. (CVE-2021-4002)
- A data leak flaw was found in the way XFS_IOC_ALLOCSP IOCTL in the XFS filesystem allowed for size
increase of files with unaligned size. A local attacker could use this flaw to leak data on the XFS
filesystem otherwise not accessible to them. (CVE-2021-4155)
- Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was in a CNA
pool that was not assigned to any issues during 2023. Notes: none. (CVE-2023-0047)
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://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2023-1688.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-3772.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-3923.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-4002.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-4155.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-0047.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-20322.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-28711.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-28712.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-28713.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-28714.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-28715.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update kernel' to update your system.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2021-3772");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss3_score_source", value:"CVE-2021-20322");
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:"2021/01/11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/02/17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/02/23");
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:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2023-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl", "kpatch.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("rpm.inc");
include("hotfixes.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var alas_release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(alas_release) || !strlen(alas_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d+|-\d+)", string:alas_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);
if (get_one_kb_item("Host/kpatch/kernel-cves"))
{
set_hotfix_type("kpatch");
var cve_list = make_list("CVE-2021-3772", "CVE-2021-3923", "CVE-2021-4002", "CVE-2021-4155", "CVE-2021-20322", "CVE-2021-28711", "CVE-2021-28712", "CVE-2021-28713", "CVE-2021-28714", "CVE-2021-28715", "CVE-2023-0047");
if (hotfix_cves_check(cve_list))
{
audit(AUDIT_PATCH_INSTALLED, "kpatch hotfix for ALAS-2023-1688");
}
else
{
__rpm_report = hotfix_reporting_text();
}
}
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'kernel-4.14.262-135.486.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-4.14.262-135.486.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-debuginfo-4.14.262-135.486.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-debuginfo-4.14.262-135.486.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-debuginfo-common-i686-4.14.262-135.486.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-4.14.262-135.486.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-devel-4.14.262-135.486.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-devel-4.14.262-135.486.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-headers-4.14.262-135.486.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-headers-4.14.262-135.486.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-tools-4.14.262-135.486.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-tools-4.14.262-135.486.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.14.262-135.486.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-tools-debuginfo-4.14.262-135.486.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-tools-devel-4.14.262-135.486.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'kernel-tools-devel-4.14.262-135.486.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'perf-4.14.262-135.486.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'perf-4.14.262-135.486.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'perf-debuginfo-4.14.262-135.486.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'perf-debuginfo-4.14.262-135.486.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', '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 = 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 && (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check))) {
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 / kernel-debuginfo / kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 / 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 |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-20322
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-28711
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-28712
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-28713
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-28714
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-28715
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3772
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3923
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-4002
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-4155
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-0047
alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2023-1688.html
alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-20322.html
alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-28711.html
alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-28712.html
alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-28713.html
alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-28714.html
alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-28715.html
alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-3772.html
alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-3923.html
alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-4002.html
alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-4155.html
alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-0047.html
alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html