7.2 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
0.002 Low
EPSS
Percentile
54.9%
To see the complete list of bug fixes, users are directed to the related Knowledge Article :
Security Fixes :
A flaw was found in the way certain interfaces of the Linux kernel’s Infiniband subsystem used write() as bi-directional ioctl() replacement, which could lead to insufficient memory security checks when being invoked using the splice() system call. A local unprivileged user on a system with either Infiniband hardware present or RDMA Userspace Connection Manager Access module explicitly loaded, could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2016-4565, Important)
A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel’s SCTP implementation handled sctp_accept() during the processing of heartbeat timeout events. A remote attacker could use this flaw to prevent further connections to be accepted by the SCTP server running on the system, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2015-8767, Moderate)
Bug Fixes :
When Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) devices were removed or deleted, a system crash could occur due to a race condition between listing all SCSI devices and SCSI device removal. The provided patch ensures that the starting node for the klist_iter_init_node() function is actually a member of the list before using it. As a result, a system crash no longer occurs in the described scenario.
This update offers a reworked series of patches for the resizable hash table (rhashtable) including a number of backported bug fixes and enhancements from upstream.
Previously, the same value of the mperf Model-Specific Register (MSR) read twice in a row could lead to a kernel panic due to the divide-by-zero error. The provided patch fixes this bug, and the kernel now handles two identical values of mperf gracefully.
When a transparent proxy application was running and the number of established connections on the computer exceeded one million, unrelated processes, such as curl or ssh, were unable to bind to a local IP on the box to initiate a connection. The provided patch fixes the cooperation of the REUSEADDR/NOREUSEADDR socket option, and thus prevents the local port from being exhausted.
As a result, the aforementioned bug no longer occurs in the described scenario.
Previously, the kernel support for non-local bind for the IPv6 protocol was incomplete. As a consequence, an attempt to bind a socket to an IPv6 address that is not assigned to the host could fail. The provided patch includes changes in the ip_nonlocal_bind variable, which is now set to allow binding to an IPv6 address that is not assigned to the host. As a result, Linux servers are now able to bind to non-local IPv6 addresses as expected.
On some servers with a faster CPU, USB initialization could previously lead to a kernel hang during boot. If this inconvenience occurred when booting the second kernel during the kdump operation, the kdump service failed and the vmcore was lost. The provided upstream patch fixes this bug, and the kernel no longer hangs after USB initialization.
Previously, when running iperf servers using the mlx4_en module, a kernel panic occurred. The underlying source code has been fixed, and the kernel panic no longer occurs in the described scenario.
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# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
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script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8767", "CVE-2016-4565");
script_name(english:"Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20160623)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:
"The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security
updates."
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script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"To see the complete list of bug fixes, users are directed to the
related Knowledge Article :
Security Fixes :
- A flaw was found in the way certain interfaces of the
Linux kernel's Infiniband subsystem used write() as
bi-directional ioctl() replacement, which could lead to
insufficient memory security checks when being invoked
using the splice() system call. A local unprivileged
user on a system with either Infiniband hardware present
or RDMA Userspace Connection Manager Access module
explicitly loaded, could use this flaw to escalate their
privileges on the system. (CVE-2016-4565, Important)
- A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux
kernel's SCTP implementation handled sctp_accept()
during the processing of heartbeat timeout events. A
remote attacker could use this flaw to prevent further
connections to be accepted by the SCTP server running on
the system, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2015-8767, Moderate)
Bug Fixes :
- When Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) devices were
removed or deleted, a system crash could occur due to a
race condition between listing all SCSI devices and SCSI
device removal. The provided patch ensures that the
starting node for the klist_iter_init_node() function is
actually a member of the list before using it. As a
result, a system crash no longer occurs in the described
scenario.
- This update offers a reworked series of patches for the
resizable hash table (rhashtable) including a number of
backported bug fixes and enhancements from upstream.
- Previously, the same value of the mperf Model-Specific
Register (MSR) read twice in a row could lead to a
kernel panic due to the divide-by-zero error. The
provided patch fixes this bug, and the kernel now
handles two identical values of mperf gracefully.
- When a transparent proxy application was running and the
number of established connections on the computer
exceeded one million, unrelated processes, such as curl
or ssh, were unable to bind to a local IP on the box to
initiate a connection. The provided patch fixes the
cooperation of the REUSEADDR/NOREUSEADDR socket option,
and thus prevents the local port from being exhausted.
As a result, the aforementioned bug no longer occurs in
the described scenario.
- Previously, the kernel support for non-local bind for
the IPv6 protocol was incomplete. As a consequence, an
attempt to bind a socket to an IPv6 address that is not
assigned to the host could fail. The provided patch
includes changes in the ip_nonlocal_bind variable, which
is now set to allow binding to an IPv6 address that is
not assigned to the host. As a result, Linux servers are
now able to bind to non-local IPv6 addresses as
expected.
- On some servers with a faster CPU, USB initialization
could previously lead to a kernel hang during boot. If
this inconvenience occurred when booting the second
kernel during the kdump operation, the kdump service
failed and the vmcore was lost. The provided upstream
patch fixes this bug, and the kernel no longer hangs
after USB initialization.
- Previously, when running iperf servers using the mlx4_en
module, a kernel panic occurred. The underlying source
code has been fixed, and the kernel panic no longer
occurs in the described scenario."
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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_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-abi-whitelists");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-debug");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-debug-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-debug-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-headers");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-tools");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-tools-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-tools-libs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-tools-libs-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:perf");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:perf-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:python-perf");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:python-perf-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"x-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/02/08");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/06/23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/06/27");
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script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Scientific Linux Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("rpm.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) || "Scientific Linux " >!< release) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "running Scientific Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Scientific Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Scientific Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^7([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Scientific Linux 7.x", "Scientific Linux " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu >!< "x86_64" && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Scientific Linux", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-3.10.0-327.22.2.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL7", reference:"kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-327.22.2.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-debug-3.10.0-327.22.2.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-debug-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.22.2.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-327.22.2.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.22.2.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-3.10.0-327.22.2.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-devel-3.10.0-327.22.2.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL7", reference:"kernel-doc-3.10.0-327.22.2.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-headers-3.10.0-327.22.2.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-tools-3.10.0-327.22.2.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-tools-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.22.2.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-327.22.2.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-327.22.2.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"perf-3.10.0-327.22.2.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.22.2.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"python-perf-3.10.0-327.22.2.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"python-perf-debuginfo-3.10.0-327.22.2.el7")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "kernel / kernel-abi-whitelists / kernel-debug / etc");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
fermilab | scientific_linux | kernel | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel |
fermilab | scientific_linux | kernel-abi-whitelists | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-abi-whitelists |
fermilab | scientific_linux | kernel-debug | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-debug |
fermilab | scientific_linux | kernel-debug-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-debug-debuginfo |
fermilab | scientific_linux | kernel-debug-devel | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-debug-devel |
fermilab | scientific_linux | kernel-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-debuginfo |
fermilab | scientific_linux | kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 |
fermilab | scientific_linux | kernel-devel | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-devel |
fermilab | scientific_linux | kernel-doc | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-doc |
fermilab | scientific_linux | kernel-headers | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:kernel-headers |
7.2 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
0.002 Low
EPSS
Percentile
54.9%