The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2021:4356 advisory.

  - kernel: Intel graphics card information leak. (CVE-2019-14615)

  - kernel: out-of-bounds reads in pinctrl subsystem. (CVE-2020-0427)

  - kernel: Improper input validation in some Intel(R) Ethernet E810 Adapter drivers (CVE-2020-24502)

  - kernel: Insufficient access control in some Intel(R) Ethernet E810 Adapter drivers (CVE-2020-24503)

  - kernel: Uncontrolled resource consumption in some Intel(R) Ethernet E810 Adapter drivers (CVE-2020-24504)

  - kernel: Fragmentation cache not cleared on reconnection (CVE-2020-24586)

  - kernel: Reassembling fragments encrypted under different keys (CVE-2020-24587)

  - kernel: wifi frame payload being parsed incorrectly as an L2 frame (CVE-2020-24588)

  - kernel: Forwarding EAPOL from unauthenticated wifi client (CVE-2020-26139)

  - kernel: accepting plaintext data frames in protected networks (CVE-2020-26140)

  - kernel: not verifying TKIP MIC of fragmented frames (CVE-2020-26141)

  - kernel: accepting fragmented plaintext frames in protected networks (CVE-2020-26143)

  - kernel: accepting unencrypted A-MSDU frames that start with RFC1042 header (CVE-2020-26144)

  - kernel: accepting plaintext broadcast fragments as full frames (CVE-2020-26145)

  - kernel: reassembling encrypted fragments with non-consecutive packet numbers (CVE-2020-26146)

  - kernel: reassembling mixed encrypted/plaintext fragments (CVE-2020-26147)

  - kernel: powerpc: RTAS calls can be used to compromise kernel integrity (CVE-2020-27777)

  - kernel: the copy-on-write implementation can grant unintended write access because of a race condition in     a THP mapcount check (CVE-2020-29368)

  - kernel: locking inconsistency in drivers/tty/tty_io.c and drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c can lead to a read-     after-free (CVE-2020-29660)

  - kernel: buffer overflow in mwifiex_cmd_802_11_ad_hoc_start function in     drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/join.c via a long SSID value (CVE-2020-36158)

  - kernel: memory leak upon a kmalloc failure in kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev function in virt/kvm/kvm_main.c     (CVE-2020-36312)

  - kernel: slab out-of-bounds read in hci_extended_inquiry_result_evt() in net/bluetooth/hci_event.c     (CVE-2020-36386)

  - kernel: Improper access control in BlueZ may allow information disclosure vulnerability. (CVE-2021-0129)

  - kernel: heap overflow in __cgroup_bpf_run_filter_getsockopt() (CVE-2021-20194)

  - kernel: setsockopt System Call Untrusted Pointer Dereference Information Disclosure (CVE-2021-20239)

  - kernel: Race condition in sctp_destroy_sock list_del (CVE-2021-23133)

  - kernel: fuse: stall on CPU can occur because a retry loop continually finds the same bad inode     (CVE-2021-28950)

  - kernel: System crash in intel_pmu_drain_pebs_nhm in arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c (CVE-2021-28971)

  - kernel: protection for sequences of pointer arithmetic operations against speculatively out-of-bounds     loads can be bypassed to leak content of kernel memory (CVE-2021-29155)

  - kernel: improper input validation in tipc_nl_retrieve_key function in net/tipc/node.c (CVE-2021-29646)

  - kernel: lack a full memory barrier upon the assignment of a new table value in net/netfilter/x_tables.c     and include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h may lead to DoS (CVE-2021-29650)

  - kernel: local escalation of privileges in handling of eBPF programs (CVE-2021-31440)

  - kernel: protection of stack pointer against speculative pointer arithmetic can be bypassed to leak content     of kernel memory (CVE-2021-31829)

  - kernel: out of bounds array access in drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c (CVE-2021-31916)

  - kernel: use-after-free in cipso_v4_genopt in net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c (CVE-2021-33033)

  - kernel: out-of-bounds reads and writes due to enforcing incorrect limits for pointer arithmetic operations     by BPF verifier (CVE-2021-33200)

  - kernel: Use-after-free in ndb_queue_rq() in drivers/block/nbd.c (CVE-2021-3348)

  - kernel: Linux kernel eBPF RINGBUF map oversized allocation (CVE-2021-3489)

  - kernel: double free in bluetooth subsystem when the HCI device initialization fails (CVE-2021-3564)

  - kernel: use-after-free in function hci_sock_bound_ioctl() (CVE-2021-3573)

  - kernel: eBPF 32-bit source register truncation on div/mod (CVE-2021-3600)

  - kernel: flowtable list del corruption with kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:50 (CVE-2021-3635)

  - kernel: NULL pointer dereference in llsec_key_alloc() in net/mac802154/llsec.c (CVE-2021-3659)

  - kernel: DoS in rb_per_cpu_empty() (CVE-2021-3679)

  - kernel: overlayfs: Mounting overlayfs inside an unprivileged user namespace can reveal files     (CVE-2021-3732)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed :

CVE-2020-28374: Fixed a Linux SCSI target issue (bsc#1178372).

CVE-2020-36158: Fixed a potential remote code execution in the Marvell mwifiex driver (bsc#1180559).

CVE-2020-27825: Fixed a race in the trace_open and buffer resize calls (bsc#1179960).

CVE-2020-0466: Fixed a use-after-free due to a logic error in do_epoll_ctl and ep_loop_check_proc of eventpoll.c (bnc#1180031).

CVE-2020-27068: Fixed an out-of-bounds read due to a missing bounds check in the nl80211_policy policy of nl80211.c (bnc#1180086).

CVE-2020-0444: Fixed a bad kfree due to a logic error in audit_data_to_entry (bnc#1180027).

CVE-2020-0465: Fixed multiple missing bounds checks in hid-multitouch.c that could have led to local privilege escalation (bnc#1180029).

CVE-2020-29661: Fixed a locking issue in the tty subsystem that allowed a use-after-free attack against TIOCSPGRP (bsc#1179745).

CVE-2020-29660: Fixed a locking inconsistency in the tty subsystem that may have allowed a read-after-free attack against TIOCGSID (bnc#1179745).

CVE-2020-27777: Fixed a privilege escalation in the Run-Time Abstraction Services (RTAS) interface, affecting guests running on top of PowerVM or KVM hypervisors (bnc#1179107).

CVE-2020-29373: Fixed an unsafe handling of the root directory during path lookups in fs/io_uring.c (bnc#1179434).

CVE-2020-11668: Fixed the mishandling of invalid descriptors in the Xirlink camera USB driver (bnc#1168952).

CVE-2020-27830: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference in speakup (bsc#1179656).

CVE-2020-29370: Fixed a race condition in kmem_cache_alloc_bulk (bnc#1179435).

CVE-2020-27786: Fixed a use after free in kernel midi subsystem snd_rawmidi_kernel_read1() (bsc#1179601).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed :

CVE-2021-3348: Fixed a use-after-free in nbd_add_socket() that could be triggered by local attackers (with access to the nbd device) via an I/O request (bnc#1181504).

CVE-2021-3347: A use-after-free was discovered in the PI futexes during fault handling, allowing local users to execute code in the kernel (bnc#1181349).

CVE-2020-27835: A use-after-free in the infiniband hfi1 driver was found, specifically in the way user calls Ioctl after open dev file and fork. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system (bnc#1179878).

CVE-2020-25211: Fixed a buffer overflow in ctnetlink_parse_tuple_filter() which could be triggered by a local attackers by injecting conntrack netlink configuration (bnc#1176395).

CVE-2020-25639: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference via nouveau ioctl (bnc#1176846).

CVE-2020-29569: Fixed a potential privilege escalation and information leaks related to the PV block backend, as used by Xen (bnc#1179509).

CVE-2020-29568: Fixed a denial of service issue, related to processing watch events (bnc#1179508).

CVE-2020-0444: Fixed a bad kfree due to a logic error in audit_data_to_entry (bnc#1180027).

CVE-2020-0465: Fixed multiple missing bounds checks in hid-multitouch.c that could have led to local privilege escalation (bnc#1180029).

CVE-2020-0466: Fixed a use-after-free due to a logic error in do_epoll_ctl and ep_loop_check_proc of eventpoll.c (bnc#1180031).

CVE-2020-4788: Fixed an issue with IBM Power9 processors could have allowed a local user to obtain sensitive information from the data in the L1 cache under extenuating circumstances (bsc#1177666).

CVE-2020-15436: Fixed a use after free vulnerability in fs/block_dev.c which could have allowed local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (bsc#1179141).

CVE-2020-27068: Fixed an out-of-bounds read due to a missing bounds check in the nl80211_policy policy of nl80211.c (bnc#1180086).

CVE-2020-27777: Fixed a privilege escalation in the Run-Time Abstraction Services (RTAS) interface, affecting guests running on top of PowerVM or KVM hypervisors (bnc#1179107).

CVE-2020-27786: Fixed an out-of-bounds write in the MIDI implementation (bnc#1179601).

CVE-2020-27825: Fixed a race in the trace_open and buffer resize calls (bsc#1179960).

CVE-2020-29371: Fixed uninitialized memory leaks to userspace (bsc#1179429).

CVE-2020-29660: Fixed a locking inconsistency in the tty subsystem that may have allowed a read-after-free attack against TIOCGSID (bnc#1179745).

CVE-2020-29661: Fixed a locking issue in the tty subsystem that allowed a use-after-free attack against TIOCSPGRP (bsc#1179745).

CVE-2020-28974: Fixed a slab-out-of-bounds read in fbcon which could have been used by local attackers to read privileged information or potentially crash the kernel (bsc#1178589).

CVE-2020-28915: Fixed a buffer over-read in the fbcon code which could have been used by local attackers to read kernel memory (bsc#1178886).

CVE-2020-25669: Fixed a use-after-free read in sunkbd_reinit() (bsc#1178182).

CVE-2020-15437: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference which could have allowed local users to cause a denial of service(bsc#1179140).

CVE-2020-36158: Fixed a potential remote code execution in the Marvell mwifiex driver (bsc#1180559).

CVE-2020-28374: Fixed a Linux SCSI target issue (bsc#1178372).

CVE-2019-20934: Fixed a use-after-free in show_numa_stats() because NUMA fault statistics were inappropriately freed (bsc#1179663).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
155145	CentOS 8 : kernel (CESA-2021:4356)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	11/11/2021	1/16/2024	high
145025	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2021:0117-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	1/15/2021	2/9/2023	critical
145287	openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2021-75)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	1/25/2021	2/9/2023	critical
146470	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2021:0434-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	2/12/2021	2/9/2023	critical

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