Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information Affecting kernel-rt package, versions <0:3.10.0-1160.21.1.rt56.1158.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.28% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-KERNELRT-7972473
  • published 14 Sep 2024
  • disclosed 16 Sep 2020

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 kernel-rt to version 0:3.10.0-1160.21.1.rt56.1158.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2021:0857.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt package and not the kernel-rt package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in versions before 5.9-rc7. Traffic between two Geneve endpoints may be unencrypted when IPsec is configured to encrypt traffic for the specific UDP port used by the GENEVE tunnel allowing anyone between the two endpoints to read the traffic unencrypted. The main threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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Red Hat

7.5 high
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SUSE

7.5 high