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Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2017-3590)

high Nessus Plugin ID 101193

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2017-3590 advisory.

 - nfsd: check for oversized NFSv2/v3 arguments (J. Bruce Fields) [Orabug: 26366022] {CVE-2017-7645}
 - HID: hid-cypress: validate length of report (Greg Kroah-Hartman) [Orabug: 25891907] {CVE-2017-7273}
 - udf: Remove repeated loads blocksize (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 25905721] {CVE-2015-4167}
 - udf: Check length of extended attributes and allocation descriptors (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 25905721] {CVE-2015-4167}
 - udf: Verify i_size when loading inode (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 25905721] {CVE-2015-4167}
 - btrfs: drop unused parameter from btrfs_item_nr (Ross Kirk) [Orabug: 25948098] {CVE-2014-9710}
 - Btrfs: cleanup of function where fixup_low_keys() is called (Tsutomu Itoh) [Orabug: 25948098] {CVE-2014-9710}
 - Btrfs: remove unused argument of fixup_low_keys() (Tsutomu Itoh) [Orabug: 25948098] {CVE-2014-9710}
 - Btrfs: remove unused argument of btrfs_extend_item() (Tsutomu Itoh) [Orabug: 25948098] {CVE-2014-9710}
 - Btrfs: add support for asserts (Josef Bacik) [Orabug: 25948098] {CVE-2014-9710}
 - Btrfs: make xattr replace operations atomic (Filipe Manana) [Orabug: 25948098] {CVE-2014-9710}
 - net: validate the range we feed to iov_iter_init() in sys_sendto/sys_recvfrom (Al Viro) [Orabug:
 25948145] {CVE-2015-2686}
 - ipv4: try to cache dst_entries which would cause a redirect (Hannes Frederic Sowa) [Orabug: 26032372] {CVE-2015-1465}
 - net/packet: fix overflow in check for tp_reserve (Andrey Konovalov) [Orabug: 26143552] {CVE-2017-7308}
 - net/packet: fix overflow in check for tp_frame_nr (Andrey Konovalov) [Orabug: 26143552] {CVE-2017-7308}
 - net/packet: fix overflow in check for priv area size (Andrey Konovalov) [Orabug: 26143552] {CVE-2017-7308}
 - dccp/tcp: do not inherit mc_list from parent (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 26108571] {CVE-2017-8890}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2017-3590.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101193

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-3590.nasl

Version: 3.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/3/2017

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7645

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.19.2.el7uek, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-doc, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-firmware, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.19.2.el6uek

Required KB Items: Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/30/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7645