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Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2017-3595)

high Nessus Plugin ID 102059

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-3595 advisory.

 - ALSA: timer: Fix missing queue indices reset at SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_SELECT (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug:
 26403952] {CVE-2017-1000380}
 - ALSA: timer: Fix race between read and ioctl (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 26403952] {CVE-2017-1000380}
 - char: lp: fix possible integer overflow in lp_setup() (Willy Tarreau) [Orabug: 26403937] {CVE-2017-1000363}
 - NFSv4: Fix callback server shutdown (Trond Myklebust) [Orabug: 26403977] {CVE-2017-9059}
 - SUNRPC: Refactor svc_set_num_threads() (Trond Myklebust) [Orabug: 26403977] {CVE-2017-9059}
 - ipv6/dccp: do not inherit ipv6_mc_list from parent (WANG Cong) [Orabug: 26404000] {CVE-2017-9077}
 - macsec: dynamically allocate space for sglist (Jason A. Donenfeld) [Orabug: 26051882] {CVE-2017-7477}
 - macsec: avoid heap overflow in skb_to_sgvec (Jason A. Donenfeld) [Orabug: 26051882] {CVE-2017-7477}
 - nfsd: check for oversized NFSv2/v3 arguments (J. Bruce Fields) [Orabug: 26366009] {CVE-2017-7645}
 - mm: fix new crash in unmapped_area_topdown() (Hugh Dickins) [Orabug: 26337733] {CVE-2017-1000364}
 - mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas (Hugh Dickins) [Orabug: 26337733] {CVE-2017-1000364}
 - net/packet: fix overflow in check for tp_reserve (Andrey Konovalov) [Orabug: 26170622] {CVE-2017-7308}
 - net/packet: fix overflow in check for tp_frame_nr (Andrey Konovalov) [Orabug: 26170622] {CVE-2017-7308}
 - net/packet: fix overflow in check for priv area size (Andrey Konovalov) [Orabug: 26170622] {CVE-2017-7308}
 - dccp/tcp: do not inherit mc_list from parent (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 26108560] {CVE-2017-8890}
 - HID: hid-cypress: validate length of report (Greg Kroah-Hartman) [Orabug: 25891893] {CVE-2017-7273}
 - nfsd: stricter decoding of write-like NFSv2/v3 ops (J. Bruce Fields) [Orabug: 25986971] {CVE-2017-7895}

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues 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-2017-3595.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 102059

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-3595.nasl

Version: 3.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/31/2017

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-9077

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dtrace-modules-4.1.12-94.5.7.el7uek, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-devel, 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:dtrace-modules-4.1.12-94.5.7.el6uek, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-firmware, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/27/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000363, CVE-2017-1000380, CVE-2017-7273, CVE-2017-9077