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Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2017-3597)

high Nessus Plugin ID 102061

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-3597 advisory.

 - HID: hid-cypress: validate length of report (Greg Kroah-Hartman) [Orabug: 25891914] {CVE-2017-7273}
 - udf: Remove repeated loads blocksize (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 25905722] {CVE-2015-4167}
 - udf: Check length of extended attributes and allocation descriptors (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 25905722] {CVE-2015-4167}
 - udf: Verify i_size when loading inode (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 25905722] {CVE-2015-4167}
 - btrfs: drop unused parameter from btrfs_item_nr (Ross Kirk) [Orabug: 25948102] {CVE-2014-9710}
 - Btrfs: cleanup of function where fixup_low_keys() is called (Tsutomu Itoh) [Orabug: 25948102] {CVE-2014-9710}
 - Btrfs: remove unused argument of fixup_low_keys() (Tsutomu Itoh) [Orabug: 25948102] {CVE-2014-9710}
 - Btrfs: remove unused argument of btrfs_extend_item() (Tsutomu Itoh) [Orabug: 25948102] {CVE-2014-9710}
 - Btrfs: add support for asserts (Josef Bacik) [Orabug: 25948102] {CVE-2014-9710}
 - Btrfs: make xattr replace operations atomic (Filipe Manana) [Orabug: 25948102] {CVE-2014-9710}
 - net: validate the range we feed to iov_iter_init() in sys_sendto/sys_recvfrom (Al Viro) [Orabug:
 25948149] {CVE-2015-2686}

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-2017-3597.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 102061

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-3597.nasl

Version: 3.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/31/2017

Updated: 11/1/2024

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-2015-2686

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: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-devel, 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: 2/2/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9710, CVE-2015-1465, CVE-2015-2686, CVE-2015-4167, CVE-2017-7273