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Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2017-3651)

high Nessus Plugin ID 105143

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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-2017-3651 advisory.

 - mm, thp: Do not make page table dirty unconditionally in follow_trans_huge_pmd() (Kirill A. Shutemov) [Orabug: 27200879] {CVE-2017-1000405}
 - fix unbalanced page refcounting in bio_map_user_iov (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [Orabug: 27069038] {CVE-2017-12190}
 - more bio_map_user_iov() leak fixes (Al Viro) [Orabug: 27069038] {CVE-2017-12190}
 - packet: in packet_do_bind, test fanout with bind_lock held (Willem de Bruijn) [Orabug: 27069065] {CVE-2017-15649}
 - packet: hold bind lock when rebinding to fanout hook (Willem de Bruijn) [Orabug: 27069065] {CVE-2017-15649}
 - net: convert packet_fanout.sk_ref from atomic_t to refcount_t (Reshetova, Elena) [Orabug: 27069065] {CVE-2017-15649}
 - packet: fix races in fanout_add() (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 27069065] {CVE-2017-15649}
 - refcount_t: Introduce a special purpose refcount type (Peter Zijlstra) [Orabug: 27069065] {CVE-2017-15649}
 - locking/atomics: Add _{acquire|release|relaxed}() variants of some atomic operations (Will Deacon) [Orabug: 27069065] {CVE-2017-15649}
 - net: qmi_wwan: fix divide by 0 on bad descriptors (Bjorn Mork) [Orabug: 27215225] {CVE-2017-16650}
 - ALSA: usb-audio: Kill stray URB at exiting (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 27148276] {CVE-2017-16527}
 - selinux: fix off-by-one in setprocattr (Stephen Smalley) [Orabug: 27001717] {CVE-2017-2618} {CVE-2017-2618} {CVE-2017-2618}
 - sysctl: Drop reference added by grab_header in proc_sys_readdir (Zhou Chengming) [Orabug: 27036903] {CVE-2016-9191} {CVE-2016-9191} {CVE-2016-9191}
 - KEYS: prevent KEYCTL_READ on negative key (Eric Biggers) [Orabug: 27050248] {CVE-2017-12192}

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-2017-3651.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 105143

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-3651.nasl

Version: 3.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/11/2017

Updated: 10/23/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16650

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

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:H/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-15649

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, 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, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/7/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/21/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000405, CVE-2017-12190, CVE-2017-15649, CVE-2017-16527, CVE-2017-16650