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Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2017-3658)

high Nessus Plugin ID 105145

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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-2017-3658 advisory.

 - ping: implement proper locking (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 26540288] {CVE-2017-2671}
 - mm: Tighten x86 /dev/mem with zeroing reads (Kees Cook) [Orabug: 26675934] {CVE-2017-7889}
 - more bio_map_user_iov() leak fixes (Al Viro) [Orabug: 27069045] {CVE-2017-12190}
 - fix unbalanced page refcounting in bio_map_user_iov (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [Orabug: 27069045] {CVE-2017-12190}
 - net/packet: fix overflow in check for tp_reserve (Andrey Konovalov) [Orabug: 26143563] {CVE-2017-7308}
 - net/packet: fix overflow in check for tp_frame_nr (Andrey Konovalov) [Orabug: 26143563] {CVE-2017-7308}
 - char: lp: fix possible integer overflow in lp_setup() (Willy Tarreau) [Orabug: 26403941] {CVE-2017-1000363}
 - ALSA: timer: Fix missing queue indices reset at SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_SELECT (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug:
 26403958] {CVE-2017-1000380}
 - ALSA: timer: Fix race between read and ioctl (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 26403958] {CVE-2017-1000380}
 - ALSA: timer: fix NULL pointer dereference in read()/ioctl() race (Vegard Nossum) [Orabug: 26403958] {CVE-2017-1000380}
 - ALSA: timer: Fix negative queue usage by racy accesses (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 26403958] {CVE-2017-1000380}
 - ALSA: timer: Fix race at concurrent reads (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 26403958] {CVE-2017-1000380}
 - ALSA: timer: Fix race among timer ioctls (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 26403958] {CVE-2017-1000380}
 - ipv6: xfrm: Handle errors reported by xfrm6_find_1stfragopt() (Ben Hutchings) [Orabug: 26403974] {CVE-2017-9074}
 - ipv6: Check ip6_find_1stfragopt() return value properly. (David S. Miller) [Orabug: 26403974] {CVE-2017-9074}
 - ipv6: Prevent overrun when parsing v6 header options (Craig Gallek) [Orabug: 26403974] {CVE-2017-9074}
 - ipv6/dccp: do not inherit ipv6_mc_list from parent (WANG Cong) [Orabug: 26404007] {CVE-2017-9077}
 - aio: mark AIO pseudo-fs noexec (Jann Horn) [Orabug: 26643601] {CVE-2016-10044}
 - vfs: Commit to never having exectuables on proc and sysfs. (Eric W. Biederman) [Orabug: 26643601] {CVE-2016-10044}
 - vfs, writeback: replace FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK with SB_I_CGROUPWB (Tejun Heo) [Orabug: 26643601] {CVE-2016-10044}
 - x86/acpi: Prevent out of bound access caused by broken ACPI tables (Seunghun Han) [Orabug: 26643652] {CVE-2017-11473}
 - sctp: do not inherit ipv6_{mc|ac|fl}_list from parent (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 26650889] {CVE-2017-9075}
 - saa7164: fix double fetch PCIe access condition (Steven Toth) [Orabug: 26675148] {CVE-2017-8831}
 - saa7164: fix sparse warnings (Hans Verkuil) [Orabug: 26675148] {CVE-2017-8831}
 - saa7164: get rid of warning: no previous prototype (Mauro Carvalho Chehab) [Orabug: 26675148] {CVE-2017-8831}
 - timerfd: Protect the might cancel mechanism proper (Thomas Gleixner) [Orabug: 26899791] {CVE-2017-10661}
 - scsi: scsi_transport_iscsi: fix the issue that iscsi_if_rx doesn't parse nlmsg properly (Xin Long) [Orabug: 26988628] {CVE-2017-14489}
 - mqueue: fix a use-after-free in sys_mq_notify() (Cong Wang) [Orabug: 26643562] {CVE-2017-11176}
 - ipv6: avoid overflow of offset in ip6_find_1stfragopt (Sabrina Dubroca) [Orabug: 27011278] {CVE-2017-7542}
 - packet: fix tp_reserve race in packet_set_ring (Willem de Bruijn) [Orabug: 27002453] {CVE-2017-1000111}
 - fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix bug in loading of PIE binaries (Michael Davidson) [Orabug: 26870958] {CVE-2017-1000253}
 - Bluetooth: Properly check L2CAP config option output buffer length (Ben Seri) [Orabug: 26796428] {CVE-2017-1000251}
 - xen: fix bio vec merging (Roger Pau Monne) [Orabug: 26645562] {CVE-2017-12134}
 - fs/exec.c: account for argv/envp pointers (Kees Cook) [Orabug: 26638926] {CVE-2017-1000365} {CVE-2017-1000365}
 - l2tp: fix racy SOCK_ZAPPED flag check in l2tp_ip{,6}_bind() (Guillaume Nault) [Orabug: 26586050] {CVE-2016-10200}
 - xfs: fix two memory leaks in xfs_attr_list.c error paths (Mateusz Guzik) [Orabug: 26586024] {CVE-2016-9685}
 - KEYS: Disallow keyrings beginning with '.' to be joined as session keyrings (David Howells) [Orabug:
 26586002] {CVE-2016-9604}
 - ipv6: fix out of bound writes in __ip6_append_data() (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 26578202] {CVE-2017-9242}
 - 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}
 - ipv4: try to cache dst_entries which would cause a redirect (Hannes Frederic Sowa) [Orabug: 26032377] {CVE-2015-1465}
 - mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas (Hugh Dickins) [Orabug: 26326145] {CVE-2017-1000364}
 - nfsd: check for oversized NFSv2/v3 arguments (J. Bruce Fields) [Orabug: 26366024] {CVE-2017-7645}

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-2017-3658.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 105145

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-3658.nasl

Version: 3.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/11/2017

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: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7889

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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:P/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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/8/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/4/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12190, CVE-2017-2671, CVE-2017-7889