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Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4041)

high Nessus Plugin ID 107052

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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-2018-4041 advisory.

 - KEYS: Remove key_type::match in favour of overriding default by match_preparse (Tim Tianyang Chen) [Orabug: 25757946] {CVE-2017-6951}
 - tcp: initialize rcv_mss to TCP_MIN_MSS instead of 0 (Wei Wang) [Orabug: 26813391] {CVE-2017-14106}
 - rxrpc: Fix several cases where a padded len isn't checked in ticket decode (David Howells) [Orabug:
 26880520] {CVE-2017-7482} {CVE-2017-7482}
 - USB: serial: console: fix use-after-free after failed setup (Johan Hovold) [Orabug: 27206839] {CVE-2017-16525}
 - ALSA: usb-audio: Check out-of-bounds access by corrupted buffer descriptor (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug:
 27206934] {CVE-2017-16529}
 - USB: fix out-of-bounds in usb_set_configuration (Greg Kroah-Hartman) [Orabug: 27207243] {CVE-2017-16531}

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-2018-4041.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 107052

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2018-4041.nasl

Version: 3.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/28/2018

Updated: 11/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2017-8824

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: 2/26/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/16/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14106, CVE-2017-16525, CVE-2017-16529, CVE-2017-16531, CVE-2017-6951, CVE-2017-7482, CVE-2017-8824