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Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4145)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 110585

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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-2018-4145 advisory.

 - x86/fpu: Make eager FPU default (Mihai Carabas) [Orabug: 28156175] {CVE-2018-3665}
 - ALSA: hrtimer: Fix stall by hrtimer_cancel() (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 22876528] {CVE-2016-2549}
 - ALSA: timer: Harden slave timer list handling (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 22876528] {CVE-2016-2547} {CVE-2016-2548}
 - ALSA: timer: Fix double unlink of active_list (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 22876528] {CVE-2016-2545}
 - ALSA: seq: Fix missing NULL check at remove_events ioctl (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 22876528] {CVE-2016-2543}
 - ALSA: seq: Fix race at timer setup and close (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 22876528] {CVE-2016-2544}
 - ALSA: usb-audio: avoid freeing umidi object twice (Andrey Konovalov) [Orabug: 22876528] {CVE-2016-2384}
 - perf/hwbp: Simplify the perf-hwbp code, fix documentation (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 27947612] {CVE-2018-1000199}

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-2018-4145.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 110585

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2018-4145.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/18/2018

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-3665

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/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: 6/15/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/14/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2384, CVE-2016-2543, CVE-2016-2544, CVE-2016-2545, CVE-2016-2547, CVE-2016-2548, CVE-2016-2549, CVE-2018-1000199, CVE-2018-3665

IAVA: 2018-A-0196-S