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Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4161)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 110997

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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-2018-4161 advisory.

 - dccp: check sk for closed state in dccp_sendmsg() (Alexey Kodanev) [Orabug: 28001529] {CVE-2017-8824} {CVE-2018-1130}
 - xfrm: policy: check policy direction value (Vladis Dronov) [Orabug: 28256487] {CVE-2017-11600} {CVE-2017-11600}
 - mm/mempolicy.c: fix error handling in set_mempolicy and mbind. (Chris Salls) [Orabug: 28242475] {CVE-2017-7616}
 - kernel/signal.c: avoid undefined behaviour in kill_something_info When running kill(72057458746458112, 0) in userspace I hit the following issue. (mridula shastry) [Orabug: 28078687] {CVE-2018-10124}
 - sctp: verify size of a new chunk in _sctp_make_chunk() (Alexey Kodanev) [Orabug: 28240074] {CVE-2018-5803}
 - netfilter: xt_TCPMSS: add more sanity tests on tcph->doff (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 27896802] {CVE-2017-18017}
 - kernel/exit.c: avoid undefined behaviour when calling wait4() wait4(-2147483648, 0x20, 0, 0xdd0000) triggers: UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in kernel/exit.c:1651:9 (mridula shastry) [Orabug: 28049778] {CVE-2018-10087}

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-2018-4161.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 110997

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2018-4161.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/11/2018

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-18017

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

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: 7/10/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/10/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-11600, CVE-2017-18017, CVE-2017-7616, CVE-2018-10087, CVE-2018-10124, CVE-2018-1130, CVE-2018-5803