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Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4164)

high Nessus Plugin ID 110998

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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-2018-4164 advisory.

 - dm: fix race between dm_get_from_kobject() and __dm_destroy() (Hou Tao) {CVE-2017-18203}
 - drm: udl: Properly check framebuffer mmap offsets (Greg Kroah-Hartman) [Orabug: 27986407] {CVE-2018-8781}
 - 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: 27875488] {CVE-2018-10087}
 - kernel/signal.c: avoid undefined behaviour in kill_something_info When running kill(72057458746458112, 0) in userspace I hit the following issue. (mridula shastry) {CVE-2018-10124}
 - bluetooth: Validate socket address length in sco_sock_bind(). (mlevatic) [Orabug: 28130293] {CVE-2015-8575}
 - dccp: check sk for closed state in dccp_sendmsg() (Alexey Kodanev) [Orabug: 28220402] {CVE-2017-8824} {CVE-2018-1130}
 - sctp: verify size of a new chunk in _sctp_make_chunk() (Alexey Kodanev) [Orabug: 28240075] {CVE-2018-5803}
 - mm/mempolicy.c: fix error handling in set_mempolicy and mbind. (Chris Salls) [Orabug: 28242478] {CVE-2017-7616}
 - xfrm: policy: check policy direction value (Vladis Dronov) [Orabug: 28264121] {CVE-2017-11600} {CVE-2017-11600}
 - x86/fpu: Make eager FPU default (Mihai Carabas) [Orabug: 28156176] {CVE-2018-3665}
 - KVM: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in write_mmio (Wanpeng Li) [Orabug: 27951287] {CVE-2017-17741} {CVE-2017-17741}
 - xfs: set format back to extents if xfs_bmap_extents_to_btree (Eric Sandeen) [Orabug: 27989498] {CVE-2018-10323}
 - Bluetooth: Prevent stack info leak from the EFS element. (Ben Seri) [Orabug: 28030520] {CVE-2017-1000410} {CVE-2017-1000410}
 - ALSA: hrtimer: Fix stall by hrtimer_cancel() (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 28058229] {CVE-2016-2549}
 - ALSA: timer: Harden slave timer list handling (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 28058229] {CVE-2016-2547} {CVE-2016-2548}
 - ALSA: timer: Fix double unlink of active_list (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 28058229] {CVE-2016-2545}
 - ALSA: seq: Fix missing NULL check at remove_events ioctl (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 28058229] {CVE-2016-2543}
 - ALSA: seq: Fix race at timer setup and close (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 28058229] {CVE-2016-2544}
 - ALSA: usb-audio: avoid freeing umidi object twice (Andrey Konovalov) [Orabug: 28058229] {CVE-2016-2384}
 - perf/hwbp: Simplify the perf-hwbp code, fix documentation (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 27947608] {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-2018-4164.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 110998

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2018-4164.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/11/2018

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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-2018-8781

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: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.22.1.el7uek, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.22.1.el6uek, 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/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/10/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/16/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8575, CVE-2017-11600, CVE-2017-18203, CVE-2017-7616, CVE-2018-10087, CVE-2018-10124, CVE-2018-1130, CVE-2018-5803, CVE-2018-8781