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Oracle Linux 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4304)

high Nessus Plugin ID 119638

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-4304 advisory.

 - RDS: null pointer dereference in rds_atomic_free_op (Mohamed Ghannam) [Orabug: 28020694] {CVE-2018-5333}
 - wil6210: missing length check in wmi_set_ie (Lior David) [Orabug: 28951267] {CVE-2018-5848}
 - floppy: Do not copy a kernel pointer to user memory in FDGETPRM ioctl (Andy Whitcroft) [Orabug:
 28956546] {CVE-2018-7755} {CVE-2018-7755}
 - xfs: enhance dinode verifier (Eric Sandeen) [Orabug: 28943579] {CVE-2018-10322}
 - xfs: move inode fork verifiers to xfs_dinode_verify (Darrick J. Wong) [Orabug: 28943579] {CVE-2018-10322}
 - cdrom: fix improper type cast, which can leat to information leak. (Young_X) [Orabug: 28929755] {CVE-2018-16658} {CVE-2018-10940} {CVE-2018-18710}
 - bpf: 32-bit RSH verification must truncate input before the ALU op (Jann Horn) [Orabug: 28861785] {CVE-2018-18445}
 - scsi: sg: allocate with __GFP_ZERO in sg_build_indirect() (Alexander Potapenko) [Orabug: 28884433] {CVE-2018-1000204}
 - random: fix crng_ready() test (Theodore Ts'o) [Orabug: 28863713] {CVE-2018-1108} {CVE-2018-1108}
 - proc: do not access cmdline nor environ from file-backed areas (Willy Tarreau) [Orabug: 28863722] {CVE-2018-1120} {CVE-2018-1120}
 - vhost: correctly check the iova range when waking virtqueue (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 28892623] {CVE-2018-1118}
 - xfs: don't call xfs_da_shrink_inode with NULL bp (Eric Sandeen) [Orabug: 28893785] {CVE-2018-13094}
 - ALSA: rawmidi: Change resized buffers atomically (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 28893798] {CVE-2018-10902}

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-2018-4304.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 119638

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2018-4304.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/13/2018

Updated: 11/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-5848

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-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-tools-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python-perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug

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: 12/11/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/11/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10322, CVE-2018-18710, CVE-2018-5848, CVE-2018-7755, CVE-2018-8043