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Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2019-4510)

high Nessus Plugin ID 121202

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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-2019-4510 advisory.

 - ALSA: usb-audio: Fix UAF decrement if card has no live interfaces in card.c (Hui Peng) [Orabug:
 29042981] {CVE-2018-19824}
 - ALSA: usb-audio: Replace probing flag with active refcount (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 29042981] {CVE-2018-19824}
 - ALSA: usb-audio: Avoid nested autoresume calls (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 29042981] {CVE-2018-19824}
 - ext4: validate that metadata blocks do not overlap superblock (Theodore Ts'o) [Orabug: 29114440] {CVE-2018-1094}
 - ext4: update inline int ext4_has_metadata_csum(struct super_block *sb) (John Donnelly) [Orabug:
 29114440] {CVE-2018-1094}
 - ext4: always initialize the crc32c checksum driver (Theodore Ts'o) [Orabug: 29114440] {CVE-2018-1094} {CVE-2018-1094}

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-2019-4510.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 121202

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2019-4510.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/16/2019

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: 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-2018-19824

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, 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/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/15/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/2/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1094, CVE-2018-19824