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Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2019-3055)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 130039

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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-2019-3055 advisory.

 - [vhost] vhost: make sure log_num < in_num (Eugenio Perez) [1750879 1750880] {CVE-2019-14835}
 - [net] Bluetooth: Fix faulty expression for minimum encryption key size check (Gopal Tiwari) [1743084 1743085] {CVE-2019-9506}
 - [net] Bluetooth: Fix regression with minimum encryption key size alignment (Gopal Tiwari) [1743084 1743085] {CVE-2019-9506}
 - [net] Bluetooth: Align minimum encryption key size for LE and BR/EDR connections (Gopal Tiwari) [1743084 1743085] {CVE-2019-9506}
 - [wireless] mwifiex: Fix heap overflow in mwifiex_uap_parse_tail_ies() (Stanislaw Gruszka) [1714469 1721742 1714470 1721743] {CVE-2019-10126 CVE-2019-3846}
 - [wireless] mwifiex: Mark expected switch fall-through (Stanislaw Gruszka) [1714469 1721742 1714470 1721743] {CVE-2019-10126 CVE-2019-3846}
 - [wireless] mwifiex: Fix skipped vendor specific IEs (Stanislaw Gruszka) [1714469 1721742 1714470 1721743] {CVE-2019-10126 CVE-2019-3846}
 - [wireless] mwifiex: fix 802.11n/WPA detection (Stanislaw Gruszka) [1714469 1721742 1714470 1721743] {CVE-2019-10126 CVE-2019-3846}
 - [wireless] mwifiex: Don't abort on small, spec-compliant vendor IEs (Stanislaw Gruszka) [1714469 1721742 1714470 1721743] {CVE-2019-10126 CVE-2019-3846}
 - [wireless] mwifiex: Abort at too short BSS descriptor element (Stanislaw Gruszka) [1714469 1721742 1714470 1721743] {CVE-2019-10126 CVE-2019-3846}
 - [wireless] mwifiex: Fix possible buffer overflows at parsing bss descriptor (Stanislaw Gruszka) [1714469 1721742 1714470 1721743] {CVE-2019-10126 CVE-2019-3846}
 - [block] block: blk_init_allocated_queue() set q->fq as NULL in the fail case (Ming Lei) [1739326 1739327] {CVE-2018-20856}

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-2019-3055.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 130039

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2019-3055.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/18/2019

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-3846

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-10126

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-abi-whitelists, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bpftool, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perf, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python-perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel

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: 10/16/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/3/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-20856, CVE-2019-10126, CVE-2019-3846, CVE-2019-9506

RHSA: 2019:3055