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Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2019-4256)

high Nessus Plugin ID 132304

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2019-4256 advisory.

 - [virt] KVM: coalesced_mmio: add bounds checking (Bandan Das) [1746799] {CVE-2019-14821}
 - [virt] KVM: MMIO: Lock coalesced device when checking for available entry (Bandan Das) [1746799] {CVE-2019-14821}
 - [documentation] Documentation: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT documentation (Paolo Bonzini) [1692385] {CVE-2018-12207}
 - [kvm] KVM: introduce no_huge_pages module parameter (Paolo Bonzini) [1692385] {CVE-2018-12207}
 - [x86] x86: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT bug infrastructure (Paolo Bonzini) [1692385] {CVE-2018-12207}
 - [x86] x86/spec_ctrl/taa: Enable TAA status change after late microcode (Waiman Long) [1766531] {CVE-2019-11135}
 - [documentation] x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async Abort (Waiman Long) [1766531] {CVE-2019-11135}
 - [base] x86/speculation/taa: Add sysfs reporting for TSX Async Abort (Waiman Long) [1766531] {CVE-2019-11135}
 - [x86] x86/speculation/taa: Add mitigation for TSX Async Abort (Waiman Long) [1766531] {CVE-2019-11135}
 - [x86] x86/cpu: Add a helper function x86_read_arch_cap_msr() (Waiman Long) [1766531] {CVE-2019-11135}
 - [x86] x86/msr: Add the IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR (Waiman Long) [1766531] {CVE-2019-11135}
 - [drm] drm/i915/cmdparser: Fix jump whitelist clearing (Denys Vlasenko) [1756891] {CVE-2019-0155}
 - [drm] drm/i915: Lower RM timeout to avoid DSI hard hangs (Dave Airlie) [1756824] {CVE-2019-0154}
 - [drm] drm/i915/gen8+: Add RC6 CTX corruption WA (Dave Airlie) [1756824] {CVE-2019-0154}
 - [drm] drm/i915/cmdparser: Ignore Length operands during command matching (Dave Airlie) [1756891] {CVE-2019-0155}
 - [drm] drm/i915/cmdparser: Add support for backward jumps (Dave Airlie) [1756891] {CVE-2019-0155}
 - [drm] drm/i915: Add gen9 BCS cmdparsing (Dave Airlie) [1756891] {CVE-2019-0155}
 - [drm] drm/i915: Allow parsing of unsized batches (Dave Airlie) [1756891] {CVE-2019-0155}
 - [drm] drm/i915: Support ro ppgtt mapped cmdparser shadow buffers (Dave Airlie) [1756891] {CVE-2019-0155}
 - [drm] drm/i915: Add support for mandatory cmdparsing (Dave Airlie) [1756891] {CVE-2019-0155}
 - [drm] drm/i915: Remove Master tables from cmdparser (Dave Airlie) [1756891] {CVE-2019-0155}
 - [drm] drm/i915: Disable Secure Batches for gen6+ (Dave Airlie) [1756891] {CVE-2019-0155}
 - [drm] drm/i915: Rename gen7 cmdparser tables (Dave Airlie) [1756891] {CVE-2019-0155}
 - [drm] drm/i915/gtt: Disable read-only support under GVT (Dave Airlie) [1756891] {CVE-2019-0155}
 - [drm] erm/i915/gtt: Read-only pages for insert_entries on bdw+ (Dave Airlie) [1756891] {CVE-2019-0155}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-2019-4256.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 132304

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2019-4256.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/19/2019

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14821

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-abi-whitelists, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-firmware, 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, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/19/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14821

RHSA: 2019:4256