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Oracle Linux 8 : kernel (ELSA-2020-1372)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 135378

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2020-1372 advisory.

 - [hid] hiddev: do cleanup in failure of opening a device (Benjamin Tissoires) [1803458 1803460] {CVE-2019-19527}
 - [hid] hiddev: avoid opening a disconnected device (Benjamin Tissoires) [1803458 1803460] {CVE-2019-19527}
 - [powerpc] kvm: ppc: book3s hv: Flush link stack on guest exit to host kernel (Gustavo Duarte) [1794056 1777686] {CVE-2019-18660}
 - [powerpc] book3s64: Fix link stack flush on context switch (Gustavo Duarte) [1794056 1777686] {CVE-2019-18660}
 - [powerpc] 64s: support nospectre_v2 cmdline option (Gustavo Duarte) [1794056 1777686] {CVE-2019-18660}
 - [powerpc] fsl: Update Spectre v2 reporting (Gustavo Duarte) [1794056 1777686] {CVE-2019-18660}
 - [powerpc] fsl: Add nospectre_v2 command line argument (Gustavo Duarte) [1794056 1777686] {CVE-2019-18660}
 - [powerpc] fsl: Fix spectre_v2 mitigations reporting (Gustavo Duarte) [1794056 1777686] {CVE-2019-18660}
 - [powerpc] 64: Make meltdown reporting Book3S 64 specific (Gustavo Duarte) [1794056 1777686] {CVE-2019-18660}
 - [powerpc] 64: Disable the speculation barrier from the command line (Gustavo Duarte) [1794056 1777686] {CVE-2019-18660}
 - [powerpc] powerpc/tm: Fix FP/VMX unavailable exceptions inside a transaction (Gustavo Duarte) [1788862 1750653] {CVE-2019-15030}
 - [powerpc] powerpc/tm: Fix restoring FP/VMX facility incorrectly on interrupts (Gustavo Duarte) [1791630 1750653] {CVE-2019-15031}

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-2020-1372.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 135378

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2020-1372.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/10/2020

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: 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-2019-19527

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-cross-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-modules, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-modules, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-abi-whitelists, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bpftool, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel

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: 4/9/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/13/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-15030, CVE-2019-15031, CVE-2019-18660, CVE-2019-19527

RHSA: 2020:1372