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Oracle Linux 7 / 8 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2020-5691)

high Nessus Plugin ID 136727

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2020-5691 advisory.

 [5.4.17-2011.2.2uek]
 - scsi: qla2xxx: Move free of fcport out of interrupt context (Joe Carnuccio) [Orabug: 31225231]
 - xfs: move inode flush to the sync workqueue (Darrick J. Wong) [Orabug: 31132665]
 - arm64: Kconfig: Enable NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES config for NUMA (Hoan Tran) [Orabug: 31049202]
 - scsi: bnx2fc: timeout calculation invalid for bnx2fc_eh_abort() (Laurence Oberman) [Orabug: 31207643]
 - jbd2: disable CONFIG_JBD2_DEBUG (Junxiao Bi) [Orabug: 31264694]

 [5.4.17-2011.2.1uek]
 - x86/mce: Restart the system when LMCE UE error occurs (Thomas Tai) [Orabug: 31218859]

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-2020-5691.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 136727

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2020-5691.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/20/2020

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-11668

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/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, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perf, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-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: 5/18/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/6/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11608, CVE-2020-11609, CVE-2020-11668, CVE-2020-8647, CVE-2020-8649, CVE-2020-9391