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Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2020-2933)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 138659

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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-2020-2933 advisory.

 - [x86] x86/speculation: Provide SRBDS late microcode loading support (Waiman Long) [1827185] {CVE-2020-0543}
 - [documentation] x86/speculation: Add Ivy Bridge to affected list (Waiman Long) [1827185] {CVE-2020-0543}
 - [documentation] x86/speculation: Add SRBDS vulnerability and mitigation documentation (Waiman Long) [1827185] {CVE-2020-0543}
 - [x86] x86/speculation: Add Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) mitigation (Waiman Long) [1827185] {CVE-2020-0543}
 - [x86] x86/cpu: Add 'table' argument to cpu_matches() (Waiman Long) [1827185] {CVE-2020-0543}
 - [x86] x86/cpu: Add a steppings field to struct x86_cpu_id (Waiman Long) [1827185] {CVE-2020-0543}
 - [x86] x86/cpu/bugs: Convert to new matching macros (Waiman Long) [1827185] {CVE-2020-0543}
 - [x86] x86/cpu: Add consistent CPU match macros (Waiman Long) [1827185] {CVE-2020-0543}
 - [x86] x86/devicetable: Move x86 specific macro out of generic code (Waiman Long) [1827185] {CVE-2020-0543}

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-2020-2933.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 138659

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2020-2933.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/20/2020

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-18660

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6, 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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/17/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/27/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-18660

RHSA: 2020:2933