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Oracle Linux 7 / 8 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2020-5884)

high Nessus Plugin ID 141395

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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-2020-5884 advisory.

 - xfs: fix boundary test in xfs_attr_shortform_verify (Eric Sandeen) [Orabug: 31895365] {CVE-2020-14385}
 - ext4: fix potential negative array index in do_split() (Eric Sandeen) [Orabug: 31895327] {CVE-2020-14314}
 - mm/hugetlb: fix a race between hugetlb sysctl handlers (Muchun Song) [Orabug: 31884234] {CVE-2020-25285}
 - rbd: require global CAP_SYS_ADMIN for mapping and unmapping (Ilya Dryomov) [Orabug: 31884154] {CVE-2020-25284}
 - nfs: Fix getxattr kernel panic and memory overflow (Jeffrey Mitchell) [Orabug: 31872895] {CVE-2020-25212}
 - net/packet: fix overflow in tpacket_rcv (Or Cohen) [Orabug: 31866487] {CVE-2020-14386} {CVE-2020-14386}
 - cgroup: Fix sock_cgroup_data on big-endian. (Cong Wang) [Orabug: 31779795] {CVE-2020-14356}
 - cgroup: fix cgroup_sk_alloc() for sk_clone_lock() (Cong Wang) [Orabug: 31779795] {CVE-2020-14356}

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-2020-5884.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 141395

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2020-5884.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/12/2020

Updated: 10/23/2024

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-2020-14386

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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-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: 10/12/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/19/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14314, CVE-2020-14356, CVE-2020-14385, CVE-2020-14386, CVE-2020-25212, CVE-2020-25284, CVE-2020-25285