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Oracle Linux 8 : kernel (ELSA-2021-1578)

high Nessus Plugin ID 149914

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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-2021-1578 advisory.

 - drm/i915/guc: Update to use firmware v49.0.1 (Dave Airlie) [1935281] {CVE-2020-12362}
 - scsi: iscsi: Verify lengths on passthrough PDUs (Chris Leech) [1930833] {CVE-2021-27365}
 - scsi: iscsi: Ensure sysfs attributes are limited to PAGE_SIZE (Chris Leech) [1930856] {CVE-2021-27363}
 - scsi: iscsi: Restrict sessions and handles to admin capabilities (Chris Leech) [1930809] {CVE-2021-27364}
 - vt: Disable KD_FONT_OP_COPY (Dave Airlie) [1903937] {CVE-2020-28974}
 - fix regression in 'epoll: Keep a reference on files added to the check list' (Carlos Maiolino) [1920776] {CVE-2020-0466}
 - do_epoll_ctl(): clean the failure exits up a bit (Carlos Maiolino) [1920776] {CVE-2020-0466}
 - epoll: Keep a reference on files added to the check list (Carlos Maiolino) [1920776] {CVE-2020-0466}
 - net/vmw_vsock: fix NULL pointer dereference (Jon Maloy) [1925600] {CVE-2021-26708}
 - net/vmw_vsock: improve locking in vsock_connect_timeout() (Jon Maloy) [1925600] {CVE-2021-26708}
 - vsock: fix locking in vsock_shutdown() (Jon Maloy) [1925600] {CVE-2021-26708}
 - vsock: fix the race conditions in multi-transport support (Jon Maloy) [1925600] {CVE-2021-26708}

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-2021-1578.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 149914

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2021-1578.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/26/2021

Updated: 11/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-25643

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-27786

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-abi-stablelists, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-core, 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: 5/25/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/7/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-18811, CVE-2019-19523, CVE-2019-19528, CVE-2020-0431, CVE-2020-11608, CVE-2020-12114, CVE-2020-12362, CVE-2020-12464, CVE-2020-14314, CVE-2020-14356, CVE-2020-15437, CVE-2020-24394, CVE-2020-25212, CVE-2020-25284, CVE-2020-25285, CVE-2020-25643, CVE-2020-25704, CVE-2020-27786, CVE-2020-27835, CVE-2020-28974, CVE-2020-35508, CVE-2020-36322, CVE-2021-0342