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Oracle Linux 7 : systemd (ELSA-2022-6160)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 164437

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2022-6160 advisory.

 [219-78.0.9.el7_9.7]
 - Core: explicitly trigger changing udev systemd_wants property [Orabug: 31858125]
 - Disable unprivileged BPF by default [Orabug: 32871008]
 - Resolve missing installation files for systemd-pstore [Orabug 32497787]
 - Change to have file tmpfiles.d/systemd-pstore.conf installed on upon initial installation, not on rpm update. [Orabug 31414539]
 - Backport upstream patches related to private-tmp (Sushmita Bhattacharya) [Orabug: 31561883]
 - backport upstream pstore tmpfiles patch (Eric DeVolder) [Orabug: 31414539]
 - udev rules: fix memory hot add and remove [Orabug: 31309730]
 - enable and start the pstore service [Orabug: 30950903]
 - fix to generate the systemd-pstore.service file [Orabug: 30235241]
 - Backport upstream patches for the new systemd-pstore tool [Orabug: 30235241]
 - do not create utmp update symlinks for reboot and poweroff [Orabug: 27854896]
 - OL7 udev rule for virtio net standby interface [Orabug: 28826743]
 - fix _netdev is missing for iscsi entry in /etc/fstab [Orabug: 25897792] ([email protected])
 - set 'RemoveIPC=no' in logind.conf as default for OL7.2 [22224874]
 - allow dm remove ioctl to co-operate with UEK3 (Vaughan Cao) [Orabug: 18467469]
 - add hv dynamic memory support (Jerry Snitselaar) [Orabug: 18621475]
 - daemon reload race fix [Orabug: 34205619]

 [219-78.7]
 - resolve: introduce reference counting on DnsStream (#2110544)

 [219-78.6]
 - resolved: pin stream while calling callbacks for it (#2110544)

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-2022-6160.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 164437

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2022-6160.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/25/2022

Updated: 11/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2526

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libgudev1, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd-resolved, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd-python, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd-journal-gateway, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd-networkd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libgudev1-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd-sysv, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd-libs

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: 8/25/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/24/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2526