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Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2022-9852)

high Nessus Plugin ID 165663

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2022-9852 advisory.

 - media: imon: Fix null-ptr-deref in imon_probe (Arvind Yadav) [Orabug: 31225377] {CVE-2017-16537}
 - fbcon: remove soft scrollback code (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 31914703] {CVE-2020-14390}
 - inet: use bigger hash table for IP ID generation (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 33778986] {CVE-2021-45486}
 - media: v4l: ioctl: Fix memory leak in video_usercopy (Sakari Ailus) [Orabug: 32759975] {CVE-2021-30002}
 - futex: Remove requirement for lock_page() in get_futex_key() (Mel Gorman) [Orabug: 29048998] {CVE-2018-9422}
 - mwifiex: Fix skb_over_panic in mwifiex_usb_recv() (Zekun Shen) [Orabug: 33784271] {CVE-2021-43976}
 - af_key: Do not call xfrm_probe_algs in parallel (Herbert Xu) [Orabug: 34566754] {CVE-2022-3028}
 - ext4: fix kernel infoleak via ext4_extent_header (Anirudh Rayabharam) [Orabug: 34579226] {CVE-2022-0850}
 - net: usb: ax88179_178a: Fix out-of-bounds accesses in RX fixup (Jann Horn) [Orabug: 34594265] {CVE-2022-2964}
 - KEYS: fix keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring() to not leak thread keyrings (Eric Biggers) [Orabug: 27902747] {CVE-2017-7472}
 - KEYS: prevent creating a different user's keyrings (Eric Biggers) [Orabug: 29013653] {CVE-2017-18270}
 - scsi: sg: add sg_remove_request in sg_write (Wu Bo) [Orabug: 31350699] {CVE-2020-12770}
 - xfrm: xfrm_policy: fix a possible double xfrm_pols_put() in xfrm_bundle_lookup() (Hangyu Hua) [Orabug:
 34503626] {CVE-2022-36879}
 - ext4: verify dir block before splitting it (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 34555416] {CVE-2022-1184}

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-2022-9852.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 165663

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2022-9852.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/5/2022

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-2018-9422

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-2022-2964

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-firmware, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

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: 10/4/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/27/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16537, CVE-2017-18270, CVE-2017-7472, CVE-2018-9422, CVE-2020-12770, CVE-2020-14390, CVE-2021-30002, CVE-2021-43976, CVE-2021-45486, CVE-2022-0850, CVE-2022-1184, CVE-2022-2503, CVE-2022-2964, CVE-2022-3028, CVE-2022-36879