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Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2022-9969)

high Nessus Plugin ID 166797

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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-2022-9969 advisory.

 - ptp: fix the race between the release of ptp_clock and cdev (Vladis Dronov) [Orabug: 31350707] {CVE-2020-10690}
 - xfs: add agf freeblocks verify in xfs_agf_verify (Zheng Bin) [Orabug: 31350923] {CVE-2020-12655}
 - netfilter: nf_queue: do not allow packet truncation below transport header offset (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 34475433] {CVE-2022-36946}
 - media: em28xx: initialize refcount before kref_get (Dongliang Mu) [Orabug: 34619522] {CVE-2022-3239}
 - fs: Avoid premature clearing of capabilities (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 20429825] {CVE-2015-1350}
 - fs: Give dentry to inode_change_ok() instead of inode (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 20429825] {CVE-2015-1350}
 - nfsd: Disable NFSv2 timestamp workaround for NFSv3+ (Andreas Gruenbacher) [Orabug: 20429825] {CVE-2015-1350}
 - fuse: Propagate dentry down to inode_change_ok() (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 20429825] {CVE-2015-1350}
 - xfs: Propagate dentry down to inode_change_ok() (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 20429825] {CVE-2015-1350}
 - media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: refactor compat ioctl32 logic (Daniel Mentz) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
 - media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: don't copy back the result for certain errors (Hans Verkuil) [Orabug:
 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
 - media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: drop pr_info for unknown buffer type (Hans Verkuil) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
 - media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: copy clip list in put_v4l2_window32 (Hans Verkuil) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
 - media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32: Copy v4l2_window->global_alpha (Daniel Mentz) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
 - media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: make ctrl_is_pointer work for subdevs (Hans Verkuil) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
 - media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: fix ctrl_is_pointer (Hans Verkuil) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
 - media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: copy m.userptr in put_v4l2_plane32 (Hans Verkuil) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
 - media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: avoid sizeof(type) (Hans Verkuil) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
 - media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: move 'helper' functions to __get/put_v4l2_format32 (Hans Verkuil) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
 - media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: fix the indentation (Hans Verkuil) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
 - media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: add missing VIDIOC_PREPARE_BUF (Hans Verkuil) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
 - media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32: Fix timespec conversion (Daniel Mentz) [Orabug: 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
 - media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32: fix missing reserved field copy in put_v4l2_create32 (Tiffany Lin) [Orabug:
 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
 - media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32: fix missing length copy in put_v4l2_buffer32 (Tiffany Lin) [Orabug:
 28036613] {CVE-2017-13166}
 - mwifiex: Fix possible buffer overflows in mwifiex_ret_wmm_get_status() (Qing Xu) [Orabug: 31350517] {CVE-2020-12654}

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-2022-9969.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 166797

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2022-9969.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/2/2022

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-42739

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-2022-3239

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: 11/1/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/29/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1350, CVE-2017-13166, CVE-2020-10690, CVE-2020-12654, CVE-2020-12655, CVE-2021-42739, CVE-2022-3239, CVE-2022-36946