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Oracle Linux 9 : systemd (ELSA-2023-0336)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 170666

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-0336 advisory.

 [250-12.0.2.el9_1.1]
 - Backport upstream pstore dmesg fix [Orabug: 34868110]
 - Remove upstream references [Orabug: 33995357]
 - Disable unprivileged BPF by default [Orabug: 32870980]
 - udev rules: fix memory hot add and remove [Orabug: 31310273]
 - set 'RemoveIPC=no' in logind.conf as default for OL7.2 [Orabug: 22224874]
 - allow dm remove ioctl to co-operate with UEK3 (Vaughan Cao) [Orabug: 18467469]
 - fix _netdev is missing for iscsi entry in /etc/fstab ([email protected]) [Orabug: 25897792]
 - shutdown: get only active md arrays. [Orabug: 34467234]

 [250-12.1]
 - time-util: fix buffer-over-run (#2139388)

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-2023-0336.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 170666

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2023-0336.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/26/2023

Updated: 11/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-3821

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd-pam, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd-journal-remote, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd-resolved, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd-container, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd-udev, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd-oomd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:systemd-libs

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: 1/26/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/4/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-3821