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Oracle Linux 9 : systemd (ELSA-2023-0954)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 172037

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2023-0954 advisory.

 [250-12.0.2.3]
 - 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]

 [250-12.3]
 - shared/json: allow json_variant_dump() to return an error (#2149074)
 - shared/json: use different return code for empty input (#2149074)
 - coredump: avoid deadlock when passing processed backtrace data (#2149074)
 - test: disable flaky subtests that require udevadm wait/lock (#2149074)

 [250-12.2]
 - coredump: adjust whitespace (#2155516)
 - basic: add STRERROR() wrapper for strerror_r() (#2155516)
 - coredump: do not allow user to access coredumps with changed uid/gid/capabilities (#2155516)
 - Packit: build SRPMs in Copr (#2155516)
 - test: support non-summer time (#2155516)
 - test: bump the base VM memory to 768M (#2155516)
 - test: don't overwrite existing (#2155516)

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-2023-0954.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 172037

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2023-0954.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/1/2023

Updated: 11/2/2024

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:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-4415

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:H/I:N/A:N

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: 3/1/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/23/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-4415, CVE-2022-45873