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Oracle Linux 8 : kernel (ELSA-2023-1566)

high Nessus Plugin ID 173973

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2023-1566 advisory.

 - ovl: fail on invalid uid/gid mapping at copy up (Miklos Szeredi) [2165341 2165342] {CVE-2023-0386}
 - ALSA: pcm: Move rwsem lock inside snd_ctl_elem_read to prevent UAF (Jaroslav Kysela) [2163400 2163401] {CVE-2023-0266}
 - act_mirred: use the backlog for nested calls to mirred ingress (Davide Caratti) [2164648 2131339] {CVE-2022-4269}
 - net/sched: act_mirred: better wording on protection against excessive stack growth (Davide Caratti) [2164648 2131339] {CVE-2022-4269}
 - proc: proc_skip_spaces() shouldn't think it is working on C strings (Wander Lairson Costa) [2152571 2152572] {CVE-2022-4378}

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-2023-1566.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 173973

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2023-1566.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/6/2023

Updated: 11/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-0386

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

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:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-cross-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-modules, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-modules, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-abi-stablelists, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bpftool, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-modules-extra, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel

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: 4/5/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/5/2022

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 4/20/2023

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Local Privilege Escalation via CVE-2023-0386)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-4269, CVE-2022-4378, CVE-2023-0266, CVE-2023-0386