Oracle Linux 5 : Oracle / Enterprise / Linux / 5.3 / kernel (ELSA-2009-0225)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 180612

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2009-0225 advisory.

- [net] atm: prevent local denial of service (Eugene Teo ) [473701] {CVE-2008-5079}
- [net] fix unix sockets kernel panic (Neil Horman ) [470436] {CVE-2008-5029}
- [audit] race between inotify watch removal and unmount (Josef Bacik ) [472329] {CVE-2008-5182}
- [video] uvc: buf overflow in format descriptor parsing (Jay Fenlason ) [470427] {CVE-2008-3496}
- [x86] vDSO: use install_special_mapping (Peter Zijlstra ) [460276] {CVE-2008-3527}
- [drm] i915 driver arbitrary ioremap (Eugene Teo ) [464509] {CVE-2008-3831}
- [fs] dont allow splice to files opened with O_APPEND (Eugene Teo ) [466710] {CVE-2008-4554}
- [net] sctp: INIT-ACK indicates no AUTH peer support oops (Eugene Teo ) [466082] {CVE-2008-4576}
- [fs] open() allows setgid bit when user is not in group (Eugene Teo ) [463687] {CVE-2008-4210}
- [xen] allow guests to hide the TSC from applications (Chris Lalancette ) [378481] {CVE-2007-5907}
- [x86_64] xen: local DOS due to NT bit leakage (Eugene Teo ) [457722] {CVE-2006-5755}
- [net] dccp_setsockopt_change integer overflow (Vitaly Mayatskikh ) [459235] {CVE-2008-3276}
- [mm] optimize ZERO_PAGE in 'get_user_pages' and fix XIP (Anton Arapov ) [452668] {CVE-2008-2372}
- [sound] snd_seq_oss_synth_make_info info leak (Eugene Teo ) [458001] {CVE-2008-3272}
- [mm] tmpfs: restore missing clear_highpage (Eugene Teo ) [426083]{CVE-2007-6417}
- [fs] vfs: fix lookup on deleted directory (Eugene Teo ) [457866]{CVE-2008-3275}
- [x86_64] zero the output of string inst on exception (Jiri Pirko ) [451276] {CVE-2008-2729}
- [net] dccp: sanity check feature length (Anton Arapov ) [447396] {CVE-2008-2358}
- [misc] buffer overflow in ASN.1 parsing routines (Anton Arapov ) [444465] {CVE-2008-1673}
- [x86_64] write system call vulnerability (Anton Arapov ) [433945] {CVE-2008-0598}

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-2009-0225.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 180612

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2009-0225.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/7/2023

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-5182

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5.3

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:H/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-5300

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-128.el5, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-128.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-128.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-128.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-128.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-128.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-128.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-128.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, 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: 1/27/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/6/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5029, CVE-2008-5079, CVE-2008-5182, CVE-2008-5300