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Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2011-1530)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 181034

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-1530 advisory.

 - [kernel] KEYS: Fix a NULL pointer deref in the user-defined key type (David Howells) [751190] {CVE-2011-4110}
 - [netdrv] benet: remove bogus 'unlikely' on vlan check (Ivan Vecera) [736429] {CVE-2011-3347}
 - [netdrv] be2net: non-member vlan pkts not received in promiscous mode (Ivan Vecera) [736429] {CVE-2011-3347}
 - [netdrv] be2net: fix crash receiving non-member VLAN packets (Ivan Vecera) [736429] {CVE-2011-3347}
 - [fs] GFS2: rewrite fallocate code to write blocks directly (Benjamin Marzinski) [750208] {CVE-2011-4098}
 - [net] vlan: fix panic when handling priority tagged frames (Andy Gospodarek) [714936] {CVE-2011-3593}
 - [mm] oom: fix integer overflow of points in oom_badness (Frantisek Hrbata) [741207] {CVE-2011-4097}
 - [fs] ext4: fix BUG_ON() in ext4_ext_insert_extent() (Lukas Czerner) [742091] {CVE-2011-3638}
 - [fs] proc: fix oops on invalid /proc/pid/maps access (Johannes Weiner) [746613] {CVE-2011-3637}
 - [kernel] fix taskstats io infoleak (Jerome Marchand) [716848] {CVE-2011-2494}
 - [net] bridge: fix use after free in __br_deliver() (Amerigo Wang) [730756] {CVE-2011-2942}
 - [fs] cifs: add fallback in is_path_accessible for old servers (Jeff Layton) [692709] {CVE-2011-3363}
 - [tpm] Zero buffer after copying to userspace (Jiri Benc) [732633] {CVE-2011-1161 CVE-2011-1162}
 - [fs] make sessionid permissions in /proc/*/task/* match those in /proc/* (Johannes Weiner) [692039] {CVE-2011-1020}
 - [netdrv] b43: allocate receive buffers big enough for max frame len + offset (RuiRui Yang) [738205] {CVE-2011-3359}
 - [fs] fuse: check size of FUSE_NOTIFY_INVAL_ENTRY message (RuiRui Yang) [736765] {CVE-2011-3353}
 - [fs] cifs: fix possible memory corruption in CIFSFindNext (Jeff Layton) [730354] {CVE-2011-3191}
 - [kernel] perf tools: do not look at ./config for configuration (Jiri Benc) [730204] {CVE-2011-2905}
 - [fs] corrupted GUID partition tables can cause kernel oops (Jerome Marchand) [695982] {CVE-2011-1577}
 - [x86] perf: Fix Intel fixed counters base initialization (Don Zickus) [736284] {CVE-2011-2521}
 - [net] Compute protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs using MD5. (Jiri Pirko) [732665] {CVE-2011-3188}
 - [crypto] Move md5_transform to lib/md5.c (Jiri Pirko) [732665] {CVE-2011-3188}
 - [net] ipv6: make fragment identifications less predictable (Jiri Pirko) [723433] {CVE-2011-2699}

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-2011-1530.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 181034

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-1530.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/7/2023

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: 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:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-1020

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-4110

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-firmware, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python-perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/14/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/25/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1020, CVE-2011-3347, CVE-2011-3638, CVE-2011-4110