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Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2011-0542)

high Nessus Plugin ID 181049

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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-2011-0542 advisory.

 - [net] limit socket backlog add operation to prevent possible DoS (Jiri Pirko) [694396] {CVE-2010-4251}
 - [scsi] mpt2sas: prevent heap overflows and unchecked (Tomas Henzl) [694023] {CVE-2011-1494 CVE-2011-1495}
 - [fs] epoll: prevent creating circular epoll structures (Don Howard) [681683] {CVE-2011-1082}
 - [fs] nfs: Ensure that NFS4 acl requests don't use slab in skb fraglist (Neil Horman) [682645] {CVE-2011-1090}
 - [fs] partitions: Validate map_count in Mac partition tables (Danny Feng) [679286] {CVE-2011-1010}
 - [fs] Fix corrupted OSF partition table parsing (Danny Feng) [688025] {CVE-2011-1163}
 - [net] sctp: fix the INIT/INIT-ACK chunk length calculation (Thomas Graf) [690743] {CVE-2011-1573}
 - [net] CAN: Use inode instead of kernel address for /proc file (Danny Feng) [664561] {CVE-2010-4565}
 - [fs] inotify: fix double free/corruption of stuct user (Eric Paris) [656832] {CVE-2010-4250}
 - [net] bonding: fix incorrect tx queue offset (Andy Gospodarek) [695548] {CVE-2011-1581}
 - [tracing] t_start: reset FTRACE_ITER_HASH in case of seek/pread (Jiri Olsa) [631626] {CVE-2010-3079}
 - [net] ipv6: netfilter: ip6_tables: fix infoleak to userspace (Jiri Pirko) [689351] {CVE-2011-1172}
 - [net] netfilter: ip_tables: fix infoleak to userspace (Jiri Pirko) [689334] {CVE-2011-1171}
 - [net] netfilter: arp_tables: fix infoleak to userspace (Jiri Pirko) [689325] {CVE-2011-1170}
 - [drm] radeon/kms: check AA resolve registers on r300 + regression fix (Dave Airlie) [680002] {CVE-2011-1016}
 - [net] fix ebtables stack infoleak (Eugene Teo) [681323] {CVE-2011-1080}
 - [drm] fix unsigned vs signed comparison issue in modeset ctl ioctl (Don Howard) [679928] {CVE-2011-1013}

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-2011-0542.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 181049

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-0542.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/7/2023

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-1581

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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-2010-4805

Vulnerability Information

CPE: 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, 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:kernel-debug-devel

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: 5/28/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3881, CVE-2010-4251, CVE-2010-4805, CVE-2011-0999, CVE-2011-1010, CVE-2011-1023, CVE-2011-1082, CVE-2011-1090, CVE-2011-1163, CVE-2011-1170, CVE-2011-1171, CVE-2011-1172, CVE-2011-1494, CVE-2011-1495, CVE-2011-1581