CentOS 3 : kernel (CESA-2006:0144)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 21882

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3. This is the seventh regular update.

This security advisory has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system.

This is the seventh regular kernel update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

New features introduced by this update include :

- addition of the bnx2, dell_rbu, and megaraid_sas device drivers - support for multi-core, multi-threaded Intel Itanium processors - upgrade of the SATA subsystem to include ATAPI and SMART support - optional tuning via the new numa_memory_allocator, arp_announce, and printk_ratelimit sysctls

There were many bug fixes in various parts of the kernel. The ongoing effort to resolve these problems has resulted in a marked improvement in the reliability and scalability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

There were numerous driver updates and security fixes (elaborated below). Other key areas affected by fixes in this update include the networking subsystem, the VM subsystem, NPTL handling, autofs4, the USB subsystem, CPU enumeration, and 32-bit-exec-mode handling on 64-bit architectures.

The following device drivers have been upgraded to new versions :

aacraid -------- 1.1.5-2412 bnx2 ----------- 1.4.30 (new) dell_rbu
------- 2.1 (new) e1000 ---------- 6.1.16-k3 emulex --------- 7.3.3 fusion --------- 2.06.16.02 ipmi ----------- 35.11 megaraid2 ------ v2.10.10.1 megaraid_sas --- 00.00.02.00 (new) tg3 ------------ 3.43RH

The following security bugs were fixed in this update :

- a flaw in gzip/zlib handling internal to the kernel that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) (CVE-2005-2458,low)

- a flaw in ext3 EA/ACL handling of attribute sharing that allowed a local user to gain privileges (CVE-2005-2801, moderate)

- a minor info leak with the get_thread_area() syscall that allowed a local user to view uninitialized kernel stack data (CVE-2005-3276, low)

Note: The kernel-unsupported package contains various drivers and modules that are unsupported and therefore might contain security problems that have not been addressed.

All Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 users are advised to upgrade their kernels to the packages associated with their machine architectures and configurations as listed in this erratum.

Solution

Update the affected kernel packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 21882

File Name: centos_RHSA-2006-0144.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 7/3/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:3, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:kernel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:kernel-boot, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:kernel-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:kernel-hugemem, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:kernel-hugemem-unsupported, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:kernel-smp, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:kernel-smp-unsupported, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:kernel-source, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:kernel-unsupported

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/15/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/23/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2458, CVE-2005-2801, CVE-2005-3276, CVE-2005-4798

RHSA: 2006:0144

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