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CentOS 3 : kernel (CESA-2007:1049)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 29190
Synopsis
The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.Description
Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and a bug in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 kernel are now available.This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
A flaw was found in the handling of process death signals. This allowed a local user to send arbitrary signals to the suid-process executed by that user. A successful exploitation of this flaw depends on the structure of the suid-program and its signal handling.
(CVE-2007-3848, Important)
A flaw was found in the IPv4 forwarding base. This allowed a local user to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2007-2172, Important)
A flaw was found where a corrupted executable file could cause cross-region memory mappings on Itanium systems. This allowed a local user to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2006-4538, Moderate)
A flaw was found in the stack expansion when using the hugetlb kernel on PowerPC systems. This allowed a local user to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2007-3739, Moderate)
A flaw was found in the aacraid SCSI driver. This allowed a local user to make ioctl calls to the driver that should be restricted to privileged users. (CVE-2007-4308, Moderate)
As well, these updated packages fix the following bug :
* a bug in the TCP header prediction code may have caused 'TCP:
Treason uncloaked!' messages to be logged. In certain situations this may have lead to TCP connections hanging or aborting.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues.
Solution
Update the affected kernel packages.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?c43460dc
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 29190
File Name: centos_RHSA-2007-1049.nasl
Version: 1.19
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: CentOS Local Security Checks
Published: 12/4/2007
Updated: 1/4/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.9
Temporal Score: 3.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:3, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:kernel-smp-unsupported, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:kernel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:kernel-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:kernel-boot, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:kernel-source, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:kernel-unsupported, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:kernel-hugemem, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:kernel-hugemem-unsupported, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:kernel-smp
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 12/7/2007
Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/5/2006
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2006-4538, CVE-2007-2172, CVE-2007-3739, CVE-2007-3848, CVE-2007-4308