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Oracle Linux 5 : Important: / kernel (ELSA-2007-0705)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 67543

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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-2007-0705 advisory.

 [2.6.18-8.1.10.0.1.el5]
 - Fix bonding primary=ethX (Bert Barbe) [IT 101532] [ORA 5136660]
 - Add entropy module option to e1000/bnx2 (John Sobecki) [ORA 6045759]

 [2.6.18-8.1.10.el5]
 - [mm] Prevent the stack growth into hugetlb reserved regions (Konrad Rzeszutek) [253313] {CVE-2007-3739}

 [2.6.18-8.1.9.el5]
 - [misc] cpuset information leak (Prarit Bhargava ) [245773] {CVE-2007-2875}
 - [net] ip_conntrack_sctp: fix remotely triggerable panic (Don Howard ) [245774] {CVE-2007-2876}
 - [misc] Overflow in CAPI subsystem (Anton Arapov ) [232260] {CVE-2007-1217}
 - [CIFS] fix signing sec= mount options (Jeff Layton ) [253315] {CVE-2007-3843}
 - [CIFS] respect umask when unix extensions are enabled (Jeff Layton ) [253314] {CVE-2007-3740}
 - [misc] i915_dma: fix batch buffer security bit for i965 chipsets (Aristeu Rozanski ) [252305] {CVE-2007-3851}
 - [fs] - Move msdos compat ioctl to msdos dir (Eric Sandeen ) [253317]
 - [fs] - fix VFAT compat ioctls on 64-bit systems (Eric Sandeen ) [253317] {CVE-2007-2878}

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-2007-0705.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 67543

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2007-0705.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-1217

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-2007-3739

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-8.1.10.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-8.1.10.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-8.1.10.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-8.1.10.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-8.1.10.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-8.1.10.0.1.el5

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: 9/14/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-1217, CVE-2007-2875, CVE-2007-2876, CVE-2007-2878, CVE-2007-3739, CVE-2007-3740, CVE-2007-3843, CVE-2007-3851

BID: 24376, 24389, 25244, 25263, 25672

RHSA: 2007:0705