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Oracle Linux 5 : Important: / kernel (ELSA-2007-0936)

high Nessus Plugin ID 67577

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2007-0936 advisory.

 [2.6.18-8.1.14.0.2.el5]
 - Fix bonding primary=ethX (Bert Barbe) [IT 101532] [ORA 5136660]
 - Add entropy module option to e1000/bnx2 (John Sobecki) [ORA 6045759]

 [2.6.18-8.1.14.el5]
 - Revert changes back to 2.6.18-8.1.10.
 - [x86_64] Zero extend all registers after ptrace in 32bit entry path (Anton Arapov ) [297871] {CVE-2007-4573}

 [2.6.18-8.1.12.el5]
 - [x86_64] Don't leak NT bit into next task (Dave Anderson ) [298151] {CVE-2007-4574}
 - [fs] Reset current->pdeath_signal on SUID binary execution (Peter Zijlstra ) [252307] {CVE-2007-3848}
 - [misc] Bounds check ordering issue in random driver (Anton Arapov ) [275961] {CVE-2007-3105}
 - [usb] usblcd: Locally triggerable memory consumption (Anton Arapov ) [276001] {CVE-2007-3513}
 - [x86_64] Zero extend all registers after ptrace in 32bit entry path (Anton Arapov ) [297871] {CVE-2007-4573}
 - [net] igmp: check for NULL when allocating GFP_ATOMIC skbs (Neil Horman ) [303281]

 [2.6.18-8.1.11.el5]
 - [xen] Guest access to MSR may cause system crash/data corruption (Bhavana Nagendra ) [253312] {CVE-2007-3733}
 - [dlm] A TCP connection to DLM port blocks DLM operations (Patrick Caulfield ) [245922] {CVE-2007-3380}
 - [ppc] 4k page mapping support for userspace in 64k kernels (Scott Moser ) [275841] {CVE-2007-3850}
 - [ptrace] NULL pointer dereference triggered by ptrace (Anton Arapov ) [275981] {CVE-2007-3731}
 - [fs] hugetlb: fix prio_tree unit (Konrad Rzeszutek ) [253929] {CVE-2007-4133}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-2007-0936.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 67577

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2007-0936.nasl

Version: 1.16

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: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-4573

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-8.1.14.0.2.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-8.1.14.0.2.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-8.1.14.0.2.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-8.1.14.0.2.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-8.1.14.0.2.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-8.1.14.0.2.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/30/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/24/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4573

BID: 25774

RHSA: 2007:0936