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Oracle Linux 5 : Important:kernel (ELSA-2007-0940)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 67581

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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-2007-0940 advisory.

 [2.6.18-8.1.15.0.1.el5]
 - Fix bonding primary=ethX (Bert Barbe) [IT 101532] [ORA 5136660]
 - Add entropy module option to e1000/bnx2 (John Sobecki) [ORA 6045759]

 [2.6.18-8.1.15.el5]
 - [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}
 - [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}
 - [net] igmp: check for NULL when allocating GFP_ATOMIC skbs (Neil Horman ) [303281]
 - [scsi] aacraid: Missing ioctl() permission checks (Vitaly Mayatskikh ) [298371] {CVE-2007-4308}
 - [xen] Guest access to MSR may cause system crash/data corruption (Bhavana Nagendra ) [253312] {CVE-2007-3733}

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-2007-0940.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 67581

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2007-0940.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 11/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-3105

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-2007-3513

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-8.1.15.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-8.1.15.0.1.el5, 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-2.6.18-8.1.15.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-8.1.15.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-8.1.15.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-8.1.15.0.1.el5xen

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/23/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/3/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3105, CVE-2007-3380, CVE-2007-3513, CVE-2007-3731, CVE-2007-3848, CVE-2007-3850, CVE-2007-4133, CVE-2007-4308, CVE-2007-4574

BID: 24734, 25216, 25348, 25387

RHSA: 2007:0940