Oracle Linux 5 : Important: / kernel (ELSA-2008-0089)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 67645

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-2008-0089 advisory.

[2.6.18-53.1.6.0.1.el5]
- [NET] Add entropy support to e1000 and bnx2 (John Sobecki) [ORA 6045759]
- [NET] Fix msi issue with kexec/kdump (Michael Chan) [ORA 6219364]
- [MM] Fix alloc_pages_node() static `nid\' race made kernel crash (Joe Jin) [ORA 6187457]
- [splice] Fix bad unlock_page() in error case (Jens Axboe) [ORA 6263574]
- [dio] fix error-path crashes (Linux Torvalds) [ORA 6242289]
- [MM] Fix leak in hugepages, regression for shared pagetables patch (Adam Litke) [ORABUG 6732368]

[2.6.18-53.1.6.el5]
- [fs] corruption by unprivileged user in directories (Vitaly Mayatskikh ) [428796] {CVE-2008-0001}

[2.6.18-53.1.5.el5]
- [ia64] ptrace: access to user register backing (Roland McGrath ) [259801]
- [fs] cifs: buffer overflow due to corrupt response (Jeff Layton ) [372991]
- [net] s2io: correct VLAN frame reception (Andy Gospodarek ) [426289]
- [net] s2io: allow VLAN creation on interfaces (Andy Gospodarek ) [426289]
- [misc] tux: get rid of O_ATOMICLOOKUP (Michal Schmidt ) [426494]
- [x86_64] fix race conditions in setup_APIC_timer (Geoff Gustafson ) [424181]
- [fs] core dump file ownership (Don Howard ) [396991]
- [nfs] let rpciod finish sillyrename then umount (Steve Dickson ) [414041]
- [nfs] fix a race in silly rename (Steve Dickson ) [414041]
- [nfs] clean up the silly rename code (Steve Dickson ) [414041]
- [nfs] infrastructure changes for silly renames (Steve Dickson ) [414041]
- [nfs] introduce nfs_removeargs and nfs_removeres (Steve Dickson ) [414041]
- [ia64] remove stack hard limit (Aron Griffis ) [412091]
- [fs] sysfs: fix race condition around sd->s_dentry (Eric Sandeen ) [245777] {CVE-2007-3104}
- [fs] sysfs: fix condition check in sysfs_drop_dentry() (Eric Sandeen ) [245777] {CVE-2007-3104}
- [fs] sysfs: store inode nrs in s_ino (Eric Sandeen ) [245777] {CVE-2007-3104}
- [xen] ia64: vulnerability of copy_to_user in PAL emu (Jarod Wilson ) [425938]

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-2008-0089.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 67645

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2008-0089.nasl

Version: 1.18

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-5904

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:H/I:N/A:N

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-6206

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-53.1.6.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-53.1.6.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-53.1.6.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-53.1.6.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-53.1.6.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-53.1.6.0.1.el5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/25/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/26/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3104, CVE-2007-5904, CVE-2007-6206, CVE-2007-6416, CVE-2008-0001

BID: 24631, 26438, 26701, 27280

RHSA: 2008:0089