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Oracle Linux 5 : Important: / kernel (ELSA-2008-0129)

high Nessus Plugin ID 67651

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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-2008-0129 advisory.

 [2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5]

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

 [2.6.18-53.1.13]
 - revert to 2.6.18-53.1.6.el5
 - [x86_64] kernel vmsplice_to_pipe flaw (Alexander Viro ) [432252] {CVE-2008-0600}

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-2008-0129.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 67651

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2008-0129.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: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-0600

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

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:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5xen, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-53.1.13.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, 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: 2/13/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/12/2008

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0600

BID: 27801

RHSA: 2008:0129