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Oracle Linux 5 : Important: / kernel (ELSA-2008-0154)

high Nessus Plugin ID 67659

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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-2008-0154 advisory.

 [2.6.18-53.1.14.0.1.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]

 [2.6.18-53.1.14.el5]
 - merge from 2.6.18-53.1.13 to 2.6.18-53.1.12
 - [nfs] potential file corruption issue when writing (Jeff Layton ) [432078]
 - [ppc] chrp: fix possible strncmp NULL pointer usage (Vitaly Mayatskikh ) [396821]
 - [isdn] i4l: fix memory overruns (Vitaly Mayatskikh ) [425171]
 - [isdn] fix possible isdn_net buffer overflows (Aristeu Rozanski ) [392151] {CVE-2007-6063}
 - [mm] hugepages: leak due to pagetable page sharing (Larry Woodman ) [431522]
 - [net] NULL dereference in iwl driver (Vitaly Mayatskikh ) [401421] {CVE-2007-5938}
 - [misc] Denial of service with wedged processes (Jerome Marchand ) [221403]
 - [xen] ia64: hvm guest memory range checking (Jarod Wilson ) [408701]

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-2008-0154.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 67659

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2008-0154.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: 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-2007-6063

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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-2007-5938

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-53.1.14.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-53.1.14.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-53.1.14.0.1.el5pae, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-53.1.14.0.1.el5xen, 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:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-53.1.14.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-53.1.14.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-53.1.14.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-53.1.14.0.1.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: 3/6/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/12/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-6921, CVE-2007-5938, CVE-2007-6063, CVE-2007-6207, CVE-2007-6694

BID: 26605

RHSA: 2008:0154