Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2008-0612)

high Nessus Plugin ID 67730

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-2008-0612 advisory.

- [tty] add NULL pointer checks (Aristeu Rozanski ) [453425 453154] {CVE-2008-2812}
- [net] sctp: make sure sctp_addr does not overflow (David S. Miller ) [452482 452483] {CVE-2008-2826}
- [sys] sys_setrlimit: prevent setting RLIMIT_CPU to 0 (Neil Horman ) [437121 437122] {CVE-2008-1294}
- [net] sit: exploitable remote memory leak (Jiri Pirko ) [446038 446039] {CVE-2008-2136}

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-2008-0612.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 67730

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2008-0612.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: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-2812

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5xen, 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:ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5, 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, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5

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: 8/5/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1294, CVE-2008-2136, CVE-2008-2812

BID: 29235, 30076

RHSA: 2008:0612