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Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2009-0264)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 67800

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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-2009-0264 advisory.

 - [security] introduce missing kfree (Jiri Pirko ) [480597 480598] {CVE-2009-0031}
 - [net] sctp: overflow with bad stream ID in FWD-TSN chunk (Eugene Teo ) [478804 478805] {CVE-2009-0065}
 - [net] add preemption point in qdisc_run (Jiri Pirko ) [477746 471398] {CVE-2008-5713}
 - [fs] hfsplus: fix buffer overflow with a corrupted image (Anton Arapov ) [469637 469638] {CVE-2008-4933}
 - [fs] hfsplus: check read_mapping_page return value (Anton Arapov ) [469644 469645] {CVE-2008-4934}

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-2009-0264.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 67800

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2009-0264.nasl

Version: 1.19

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: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-0065

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-2009-0031

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-128.1.1.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-128.1.1.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-128.1.1.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-128.1.1.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-128.1.1.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-128.1.1.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-128.1.1.0.1.el5xen, 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:ocfs2-2.6.18-128.1.1.0.1.el5pae

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: 2/11/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/5/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4933, CVE-2008-4934, CVE-2008-5025, CVE-2008-5713, CVE-2009-0031, CVE-2009-0065

BID: 32093, 32289, 33113

RHSA: 2009:0264