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Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2009-0473)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 67854

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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-2009-0473 advisory.

 - [misc] exit_notify: kill the wrong capable check [494270 494271] {CVE-2009-1337}
 - [misc] fork: CLONE_PARENT && parent_exec_id interaction (Don Howard ) [479963 479964] {CVE-2009-0028}
 - [nfs] v4: client crash on file lookup with long names (Sachin S. Prabhu ) [494078 493942] {CVE-2009-1336}
 - [nfs] remove bogus lock-if-signalled case (Bryn M. Reeves ) [456287 456288] {CVE-2008-4307}
 - [fs] ecryptfs: fix memory leak into crypto headers (Eric Sandeen ) [491255 491256] {CVE-2009-0787}
 - [ptrace] audit_syscall_entry to use right syscall number (Jiri Pirko ) [488001 488002] {CVE-2009-0834}

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-2009-0473.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 67854

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2009-0473.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: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-0787

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-2009-1336

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-128.1.10.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-128.1.10.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-128.1.10.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-128.1.10.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-128.1.10.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-128.1.10.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-128.1.10.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-128.1.10.0.1.el5xen, 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: 5/8/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/13/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4307, CVE-2009-0787, CVE-2009-0834, CVE-2009-1336, CVE-2009-1337

BID: 33951, 34405

RHSA: 2009:0473