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Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2009-1106)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 67874

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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-2009-1106 advisory.

 - [nfs] v4: client handling of MAY_EXEC in nfs_permission (Peter Staubach ) [500301 500302] {CVE-2009-1630}
 - [fs] cifs: fix pointer and checks in cifs_follow_symlink (Jeff Layton ) [496576 496577] {CVE-2009-1633}
 - [fs] cifs: fix error handling in parse_DFS_referrals (Jeff Layton ) [496576 496577] {CVE-2009-1633}
 - [fs] cifs: buffer overruns when converting strings (Jeff Layton ) [496576 496577] {CVE-2009-1633}
 - [fs] cifs: unicode alignment and buffer sizing problems (Jeff Layton ) [494279 494280] {CVE-2009-1439}
 - [x86] xen: fix local denial of service (Chris Lalancette ) [500950 500951] {CVE-2009-1758}
 - [misc] add some long-missing capabilities to CAP_FS_MASK (Eric Paris ) [499075 497271 499076 497272] {CVE-2009-1072}
 - [agp] zero pages before sending to userspace (Jiri Olsa ) [497025 497026] {CVE-2009-1192}

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-2009-1106.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 67874

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2009-1106.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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-3238

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:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-128.1.14.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-128.1.14.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-128.1.14.0.1.el5debug, 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:ocfs2-2.6.18-128.1.14.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-128.1.14.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-128.1.14.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-128.1.14.0.1.el5, 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:oracleasm-2.6.18-128.1.14.0.1.el5xen

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: 6/17/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/24/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1072, CVE-2009-1192, CVE-2009-1439, CVE-2009-1630, CVE-2009-1633, CVE-2009-1758, CVE-2009-3238

BID: 34205, 34453, 34612, 34673, 34934, 34957

RHSA: 2009:1106