Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2010-0398)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68037

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-2010-0398 advisory.

- [xen] arpl on MMIO area crashes the guest (Paolo Bonzini) [572979 572982] {CVE-2010-0730}
- [misc] kernel: fix elf load DoS on x86_64 (Danny Feng) [560552 560553] {CVE-2010-0307}
- [netlink] connector: delete buggy notification code (Jiri Olsa) [561684 561685] {CVE-2010-0410}
- [sound] hda_intel: avoid divide by zero in azx devices (Jaroslav Kysela) [567171 567172] {CVE-2010-1085}
- [dvb] fix endless loop when decoding ULE at dvb-core (Mauro Carvalho Chehab) [569241 569242] {CVE-2010-1086}

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-2010-0398.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68037

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2010-0398.nasl

Version: 1.18

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-1086

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-2010-0410

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-194.3.1.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-194.3.1.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-194.3.1.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-194.3.1.0.1.el5xen, 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:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-194.3.1.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-194.3.1.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-194.3.1.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-194.3.1.0.1.el5

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: 5/7/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/17/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0307, CVE-2010-0410, CVE-2010-0730, CVE-2010-1085, CVE-2010-1086

BID: 38027, 38058, 38348, 38479

RHSA: 2010:0398