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Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2010-0661)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 68092

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2010-0661 advisory.

 - [mm] accept an abutting stack segment (Jiri Pirko) [607857 607858] {CVE-2010-2240}
 - [mm] pass correct mm when growing stack (Jiri Pirko) [607857 607858] {CVE-2010-2240}
 - [mm] fix up some user-visible effects of stack guard page (Jiri Pirko) [607857 607858] {CVE-2010-2240}
 - [mm] fix page table unmap for stack guard page properly (Jiri Pirko) [607857 607858] {CVE-2010-2240}
 - [mm] fix missing unmap for stack guard page failure case (Jiri Pirko) [607857 607858] {CVE-2010-2240}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-2010-0661.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 68092

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2010-0661.nasl

Version: 1.14

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: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-2240

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-194.11.3.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-194.11.3.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-194.11.3.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-194.11.3.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-194.11.3.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-194.11.3.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-194.11.3.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-194.11.3.0.1.el5xen, 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: 8/31/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/3/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2240

RHSA: 2010:0661