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Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2010-0839)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68135

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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-2010-0839 advisory.

 - [net] rds: fix local privilege escalation (Eugene Teo) [642897 642898] {CVE-2010-3904}
 - [misc] futex: replace LOCK_PREFIX in futex.h (Peter Zijlstra) [633175 633176] {CVE-2010-3086}
 - [v4l] remove compat code for VIDIOCSMICROCODE (Mauro Carvalho Chehab) [642470 642471] {CVE-2010-2963}
 - [net] sched: fix info leak in traffic policing (Neil Horman) [636391 636392] {CVE-2010-3477}
 - [fs] aio: check for multiplication overflow in io_submit (Jeff Moyer) [629448 629449] {CVE-2010-3067}
 - [fs] xfs: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory (Dave Chinner) [630806 630807] {CVE-2010-3078}
 - [fs] aio: fix cleanup in io_submit_one (Jeff Moyer) [631720 631721] {CVE-2010-3066}

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-2010-0839.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68135

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2010-0839.nasl

Version: 1.16

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: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-3477

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-3078

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-194.26.1.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-194.26.1.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-194.26.1.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-194.26.1.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-194.26.1.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-194.26.1.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-194.26.1.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-194.26.1.0.1.el5, 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

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: 11/10/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/21/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3066, CVE-2010-3067, CVE-2010-3078, CVE-2010-3086, CVE-2010-3448, CVE-2010-3477

BID: 42529, 43022, 43353, 44754

RHSA: 2010:0839