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Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2011-0303)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68207

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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-2011-0303 advisory.

 - [net] fix unix socket local dos (Neil Horman) [656759 656760] {CVE-2010-4249}
 - [net] core: clear allocs for privileged ethtool actions (Jiri Pirko) [672432 672433] {CVE-2010-4655}
 - [net] limit socket backlog add operation to prevent DoS (Jiri Pirko) [657308 657309] {CVE-2010-4251}

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-2011-0303.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68207

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-0303.nasl

Version: 1.15

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-2010-4655

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:ocfs2-2.6.18-238.5.1.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-238.5.1.0.1.el5pae, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-238.5.1.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-238.5.1.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-238.5.1.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-238.5.1.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-238.5.1.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-238.5.1.0.1.el5debug, 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: 3/3/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/29/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-4249, CVE-2010-4251, CVE-2010-4655, CVE-2010-4805

BID: 45037, 45972

RHSA: 2011:0303