Detections
Analytics

Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2011-0498)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68273

Language:

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-0498 advisory.

 - [drm] radeon/kms: check AA resolve registers on r300 + regression fix (Dave Airlie) [680001 680002] {CVE-2011-1016}
 - [infiniband] uverbs: Handle large number of entries in poll CQ (Eugene Teo) [688429 696137] {CVE-2011-1044 CVE-2010-4649}
 - [net] sctp: fix the INIT/INIT-ACK chunk length calculation (Thomas Graf) [695386 690743] {CVE-2011-1573}
 - [net] CAN: Use inode instead of kernel address for /proc file (Danny Feng) [664560 664561] {CVE-2010-4565}
 - [fs] inotify: fix double free/corruption of stuct user (Eric Paris) [656831 656832] {CVE-2010-4250}
 - [fs] inotify: stop kernel memory leak on file creation failure (Eric Paris) [656831 656832] {CVE-2010-4250}
 - [net] fix ebtables stack infoleak (Eugene Teo) [681322 681323] {CVE-2011-1080}
 - [drm] fix unsigned vs signed comparison issue in modeset ctl ioctl (Don Howard) [679927 679928] {CVE-2011-1013}
 - [net] bnep: fix buffer overflow (Don Howard) [681315 681316] {CVE-2011-1079}
 - [kernel] CAP_SYS_MODULE bypass via CAP_NET_ADMIN (Phillip Lougher) [681772 681773] {CVE-2011-1019}
 - [kernel] failure to revert address limit override in OOPS error path (Dave Anderson) [659572 659573] {CVE-2010-4258}
 - [fs] xfs: zero proper structure size for geometry calls (Phillip Lougher) [677267 677268] {CVE-2011-0711}
 - [fs] xfs: prevent leaking uninitialized stack memory in FSGEOMETRY_V1 (Phillip Lougher) [677267 677268] {CVE-2011-0711}
 - [kernel] proc: protect mm start_code/end_code in /proc/pid/stat (Eugene Teo) [684572 684573] {CVE-2011-0726}
 - [net] dccp oops (Eugene Teo) [682957 682958] {CVE-2011-1093}
 - [security] ima: fix add LSM rule bug (Eric Paris) [667914 667915] {CVE-2011-0006}
 - [sound] caiaq: Fix possible string buffer overflow (Jaroslav Kysela) [678475 678476] {CVE-2011-0712}

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-2011-0498.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68273

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-0498.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 10/22/2024

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-2011-1013

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/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-2011-1573

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-firmware, 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, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

Required KB Items: Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/10/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/4/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-4250, CVE-2010-4565, CVE-2010-4649, CVE-2011-0006, CVE-2011-0711, CVE-2011-0712, CVE-2011-0726, CVE-2011-1013, CVE-2011-1016, CVE-2011-1019, CVE-2011-1044, CVE-2011-1079, CVE-2011-1080, CVE-2011-1093, CVE-2011-1573

BID: 46417, 46419, 46488, 46557, 46616, 46793, 47308, 47639, 47792

RHSA: 2011:0498