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Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2011-0833)

high Nessus Plugin ID 68276

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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-2011-0833 advisory.

 - [scsi] mpt2sas: prevent heap overflows and unchecked access (Tomas Henzl) [694526 694527] {CVE-2011-1495 CVE-2011-1494}
 - [net] bridge/netfilter: fix ebtables information leak (Don Howard) [681325 681326] {CVE-2011-1080}
 - [net] bluetooth: fix sco information leak to userspace (Don Howard) [681310 681311] {CVE-2011-1078}
 - [fs] fix corrupted GUID partition table kernel oops (Jerome Marchand) [695979 695980] {CVE-2011-1577}
 - [xen] x86/domain: fix error checks in arch_set_info_guest (Laszlo Ersek) [688581 688582] {CVE-2011-1166}
 - [fs] partitions: Fix corrupted OSF partition table parsing (Danny Feng) [688022 688023] {CVE-2011-1163}
 - [net] netfilter: ip6_tables: fix infoleak to userspace (Jiri Pirko) [689348 689349] {CVE-2011-1172}
 - [net] netfilter/ip_tables: fix infoleak to userspace (Jiri Pirko) [689331 689332] {CVE-2011-1171}
 - [net] netfilter/arp_tables: fix infoleak to userspace (Jiri Pirko) [689322 689323] {CVE-2011-1170}
 - [fs] proc: protect mm start_/end_code in /proc/pid/stat (Eugene Teo) [684570 684571] {CVE-2011-0726}
 - [net] dccp: fix oops in dccp_rcv_state_process (Eugene Teo) [682955 682956] {CVE-2011-1093}
 - [net] bluetooth: fix bnep buffer overflow (Don Howard) [681318 681319] {CVE-2011-1079}

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-2011-0833.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 68276

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-0833.nasl

Version: 1.21

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: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-1763

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-1093

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-238.12.1.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-238.12.1.0.1.el5debug, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-238.12.1.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-238.12.1.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-238.12.1.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-238.12.1.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-238.12.1.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-238.12.1.0.1.el5xen, 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/1/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0726, CVE-2011-1078, CVE-2011-1079, CVE-2011-1080, CVE-2011-1093, CVE-2011-1163, CVE-2011-1166, CVE-2011-1170, CVE-2011-1171, CVE-2011-1172, CVE-2011-1494, CVE-2011-1495, CVE-2011-1577, CVE-2011-1763

BID: 46616, 46793, 46878, 46919, 47185, 47343, 47791, 48048

RHSA: 2011:0833