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Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2011-1465)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 68393

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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-2011-1465 advisory.

 - [net] vlan: fix panic when handling priority tagged frames (Andy Gospodarek) [742849 714936] {CVE-2011-3593}
 - [kernel] fix taskstats io infoleak (Jerome Marchand) [716847 716848] {CVE-2011-2494}
 - [tpm] Zero buffer after copying to userspace (Jiri Benc) [732632 732633] {CVE-2011-1162}
 - [fs] cifs: add fallback in is_path_accessible for old servers (Jeff Layton) [738301 692709] {CVE-2011-3363}
 - [fs] cifs: always do is_path_accessible check in cifs_mount (Jeff Layton) [738301 692709] {CVE-2011-3363}
 - [net] ipv6: make fragment identifications less predictable (Jiri Pirko) [723432 723433] {CVE-2011-2699}
 - [netdrv] b43: allocate receive buffers big enough for max frame len + offset (RuiRui Yang) [738204 738205] {CVE-2011-3359}
 - [fs] fuse: check size of FUSE_NOTIFY_INVAL_ENTRY message (RuiRui Yang) [736764 736765] {CVE-2011-3353}
 - [fs] cifs: fix possible memory corruption in CIFSFindNext (Jeff Layton) [737482 730354] {CVE-2011-3191}
 - [kernel] perf tools: do not look at ./config for configuration (Jiri Benc) [730203 730204] {CVE-2011-2905}
 - [fs] corrupted GUID partition tables can cause kernel oops (Jerome Marchand) [695981 695982] {CVE-2011-1577}
 - [net] Compute protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs using MD5. (Jiri Pirko) [732664 732665] {CVE-2011-3188}
 - [crypto] Move md5_transform to lib/md5.c (Jiri Pirko) [732664 732665] {CVE-2011-3188}

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-2011-1465.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 68393

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-1465.nasl

Version: 1.17

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-3191

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-3188

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: 11/22/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/13/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1162, CVE-2011-1577, CVE-2011-2494, CVE-2011-2699, CVE-2011-2905, CVE-2011-3188, CVE-2011-3191, CVE-2011-3353, CVE-2011-3359, CVE-2011-3363, CVE-2011-3593, CVE-2011-4326

BID: 47343, 48802, 49140, 49289, 49295, 49527, 49626, 49629, 50314, 50751

RHSA: 2011:1465