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Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2011-1479)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68394

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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-2011-1479 advisory.

 - [fs] cifs: always do is_path_accessible check in cifs_mount (Jeff Layton) [738299 738300] {CVE-2011-3363}
 - [fs] cifs: add fallback in is_path_accessible for old servers (Jeff Layton) [738299 738300] {CVE-2011-3363}
 - [char] tpm: Zero buffer after copying to userspace (Jiri Benc) [732630 732631] {CVE-2011-1162}
 - [fs] hfs: fix hfs_find_init() sb->ext_tree NULL ptr oops (Phillip Lougher) [712775 712776] {CVE-2011-2203}
 - [misc] kernel: plug taskstats io infoleak (Jerome Marchand) [716845 716846] {CVE-2011-2494}
 - [xen] passthrough: block VT-d MSI trap injection (Paolo Bonzini) [716301 716302] {CVE-2011-1898}

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-2011-1479.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68394

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-1479.nasl

Version: 1.17

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: 6.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-1898

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/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-2011-3363

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-274.12.1.0.1.el5debug

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: 11/30/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1162, CVE-2011-1898, CVE-2011-2203, CVE-2011-2494, CVE-2011-3363, CVE-2011-4110

BID: 48236, 48515, 49626, 50314, 50755, 50764

RHSA: 2011:1479