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Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2011-2010)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68414

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-2010 advisory.

 - [block] check for proper length of iov entries earlier in blk_rq_map_user_iov (Xiaotian Feng) {CVE-2010-4668}
 - scm: lower SCM_MAX_FD (Eric Dumazet) {CVE-2010-4249}
 - perf_events: Fix perf_counter_mmap() hook in mprotect() (Pekka Enberg) {CVE-2010-4169}
 - tcp: Increase TCP_MAXSEG socket option minimum (David S. Miller) {CVE-2010-4165}

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-2011-2010.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68414

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-2010.nasl

Version: 1.20

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: 6.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-4249

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-headers, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ofa-2.6.32-100.28.9.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-firmware, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ofa-2.6.32-100.28.9.el5debug, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/16/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/9/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-4165, CVE-2010-4169, CVE-2010-4249, CVE-2010-4668