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Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2012-0107)

high Nessus Plugin ID 68454

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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-2012-0107 advisory.

 - [misc] Move exit_robust_list to mm_release, null lists on cleanup (Laszlo Ersek) [771774 750283] {CVE-2012-0028}
 - [scsi] fix 32-on-64 block device ioctls (Paolo Bonzini) [752385 752386] {CVE-2011-4127}
 - [dm] do not forward ioctls from logical volumes to the underlying device (Paolo Bonzini) [752385 752386] {CVE-2011-4127}
 - [block] fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices (Paolo Bonzini) [752385 752386] {CVE-2011-4127}
 - [block] add and use scsi_blk_cmd_ioctl (Paolo Bonzini) [752385 752386] {CVE-2011-4127}
 - [fs] ext4: fix BUG_ON() in ext4_ext_insert_extent() (Lukas Czerner) [747943 747946] {CVE-2011-3638}
 - [fs] jbd2: clear BH_Delay & BH_Unwritten in journal_unmap_buffer (Eric Sandeen) [783477 783284] {CVE-2011-4086}

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-2012-0107.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 68454

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-0107.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: 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: 6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0028

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0207

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/17/2012

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3638, CVE-2011-4086, CVE-2011-4127, CVE-2012-0028, CVE-2012-0207

BID: 50322, 51176, 51343, 51945, 51947

RHSA: 2012:0107