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Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2012-0481)

high Nessus Plugin ID 68515

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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-2012-0481 advisory.

 - Revert: [fs] NFSv4: include bitmap in nfsv4 get acl data (Sachin Prabhu) [753231 753232] {CVE-2011-4131}
 - [kernel] regset: Return -EFAULT, not -EIO, on host-side memory fault (Jerome Marchand) [799212 799213] {CVE-2012-1097}
 - [kernel] regset: Prevent null pointer reference on readonly regsets (Jerome Marchand) [799212 799213] {CVE-2012-1097}
 - [block] Fix io_context leak after failure of clone with CLONE_IO (Vivek Goyal) [796846 791125] {CVE-2012-0879}
 - [block] Fix io_context leak after clone with CLONE_IO (Vivek Goyal) [796846 791125] {CVE-2012-0879}
 - [fs] cifs: fix dentry refcount leak when opening a FIFO on lookup (Sachin Prabhu) [798298 781893] {CVE-2012-1090}
 - [fs] NFSv4: include bitmap in nfsv4 get acl data (Sachin Prabhu) [753231 753232] {CVE-2011-4131}

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-2012-0481.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 68515

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-0481.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-1097

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

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:python-perf, 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/local_checks_enabled, Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/17/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/23/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0879, CVE-2012-1090, CVE-2012-1097

BID: 52152, 52197, 52274

RHSA: 2012:0481