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Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2012-0862)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68554

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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-2012-0862 advisory.

 - [security] fix compile error in commoncap.c (Eric Paris) [806726] {CVE-2012-2123}
 - [security] fcaps: clear the same personality flags as suid when fcaps are used (Eric Paris) [806726] {CVE-2012-2123}
 - [net] rds: fix rds-ping inducing kernel panic (Jay Fenlason) [803936] {CVE-2012-2372}
 - [net] sock: validate data_len before allocating skb in sock_alloc_send_pskb() (Jason Wang) [814504] {CVE-2012-2136}
 - [virt] kvm: Fix buffer overflow in kvm_set_irq() (Avi Kivity) [816155] {CVE-2012-2137}
 - [mm] read_pmd_atomic: fix pmd_populate SMP race condition (Andrea Arcangeli) [820762] {CVE-2012-1179}
 - [vhost] net: fix possible NULL pointer dereference of vq->bufs (Jason Wang) [814288] {CVE-2012-2119}
 - [net] macvtap: validate zerocopy vectors before building skb (Jason Wang) [814288] {CVE-2012-2119}
 - [net] macvtap: set SKBTX_DEV_ZEROCOPY only when skb is built successfully (Jason Wang) [814288] {CVE-2012-2119}
 - [net] macvtap: put zerocopy page when fail to get all requested user pages (Jason Wang) [814288] {CVE-2012-2119}
 - [net] macvtap: fix zerocopy offset calculation when building skb (Jason Wang) [814288] {CVE-2012-2119}
 - [virt] kvm: unmap pages from the iommu when slots are removed (Alex Williamson) [811653] {CVE-2012-2121}
 - [virt] VMX: vmx_set_cr0 expects kvm->srcu locked (Marcelo Tosatti) [807507] {CVE-2012-1601}
 - [virt] KVM: Ensure all vcpus are consistent with in-kernel irqchip settings (Marcelo Tosatti) [807507] {CVE-2012-1601}
 - [fs] epoll: kabi fixups for epoll limit wakeup paths (Jason Baron) [681689] {CVE-2011-1083}
 - [fs] epoll: limit paths (Jason Baron) [681689] {CVE-2011-1083}
 - [fs] jbd2: clear BH_Delay & BH_Unwritten in journal_unmap_buffer (Eric Sandeen) [748713] {CVE-2011-4086}
 - [dm] fixing test for NULL pointer testing (Paolo Bonzini) [752380] {CVE-2011-4127}
 - [dm] do not forward ioctls from logical volumes to the underlying device (Paolo Bonzini) [752380] {CVE-2011-4127}
 - [block] fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices (Paolo Bonzini) [752380] {CVE-2011-4127}
 - [block] add and use scsi_blk_cmd_ioctl (Paolo Bonzini) [752380] {CVE-2011-4127}
 - [kernel] regset: Return -EFAULT, not -EIO, on host-side memory fault (Jerome Marchand) [799213] {CVE-2012-1097}
 - [kernel] regset: Prevent null pointer reference on readonly regsets (Jerome Marchand) [799213] {CVE-2012-1097}

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-2012-0862.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68554

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-0862.nasl

Version: 1.16

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-1083

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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:P/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/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/27/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1083, CVE-2011-4131

BID: 46630, 50366, 50655, 50984, 51176, 51343, 51389, 51625, 51945, 52152, 52274, 52533, 53162, 53165, 53166, 53488, 53721, 54062, 54063

RHSA: 2012:0862