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Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2012-1061)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68574

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2012-1061 advisory.

 - [xen] x86_64: check address on trap handlers or guest callbacks (Paolo Bonzini) [813430 813431] {CVE-2012-0217}
 - [xen] x86_64: Do not execute sysret with a non-canonical return address (Paolo Bonzini) [813430 813431] {CVE-2012-0217}
 - [xen] x86: prevent hv boot on AMD CPUs with Erratum 121 (Laszlo Ersek) [824969 824970] {CVE-2012-2934}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-2012-1061.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68574

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-1061.nasl

Version: 1.16

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: 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-2012-3375

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-xen, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-308.11.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-308.11.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-308.11.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-308.11.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-308.11.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-308.11.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-308.11.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-308.11.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/11/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/3/2012

Exploitable With

Metasploit (FreeBSD Intel SYSRET Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3375

BID: 46630, 53856, 53961, 54283

RHSA: 2012:1061