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Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2012-1426)

high Nessus Plugin ID 68651

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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-2012-1426 advisory.

 - [mm] hugetlb: do not use vma_hugecache_offset() for vma_prio_tree_foreach (Frederic Weisbecker) [843034 843035] {CVE-2012-2133}
 - [mm] hugepages: fix use after free bug in 'quota' handling (Frederic Weisbecker) [843034 843035] {CVE-2012-2133}
 - [mm] hugetlb: fix pgoff computation when unmapping page from vma (Frederic Weisbecker) [843034 843035] {CVE-2012-2133}
 - [mm] hugetlb: fix ENOSPC returned by handle_mm_fault() (Frederic Weisbecker) [843034 843035] {CVE-2012-2133}
 - [mm] x86_32: fix SHLIB_BASE address typo (Aristeu S. Rozanski F) [804955 804956] {CVE-2012-1568}
 - [mm] x86_32: randomize SHLIB_BASE (Aristeu Rozanski) [804955 804956] {CVE-2012-1568}
 - [mm] Hold a file reference in madvise_remove (Jerome Marchand) [849738 849739] {CVE-2012-3511}
 - [fs] udf: fix retun value on error path in udf_load_logicalvol (Nikola Pajkovsky) [843142 843143] {CVE-2012-3400}
 - [fs] udf: Improve table length check to avoid possible overflow (Nikola Pajkovsky) [843142 843143] {CVE-2012-3400}
 - [fs] udf: Fortify loading of sparing table (Nikola Pajkovsky) [843142 843143] {CVE-2012-3400}
 - [fs] udf: Avoid run away loop when partition table length is corrupted (Nikola Pajkovsky) [843142 843143] {CVE-2012-3400}
 - [fs] udf: Use 'ret' instead of abusing 'i' in udf_load_logicalvol() (Nikola Pajkovsky) [843142 843143] {CVE-2012-3400}

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-2012-1426.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 68651

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-1426.nasl

Version: 1.15

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-3400

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-2133

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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/6/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/22/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1568, CVE-2012-2133, CVE-2012-3400, CVE-2012-3511

BID: 52687, 53233, 54279, 55151

RHSA: 2012:1426