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Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2012-1540)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68663

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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-2012-1540 advisory.

 - [net] rds-ping cause kernel panic (Alexander Gordeev) [822755 822756] {CVE-2012-2372}
 - [xen] add guest address range checks to XENMEM_exchange handlers (Igor Mammedov) [878033 878034] {CVE-2012-5513}
 - [xen] x86/physmap: Prevent incorrect updates of m2p mappings (Igor Mammedov) [870148 870149] {CVE-2012-4537}
 - [xen] VCPU/timer: Dos vulnerability prev overflow in calculations (Igor Mammedov) [870150 870151] {CVE-2012-4535}
 - [fs] ext4: race-cond protect for convert_unwritten_extents_endio (Lukas Czerner) [869910 869911] {CVE-2012-4508}
 - [fs] ext4: serialize fallocate w/ ext4_convert_unwritten_extents (Lukas Czerner) [869910 869911] {CVE-2012-4508}
 - [fs] ext4: flush the i_completed_io_list during ext4_truncate (Lukas Czerner) [869910 869911] {CVE-2012-4508}
 - [net] ipv4: add RCU protection to inet->opt (Jiri Pirko) [872113 855302] {CVE-2012-3552}

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-2012-1540.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68663

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-1540.nasl

Version: 1.17

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: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-5513

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-3552

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-308.24.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-308.24.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-308.24.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-308.24.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-308.24.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-308.24.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-308.24.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-308.24.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/5/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/3/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2372, CVE-2012-3552, CVE-2012-4508, CVE-2012-4535, CVE-2012-4537, CVE-2012-5513

BID: 54062, 55359, 56238, 56498, 56797

RHSA: 2012:1540