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Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2013-1166)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 69456

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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-2013-1166 advisory.

 - [net] af_key: fix info leaks in notify messages (Jiri Benc) [980999 981000] {CVE-2013-2234}
 - [net] af_key: initialize satype in key_notify_policy_flush() (Jiri Benc) [981222 981224] {CVE-2013-2237}
 - [net] ipv6: ip6_sk_dst_check() must not assume ipv6 dst (Jiri Pirko) [981556 981557] {CVE-2013-2232}
 - [net] fix invalid free in ip_cmsg_send() callers (Petr Matousek) [980141 980142] {CVE-2013-2224}
 - [block] cpqarray: info leak in ida_locked_ioctl() (Tomas Henzl) [971245 971246] {CVE-2013-2147}
 - [block] cdrom: use kzalloc() for failing hardware (Frantisek Hrbata) [973103 973104] {CVE-2013-2164}
 - [net] sctp: Disallow new connection on a closing socket (Daniel Borkmann) [976569 974936] {CVE-2013-2206}
 - [net] sctp: Use correct sideffect command in dup cookie handling (Daniel Borkmann) [976569 974936] {CVE-2013-2206}
 - [net] sctp: deal with multiple COOKIE_ECHO chunks (Daniel Borkmann) [976569 974936] {CVE-2013-2206}

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-2013-1166.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 69456

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-1166.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/23/2013

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-2224

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:H/I:N/A:N

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-2237

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-348.16.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-348.16.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-348.16.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-348.16.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-348.16.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-348.16.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-348.16.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-348.16.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug

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: 8/22/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/7/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2147, CVE-2013-2164, CVE-2013-2206, CVE-2013-2224, CVE-2013-2232, CVE-2013-2234, CVE-2013-2237

BID: 60280, 60375, 60715, 60858, 60874, 60893, 60953

RHSA: 2013:1166