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Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2013-1173)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 69492

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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-2013-1173 advisory.

 - [x86] perf/x86: Fix offcore_rsp valid mask for SNB/IVB (Nikola Pajkovsky) [971314 971315] {CVE-2013-2146}
 - [bluetooth] L2CAP - Fix info leak via getsockname() (Jacob Tanenbaum) [922417 922418] {CVE-2012-6544}
 - [bluetooth] HCI - Fix info leak in getsockopt() (Jacob Tanenbaum) [922417 922418] {CVE-2012-6544}
 - [net] af_key: initialize satype in key_notify_policy_flush() (Thomas Graf) [981225 981227] {CVE-2013-2237}
 - [net] ipv4: fix invalid free in ip_cmsg_send() callers (Petr Matousek) [980144 979788] {CVE-2013-2224}
 - [net] sctp: Use correct sideffect command in duplicate cookie handling (Daniel Borkmann) [976571 963843] {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-2013-1173.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 69492

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-1173.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/28/2013

Updated: 10/22/2024

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: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: 8/27/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-6544, CVE-2013-2146, CVE-2013-2206, CVE-2013-2224, CVE-2013-2232, CVE-2013-2237

BID: 58990, 60324, 60715, 60858, 60893, 60953

RHSA: 2013:1173