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Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2013-1292)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70187

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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-2013-1292 advisory.

 - [kernel] signals: stop info leak via tkill and tgkill syscalls (Oleg Nesterov) [970874 970875] {CVE-2013-2141}
 - [net] ipv6: do udp_push_pending_frames AF_INET sock pending data (Jiri Benc) [987647 987648] {CVE-2013-4162}
 - [mm] use-after-free in madvise_remove() (Jacob Tanenbaum) [849735 849736] {CVE-2012-3511}

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-2013-1292.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 70187

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-1292.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/28/2013

Updated: 11/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-3511

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-2013-2141

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-348.18.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-348.18.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-348.18.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-348.18.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-348.18.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-348.18.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-348.18.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-348.18.1.el5debug, 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/27/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/3/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3511, CVE-2013-2141, CVE-2013-4162

BID: 55151, 60254, 61411

RHSA: 2013:1292