Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2014-0475)

high Nessus Plugin ID 73936

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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-2014-0475 advisory.

- [scsi] AACRAID Driver compat IOCTL missing capability check (Jacob Tanenbaum) [1033533 1033534] {CVE-2013-6383}
- [net] netfilter: nf_conntrack_dccp: fix skb_header_pointer API usages (Jiri Pirko) [1077345 1077346] {CVE-2014-2523}
- [vhost] fix total length when packets are too short (Michael S. Tsirkin) [1064442 1064444] {CVE-2014-0077}
- [net] sctp: fix sctp_sf_do_5_1D_ce to verify if peer is AUTH capable (Daniel Borkmann) [1070715 1067451] {CVE-2014-0101}
- [vhost] validate vhost_get_vq_desc return value (Michael S. Tsirkin) [1062579 1058677] {CVE-2014-0055}

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 73936

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2014-0475.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Oracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/9/2014

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: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-2523

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-0077

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-abi-whitelists, 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: 5/7/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/30/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6383, CVE-2014-0077, CVE-2014-2523

BID: 63888, 65943, 66279, 66441, 66678

RHSA: 2014:0475

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