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Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2014-0926)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 76856

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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-2014-0926 advisory.

 - [infiniband] rds: do not deref NULL dev in rds_iw_laddr_check() (Jacob Tanenbaum) [1093311 1093312] {CVE-2014-2678}
 - [xen] page-alloc: scrub anonymous domain heap pages upon freeing (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1103648 1103649] {CVE-2014-4021}

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-2014-0926.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 76856

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2014-0926.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/27/2014

Updated: 11/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.7

Temporal Score: 2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-4021

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-371.11.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-371.11.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-371.11.1.el5debug, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-371.11.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-371.11.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-371.11.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-371.11.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-371.11.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel

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: 7/25/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/1/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-2678, CVE-2014-4021

BID: 66543, 68070

RHSA: 2014:0926