Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2014-3096)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79735

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-3096 advisory.

- net: sctp: fix panic on duplicate ASCONF chunks (Daniel Borkmann) [Orabug: 19953088] {CVE-2014-3687}
- net: sctp: fix skb_over_panic when receiving malformed ASCONF chunks (Daniel Borkmann) [Orabug:
19953087] {CVE-2014-3673}
- kvm: vmx: handle invvpid vm exit gracefully (Petr Matousek) [Orabug: 19906290] {CVE-2014-3646}
- nEPT: Nested INVEPT (Nadav Har'El) [Orabug: 19905739] {CVE-2014-3645}
- KVM: x86: Improve thread safety in pit (Andy Honig) [Orabug: 19905575] {CVE-2014-3611}

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: Medium

ID: 79735

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2014-3096.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Oracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 12/5/2014

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-4014

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5.3

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:H/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-1739

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dtrace-modules-3.8.13-55.el6uek, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dtrace-modules-3.8.13-55.el7uek, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-firmware, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/4/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/28/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1739, CVE-2014-3184, CVE-2014-4014, CVE-2014-4171

BID: 67988, 68048, 68157, 68162, 68164, 69489, 69721, 69768, 69779, 69781, 70743, 70745, 70746, 70766, 70883

Detections

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