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Oracle Linux 5 : glibc (ELSA-2015-0090)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 81044

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2015-0090 advisory.

 [2.5-123.0.1.el5_11.1]
 - Switch to use malloc when the input line is too long [Orabug 19951108]
 - Use a /sys/devices/system/cpu/online for _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN implementation [Orabug 17642251] (Joe Jin)

 [2.5-123.1]
 - Fix parsing of numeric hosts in gethostbyname_r (CVE-2015-0235, #1183532).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-2015-0090.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 81044

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-0090.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/28/2015

Updated: 11/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-0235

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.4

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:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nscd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-utils, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-devel

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: 1/27/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/28/2015

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Exim GHOST (glibc gethostbyname) Buffer Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0235

BID: 72325

RHSA: 2015:0090