Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2015-0087)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 81065

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-2015-0087 advisory.

- [x86] traps: stop using IST for #SS (Petr Matousek) [1172810 1172811] {CVE-2014-9322}
- [net] sctp: fix NULL pointer dereference in af->from_addr_param on malformed packet (Daniel Borkmann) [1163090 1153980] {CVE-2014-7841}
- [alsa] control: Make sure that id->index does not overflow (Jacob Tanenbaum) [1149140 1117312] {CVE-2014-4656}
- [alsa] control: Handle numid overflow (Jacob Tanenbaum) [1149140 1117312] {CVE-2014-4656}

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-2015-0087.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 81065

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-0087.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/29/2015

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-4656

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:N/I:N/A:H

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-7841

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: 1/28/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/3/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-4656, CVE-2014-7841

BID: 68163, 71081, 71685

RHSA: 2015:0087