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Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2015-0674)

high Nessus Plugin ID 81766

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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-2015-0674 advisory.

 - [infiniband] core: Prevent integer overflow in ib_umem_get address arithmetic (Doug Ledford) [1181173 1179327] {CVE-2014-8159}
 - [fs] splice: perform generic write checks (Eric Sandeen) [1163798 1155900] {CVE-2014-7822}
 - [virt] kvm: excessive pages un-pinning in kvm_iommu_map error path (Jacob Tanenbaum) [1156520 1156521] {CVE-2014-8369}
 - [net] netfilter: conntrack: disable generic tracking for known protocols (Daniel Borkmann) [1182071 1114697] {CVE-2014-8160}

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-2015-0674.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 81766

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-0674.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/12/2015

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-7822

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-8369

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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/11/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/25/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-7822, CVE-2014-8159, CVE-2014-8160, CVE-2014-8369

BID: 70749, 72061, 72347

RHSA: 2015:0674