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Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2015-3014)

high Nessus Plugin ID 81872

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-3014 advisory.

 - kvm: fix excessive pages un-pinning in kvm_iommu_map error path. (Quentin Casasnovas) [Orabug:
 20687314] {CVE-2014-3601} {CVE-2014-8369} {CVE-2014-3601}
 - Revert 'mm: Fix NULL pointer dereference in madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) support' (Guangyu Sun) [Orabug:
 20673281] {CVE-2014-8173}
 - netfilter: conntrack: disable generic tracking for known protocols (Florian Westphal) [Orabug:
 20679630] {CVE-2014-8160}
 - mac80211: fix fragmentation code, particularly for encryption (Johannes Berg) [Orabug: 20673313] {CVE-2014-8709}
 - mm: Fix NULL pointer dereference in madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) support (Kirill A. Shutemov) [Orabug:
 20673282] {CVE-2014-8173}
 - tracing/syscalls: Ignore numbers outside NR_syscalls' range (Rabin Vincent) [Orabug: 20673164] {CVE-2014-7825} {CVE-2014-7826}
 - tracing/syscalls: Fix perf syscall tracing when syscall_nr == -1 (Will Deacon) [Orabug: 20673164] {CVE-2014-7825} {CVE-2014-7826}

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-2015-3014.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 81872

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-3014.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/17/2015

Updated: 11/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2014-7826

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: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-devel, 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/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/25/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-7825, CVE-2014-7826, CVE-2014-8160, CVE-2014-8369, CVE-2014-8709

BID: 69489, 70747, 70749, 70965, 70971, 70972, 72061