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Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2015-3012)

low Nessus Plugin ID 81966

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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-2015-3012 advisory.

 - ttusb-dec: buffer overflow in ioctl (Dan Carpenter) [Orabug: 20673373] {CVE-2014-8884}
 - mm: Fix NULL pointer dereference in madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) support (Kirill A. Shutemov) [Orabug:
 20673279] {CVE-2014-8173}
 - netfilter: conntrack: disable generic tracking for known protocols (Florian Westphal) [Orabug:
 20673235] {CVE-2014-8160}
 - crypto: add missing crypto module aliases (Mathias Krause) [Orabug: 20429934] {CVE-2013-7421}
 - crypto: include crypto- module prefix in template (Kees Cook) [Orabug: 20429934] {CVE-2014-9644}
 - crypto: prefix module autoloading with 'crypto-' (Kees Cook) [Orabug: 20429934] {CVE-2013-7421}

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-2015-3012.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 81966

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-3012.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/20/2015

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: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-9644

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 3

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-8134

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dtrace-modules-3.8.13-68.el6uek, 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:dtrace-modules-3.8.13-68.el7uek, 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: 3/19/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/8/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-7421, CVE-2014-3610, CVE-2014-7975, CVE-2014-8133, CVE-2014-8134, CVE-2014-9644

BID: 67985, 68163, 68170, 69396, 69428, 69489, 69763, 69770, 69799, 70314, 70319, 70742, 70768, 70971, 71097, 71250, 71650, 71684, 71685, 72061, 72320, 72322, 73133