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Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2015-3032)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83045

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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-2015-3032 advisory.

 - isofs: Fix unchecked printing of ER records (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 20930551] {CVE-2014-9584}
 - KEYS: close race between key lookup and freeing (Sasha Levin) [Orabug: 20930548] {CVE-2014-9529} {CVE-2014-9529}
 - mm: memcg: do not allow task about to OOM kill to bypass the limit (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] {CVE-2014-8171}
 - mm: memcg: do not declare OOM from __GFP_NOFAIL allocations (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] {CVE-2014-8171}
 - fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop into the allocator (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] {CVE-2014-8171}
 - mm: memcg: handle non-error OOM situations more gracefully (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] {CVE-2014-8171}
 - mm: memcg: do not trap chargers with full callstack on OOM (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] {CVE-2014-8171}
 - mm: memcg: rework and document OOM waiting and wakeup (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] {CVE-2014-8171}
 - mm: memcg: enable memcg OOM killer only for user faults (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] {CVE-2014-8171}
 - x86: finish user fault error path with fatal signal (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] {CVE-2014-8171}
 - arch: mm: pass userspace fault flag to generic fault handler (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] {CVE-2014-8171}

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-2015-3032.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83045

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-3032.nasl

Version: 2.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/24/2015

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-9529

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-8171

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-devel, 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-3.8.13-68.1.3.el6uek, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-firmware, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dtrace-modules-3.8.13-68.1.3.el7uek

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: 4/23/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/8/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3215, CVE-2014-8171, CVE-2014-9529, CVE-2014-9584

BID: 71880, 74293