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Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2015-1137)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 84352

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-1137 advisory.

 - [fs] pipe: fix pipe corruption and iovec overrun on partial copy (Seth Jennings) [1202861 1198843] {CVE-2015-1805}
 - [x86] kernel: Remove a bogus 'ret_from_fork' optimization (Mateusz Guzik) [1209234 1209235] {CVE-2015-2830}
 - [x86] mm: Linux stack ASLR implementation (Jacob Tanenbaum) [1195684 1195685] {CVE-2015-1593}
 - [net] netfilter: nf_tables: fix flush ruleset chain dependencies (Jiri Pirko) [1192880 1192881] {CVE-2015-1573}
 - [fs] isofs: Fix unchecked printing of ER records (Mateusz Guzik) [1180482 1180483] {CVE-2014-9584}
 - [security] keys: memory corruption or panic during key garbage collection (Jacob Tanenbaum) [1179851 1179852] {CVE-2014-9529}
 - [fs] isofs: infinite loop in CE record entries (Jacob Tanenbaum) [1175246 1175248] {CVE-2014-9420}
 - [x86] crypto: aesni - fix memory usage in GCM decryption (Kurt Stutsman) [1213331 1212178] {CVE-2015-3331}

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-2015-1137.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 84352

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-1137.nasl

Version: 2.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/24/2015

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1805

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5.3

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:H/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1573

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-abi-whitelists, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools-libs-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perf, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-tools, 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

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/23/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/17/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9420, CVE-2014-9529, CVE-2014-9584, CVE-2015-1573, CVE-2015-1593, CVE-2015-1805, CVE-2015-2830

BID: 71717, 71880, 71883, 72552, 72607, 73699, 74235, 74951

RHSA: 2015:1137