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Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2015-1221)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 84757

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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-2015-1221 advisory.

 - [fs] pipe: fix pipe corruption and iovec overrun on partial copy (Seth Jennings) [1202860 1185166] {CVE-2015-1805}
 - [net] ipv4: Missing sk_nulls_node_init in ping_unhash (Denys Vlasenko) [1218102 1218103] {CVE-2015-3636}
 - [x86] asm/entry/64: Remove a bogus 'ret_from_fork' optimization (Mateusz Guzik) [1209232 1209233] {CVE-2015-2830}
 - [x86] mm: Linux stack ASLR implementation (Jacob Tanenbaum) [1195682 1195683] {CVE-2015-1593}

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-2015-1221.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 84757

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-1221.nasl

Version: 2.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/15/2015

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1593

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-5321

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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/14/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/13/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-5321, CVE-2015-1593, CVE-2015-2830, CVE-2015-2922, CVE-2015-3636

BID: 74951

RHSA: 2015:1221