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Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2015-2152)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 87090

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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-2015-2152 advisory.

 - [kernel] Initialize msg/shm IPC objects before doing ipc_addid() (Lennert Buytenhek) [1271507] {CVE-2015-7613}
 - [fs] vfs: Test for and handle paths that are unreachable from their mnt_root ('Eric W. Biederman') [1209371] {CVE-2015-2925}
 - [fs] dcache: Handle escaped paths in prepend_path ('Eric W. Biederman') [1209371] {CVE-2015-2925}
 - [net] sctp: fix race on protocol/netns initialization (Marcelo Leitner) [1251807] {CVE-2015-5283}

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-2015-2152.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 87090

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-2152.nasl

Version: 2.31

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/30/2015

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: 5.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-7613

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:H/A:N

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-7837

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/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/24/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/24/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-5313, CVE-2013-7421, CVE-2014-3647, CVE-2014-7842, CVE-2014-8171, CVE-2014-9419, CVE-2014-9644, CVE-2015-0239, CVE-2015-2925, CVE-2015-3339, CVE-2015-4170, CVE-2015-5283, CVE-2015-6526, CVE-2015-7613, CVE-2015-7837

RHSA: 2015:2152