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Oracle Linux 7 : glibc (ELSA-2015-2172)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 87091

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2015-2172 advisory.

 [2.17-106.0.1.1]
 - Remove strstr and strcasestr implementations using sse4.2 instructions.
 - Upstream commits 584b18eb4df61ccd447db2dfe8c8a7901f8c8598 and 1818483b15d22016b0eae41d37ee91cc87b37510 backported.

 [2.17-106.1]
 - Rebuild with corrected release.

 [2.17-106]
 - Add fix for CVE-2015-5277 (#1275920).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-2015-2172.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 87091

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-2172.nasl

Version: 2.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/30/2015

Updated: 11/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5277

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nscd, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-utils, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-static, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/25/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/17/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5277

RHSA: 2015:2172