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Oracle Linux 7 : sos (ELSA-2016-0188)

high Nessus Plugin ID 88779

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2016-0188 advisory.

 [3.2-35.0.1.3]
 - Recreated patch for [orabug 18913115]
 - Make the selinux plugin fixfiles option useful (John Haxby) [orabug 18913115]
 - Added remove_gpgstring.patch [Bug 18313898]
 - Added sos-oracle-enterprise.patch
 - Added sos-oraclelinux-vendor-vendorurl.patch

 [= 3.2-37]
 - [sosreport] prepare report in a private subdirectory (updated) Resolves: bz1290954

 [= 3.2-35.2]
 - [sosreport] prepare report in a private subdirectory (updated) Resolves: bz1290954

 [= 3.2-35.1]
 - [ceph] collect /var/lib/ceph and /var/run/ceph Resolves: bz1291347
 - [sosreport] prepare report in a private subdirectory Resolves: bz1290954

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 sos package.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-0188.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 88779

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-0188.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/17/2016

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-7529

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sos, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7

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: 2/16/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/6/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7529

RHSA: 2016:0188