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Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2016-0715)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 90880

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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-2016-0715 advisory.

 - [x86] nmi/64: Fix a paravirt stack-clobbering bug in the NMI code (Denys Vlasenko) [1259580 1259581] {CVE-2015-5157}
 - [x86] nmi/64: Switch stacks on userspace NMI entry (Denys Vlasenko) [1259580 1259581] {CVE-2015-5157}
 - [net] sctp: Prevent soft lockup when sctp_accept() is called during a timeout event (Jacob Tanenbaum) [1297421 1297422] {CVE-2015-8767}

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-2016-0715.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 90880

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-0715.nasl

Version: 2.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/4/2016

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5157

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-8767

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: 5/3/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/23/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5157, CVE-2015-8767

RHSA: 2016:0715