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Oracle Linux 6 : file (ELSA-2016-0760)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 91149

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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-2016-0760 advisory.

 - fix CVE-2014-3538 (unrestricted regular expression matching)
 - fix CVE-2014-3587 (incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571)
 - fix CVE-2014-3710 (out-of-bounds read in elf note headers)
 - fix CVE-2014-8116 (multiple DoS issues (resource consumption))
 - fix CVE-2014-8117 (denial of service issue (resource consumption))
 - fix CVE-2014-9620 (limit the number of ELF notes processed)
 - fix CVE-2014-9653 (malformed elf file causes access to uninitialized memory)

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-2016-0760.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 91149

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-0760.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/16/2016

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-9653

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3710

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:file-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:file, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:file-static, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python-magic, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:file-libs, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/3/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3538, CVE-2014-3587, CVE-2014-3710, CVE-2014-8116, CVE-2014-8117, CVE-2014-9620, CVE-2014-9653

RHSA: 2016:0760