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Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2016-0855)

high Nessus Plugin ID 91210

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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-2016-0855 advisory.

 - [x86] kernel: espfix not working for 32-bit KVM paravirt guests (Jacob Tanenbaum) [1172767] {CVE-2014-8134}
 - [x86] nmi/64: Fix a paravirt stack-clobbering bug in the NMI code (Denys Vlasenko) [1259581] {CVE-2015-5157}
 - [x86] nmi/64: Switch stacks on userspace NMI entry (Denys Vlasenko) [1259581] {CVE-2015-5157}
 - [net] unix: correctly track in-flight fds in sending process user_struct (Hannes Frederic Sowa) [1313052] {CVE-2016-2550}
 - [net] sctp: Prevent soft lockup when sctp_accept() is called during a timeout event (Jacob Tanenbaum) [1297422] {CVE-2015-8767}
 - [virt] kvm: x86: Dont report guest userspace emulation error to userspace (Bandan Das) [1163764] {CVE-2010-5313 CVE-2014-7842}
 - [virt] kvm: inject #UD if instruction emulation fails and exit to userspace (Bandan Das) [1163764] {CVE-2010-5313 CVE-2014-7842}
 - [fs] pipe: fix offset and len mismatch on pipe_iov_copy_to_user failure (Seth Jennings) [1302223] {CVE-2016-0774}

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-2016-0855.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 91210

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-0855.nasl

Version: 2.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/18/2016

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-2015-8543

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

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

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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/16/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/29/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-5313, CVE-2013-4312, CVE-2014-7842, CVE-2014-8134, CVE-2015-5156, CVE-2015-7509, CVE-2015-8215, CVE-2015-8324, CVE-2015-8543

RHSA: 2016:0855