Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : kernel-uek (ELSA-2016-3587)

high Nessus Plugin ID 92656

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-3587 advisory.

- vfs: rename: check backing inode being equal (Miklos Szeredi) [Orabug: 24010060] {CVE-2016-6198} {CVE-2016-6197}
- vfs: add vfs_select_inode() helper (Miklos Szeredi) [Orabug: 24010060] {CVE-2016-6198} {CVE-2016-6197}
- ovl: verify upper dentry before unlink and rename (Miklos Szeredi) [Orabug: 24010060] {CVE-2016-6198} {CVE-2016-6197}
- ovl: fix getcwd() failure after unsuccessful rmdir (Rui Wang) [Orabug: 24010060] {CVE-2016-6198} {CVE-2016-6197}
- atl2: Disable unimplemented scatter/gather feature (Ben Hutchings) [Orabug: 23704078] {CVE-2016-2117}

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-2016-3587.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 92656

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-3587.nasl

Version: 2.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/1/2016

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-2117

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dtrace-modules-4.1.12-37.6.1.el7uek, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dtrace-modules-4.1.12-37.6.1.el6uek, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-firmware, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek, 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: 7/29/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/16/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2117, CVE-2016-6197, CVE-2016-6198