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Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2016-3596)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 93148

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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-2016-3596 advisory.

 - KEYS: potential uninitialized variable (Dan Carpenter) [Orabug: 24402831] {CVE-2016-4470}
 - vfs: add vfs_select_inode() helper (Miklos Szeredi) [Orabug: 24009788] {CVE-2016-6198} {CVE-2016-6197}
 - vfs: rename: check backing inode being equal (Miklos Szeredi) [Orabug: 24009788] {CVE-2016-6198} {CVE-2016-6197}
 - ovl: verify upper dentry before unlink and rename (Miklos Szeredi) [Orabug: 24009788] {CVE-2016-6198} {CVE-2016-6197}
 - propogate_mnt: Handle the first propogated copy being a slave (Eric W. Biederman) [Orabug: 23276659] {CVE-2016-4581}
 - fs/pnode.c: treat zero mnt_group_id-s as unequal (Maxim Patlasov) [Orabug: 23276659] {CVE-2016-4581}
 - atl2: Disable unimplemented scatter/gather feature (Ben Hutchings) [Orabug: 23703754] {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-2016-3596.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 93148

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-3596.nasl

Version: 2.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/29/2016

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-8787

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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:dtrace-modules-4.1.12-61.1.6.el6uek, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dtrace-modules-4.1.12-61.1.6.el7uek, 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/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/26/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/27/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8785, CVE-2015-8787, CVE-2015-8816, CVE-2016-0723, CVE-2016-2069, CVE-2016-2847, CVE-2016-3156, CVE-2016-4581, CVE-2016-4805, CVE-2016-4913, CVE-2016-4951