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Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2016-2006)

high Nessus Plugin ID 93857

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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-2016-2006 advisory.

 - [net] tcp: make challenge acks less predictable (Florian Westphal) [1355606 1355607] {CVE-2016-5696}
 - [usbhid] hiddev: validate num_values for HIDIOCGUSAGES, HIDIOCSUSAGES commands (Yauheni Kaliuta) [1359999 1360008] {CVE-2016-5829}
 - [security] keys: potential uninitialized variable (Mateusz Guzik) [1345945 1345946] {CVE-2016-4470}

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-2016-2006.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 93857

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-2006.nasl

Version: 2.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/5/2016

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-2016-5829

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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: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/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/4/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/15/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4470, CVE-2016-5829

RHSA: 2016:2006