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Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2017-3533)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 99159

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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-2017-3533 advisory.

 - Revert 'x86/mm: Expand the exception table logic to allow new handling options' (Brian Maly) [Orabug:
 25790387] {CVE-2016-9644}
 - Revert 'fix minor infoleak in get_user_ex()' (Brian Maly) [Orabug: 25790387] {CVE-2016-9644}
 - x86/mm: Expand the exception table logic to allow new handling options (Tony Luck) [Orabug: 25790387] {CVE-2016-9644}
 - net: ping: check minimum size on ICMP header length (Kees Cook) [Orabug: 25766898] {CVE-2016-8399} {CVE-2016-8399}
 - sg_write()/bsg_write() is not fit to be called under KERNEL_DS (Al Viro) [Orabug: 25765436] {CVE-2016-10088}
 - scsi: sg: check length passed to SG_NEXT_CMD_LEN (peter chang) [Orabug: 25751984] {CVE-2017-7187}
 - tty: n_hdlc: get rid of racy n_hdlc.tbuf (Alexander Popov) [Orabug: 25696677] {CVE-2017-2636}
 - TTY: n_hdlc, fix lockdep false positive (Jiri Slaby) [Orabug: 25696677] {CVE-2017-2636}
 - firewire: net: guard against rx buffer overflows (Stefan Richter) [Orabug: 25451520] {CVE-2016-8633}
 - usbnet: cleanup after bind() in probe() (Oliver Neukum) [Orabug: 25463898] {CVE-2016-3951}
 - cdc_ncm: do not call usbnet_link_change from cdc_ncm_bind (Bjorn Mork) [Orabug: 25463898] {CVE-2016-3951}
 - cdc_ncm: Add support for moving NDP to end of NCM frame (Enrico Mioso) [Orabug: 25463898] {CVE-2016-3951}
 - x86/mm/32: Enable full randomization on i386 and X86_32 (Hector Marco-Gisbert) [Orabug: 25463918] {CVE-2016-3672}
 - kvm: fix page struct leak in handle_vmon (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 25507133] {CVE-2017-2596}
 - crypto: mcryptd - Check mcryptd algorithm compatibility (tim) [Orabug: 25507153] {CVE-2016-10147}
 - kvm: nVMX: Allow L1 to intercept software exceptions (#BP and #OF) (Jim Mattson) [Orabug: 25507188] {CVE-2016-9588}
 - KVM: x86: drop error recovery in em_jmp_far and em_ret_far (Radim Krcmar) [Orabug: 25507213] {CVE-2016-9756}
 - tcp: take care of truncations done by sk_filter() (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 25507226] {CVE-2016-8645}
 - rose: limit sk_filter trim to payload (Willem de Bruijn) [Orabug: 25507226] {CVE-2016-8645}
 - tipc: check minimum bearer MTU (Michal Kubecek) [Orabug: 25507239] {CVE-2016-8632} {CVE-2016-8632}
 - fix minor infoleak in get_user_ex() (Al Viro) [Orabug: 25507269] {CVE-2016-9178}
 - scsi: arcmsr: Simplify user_len checking (Borislav Petkov) [Orabug: 25507319] {CVE-2016-7425}
 - scsi: arcmsr: Buffer overflow in arcmsr_iop_message_xfer() (Dan Carpenter) [Orabug: 25507319] {CVE-2016-7425}
 - tmpfs: clear S_ISGID when setting posix ACLs (Gu Zheng) [Orabug: 25507341] {CVE-2016-7097} {CVE-2016-7097}
 - posix_acl: Clear SGID bit when setting file permissions (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 25507341] {CVE-2016-7097} {CVE-2016-7097}
 - ext2: convert to mbcache2 (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 25512366] {CVE-2015-8952}
 - ext4: convert to mbcache2 (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 25512366] {CVE-2015-8952}
 - mbcache2: reimplement mbcache (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 25512366] {CVE-2015-8952}
 - USB: digi_acceleport: do sanity checking for the number of ports (Oliver Neukum) [Orabug: 25512466] {CVE-2016-3140}
 - net/llc: avoid BUG_ON() in skb_orphan() (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 25682419] {CVE-2017-6345}
 - ipv4: keep skb->dst around in presence of IP options (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 25698300] {CVE-2017-5970}
 - perf/core: Fix concurrent sys_perf_event_open() vs. 'move_group' race (Peter Zijlstra) [Orabug:
 25698751] {CVE-2017-6001}
 - ip6_gre: fix ip6gre_err() invalid reads (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 25699015] {CVE-2017-5897}

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-2017-3533.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 99159

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-3533.nasl

Version: 3.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/3/2017

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-6001

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-5897

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dtrace-modules-4.1.12-61.1.33.el7uek, 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:dtrace-modules-4.1.12-61.1.33.el6uek, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/31/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/4/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8952, CVE-2016-10088, CVE-2016-10147, CVE-2016-3140, CVE-2016-3672, CVE-2016-3951, CVE-2016-7097, CVE-2016-7425, CVE-2016-8399, CVE-2016-8632, CVE-2016-8633, CVE-2016-8645, CVE-2016-9178, CVE-2016-9588, CVE-2016-9756, CVE-2017-2596, CVE-2017-2636, CVE-2017-5897, CVE-2017-5970, CVE-2017-6001, CVE-2017-6345, CVE-2017-7187