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Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2011-1350)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68364

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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-2011-1350 advisory.

 - Revert: [net] ipv6: make fragment identifications less predictable (Jiri Pirko) [723432 723433] {CVE-2011-2699}
 - [x86] perf, x86: Fix Intel fixed counters base initialization (Don Zickus) [719229 736284] {CVE-2011-2521}
 - [net] ipv6: make fragment identifications less predictable (Jiri Pirko) [723432 723433] {CVE-2011-2699}
 - [fs] Ecryptfs: Add mount option to check uid of device being mounted = expect uid (Eric Sandeen) [731175 731176] {CVE-2011-1833}
 - [char] tpm: Fix uninitialized usage of data buffer (Stanislaw Gruszka) [684674 684675] {CVE-2011-1160}
 - [kernel] perf: Fix software event overflow (Frantisek Hrbata) [730707 730708] {CVE-2011-2918}
 - [net] af_packet: prevent information leak (Jiri Pirko) [728032 728033] {CVE-2011-2898}
 - [net] gro: Only reset frag0 when skb can be pulled (Jiri Pirko) [726555 726556] {CVE-2011-2723}
 - [mm] avoid wrapping vm_pgoff in mremap() and stack expansion (Jerome Marchand) [716540 716541] {CVE-2011-2496}
 - [agp] fix arbitrary kernel memory writes (Jerome Marchand) [699307 699308] {CVE-2011-2022 CVE-2011-1745}
 - [agp] fix OOM and buffer overflow (Jerome Marchand) [699305 699306] {CVE-2011-1746}
 - [kernel] taskstats: don't allow duplicate entries in listener mode (Jerome Marchand) [715447 715448] {CVE-2011-2484}

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-2011-1350.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68364

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-1350.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 4/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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-2011-2022

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-2898

Vulnerability Information

CPE: 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: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: 10/5/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/14/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1160, CVE-2011-1745, CVE-2011-1746, CVE-2011-1833, CVE-2011-2022, CVE-2011-2484, CVE-2011-2496, CVE-2011-2521, CVE-2011-2723, CVE-2011-2898, CVE-2011-2918

BID: 46866, 47321, 47534, 47535, 47843, 48383, 48580, 48802, 48929, 48986, 49108, 49152

RHSA: 2011:1350