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Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2011-2033)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 68424

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-2033 advisory.

 - ipv6: make fragment identifications less predictable (Joe Jin) {CVE-2011-2699}
 - vlan: fix panic when handling priority tagged frames (Joe Jin) {CVE-2011-3593}
 - ipv6: udp: fix the wrong headroom check (Maxim Uvarov) {CVE-2011-4326}
 - b43: allocate receive buffers big enough for max frame len + offset (Maxim Uvarov) {CVE-2011-3359}
 - fuse: check size of FUSE_NOTIFY_INVAL_ENTRY message (Maxim Uvarov) {CVE-2011-3353}
 - cifs: fix possible memory corruption in CIFSFindNext (Maxim Uvarov) {CVE-2011-3191}
 - crypto: md5 - Add export support (Maxim Uvarov) {CVE-2011-2699}
 - fs/partitions/efi.c: corrupted GUID partition tables can cause kernel oops (Maxim Uvarov) {CVE-2011-1577}
 - net: Compute protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs using MD5. (Maxim Uvarov) {CVE-2011-3188}
 - crypto: Move md5_transform to lib/md5.c (Maxim Uvarov) {CVE-2011-3188}
 - perf tools: do not look at ./config for configuration (Maxim Uvarov) {CVE-2011-2905}
 - Make TASKSTATS require root access (Maxim Uvarov) {CVE-2011-2494}
 - TPM: Zero buffer after copying to userspace (Maxim Uvarov) {CVE-2011-1162}
 - TPM: Call tpm_transmit with correct size (Maxim Uvarov){CVE-2011-1161}

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-2011-2033.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 68424

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-2033.nasl

Version: 1.20

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: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-3191

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-3188

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-headers, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-devel, 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:ofa-2.6.32-200.23.1.el6uekdebug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ofa-2.6.32-200.23.1.el5uekdebug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-firmware, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ofa-2.6.32-200.23.1.el6uek, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ofa-2.6.32-200.23.1.el5uek, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/25/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/13/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1162, CVE-2011-1577, CVE-2011-2494, CVE-2011-2699, CVE-2011-3188, CVE-2011-3191, CVE-2011-3353, CVE-2011-3593, CVE-2011-4326