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Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2013-1051)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68920

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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-2013-1051 advisory.

 - [wireless] b43: stop format string leaking into error msgs (John Linville) [971387 971389] {CVE-2013-2852}
 - [net] rtnl: fix info leak on RTM_GETLINK request for VF devices (Flavio Leitner) [923657 923659] {CVE-2013-2634 CVE-2013-2635}
 - [net] dcbnl: fix various netlink info leaks (Flavio Leitner) [923657 923659] {CVE-2013-2634 CVE-2013-2635}
 - [net] tcp: Fix oops from tcp_collapse() when using splice() (Nikola Pajkovsky) [968871 863512] {CVE-2013-2128}
 - [net] bluetooth/rfcomm: Fix missing msg_namelen update in rfcomm_sock_recvmsg() (Weiping Pan) [955653 955654] {CVE-2013-3225}
 - [net] bluetooth: fix possible info leak in bt_sock_recvmsg() (Radomir Vrbovsky) [955603 955604] {CVE-2013-3224}
 - [fs] udf: avoid info leak on export (Nikola Pajkovsky) [922354 922355] {CVE-2012-6548}
 - [kernel] tracing: Fix possible NULL pointer dereferences (Weiping Pan) [952212 952213] {CVE-2013-3301}
 - [kernel] tracing: Fix panic when lseek() called on 'trace' opened for writing (Weiping Pan) [952212 952213] {CVE-2013-3301}
 - [net] atm: update msg_namelen in vcc_recvmsg() (Nikola Pajkovsky) [955224 955225] {CVE-2013-3222}
 - [fs] ext3: Fix format string issues (Nikola Pajkovsky) [920784 920785] {CVE-2013-1848}
 - [kernel] signal: always clear sa_restorer on execve (Nikola Pajkovsky) [920505 920506] {CVE-2013-0914}

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-2013-1051.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68920

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-1051.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/17/2013

Updated: 4/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-3301

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-2128

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: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/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/16/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-6548, CVE-2013-0914, CVE-2013-1848, CVE-2013-2128, CVE-2013-2634, CVE-2013-2635, CVE-2013-2852, CVE-2013-3222, CVE-2013-3224, CVE-2013-3225, CVE-2013-3301

BID: 58426, 58597, 58600, 58994, 59055, 59377, 59383, 59385, 60214, 60410

RHSA: 2013:1051