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Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (ELSA-2013-2546)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 69942

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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-2013-2546 advisory.

 - sctp: deal with multiple COOKIE_ECHO chunks (Max Matveev) [Orabug: 17371930] {CVE-2013-2206}
 - Bluetooth: L2CAP - Fix info leak via getsockname() (Mathias Krause) [Orabug: 17371037] {CVE-2012-6544}
 - Bluetooth: HCI - Fix info leak via getsockname() (Mathias Krause) [Orabug: 17370887] {CVE-2012-6544}
 - Bluetooth: HCI - Fix info leak in getsockopt(HCI_FILTER) (Mathias Krause) [Orabug: 17371061] {CVE-2012-6544}
 - sctp: Use correct sideffect command in duplicate cookie handling (Vlad Yasevich) [Orabug: 17371114] {CVE-2013-2206}
 - af_key: initialize satype in key_notify_policy_flush() (Nicolas Dichtel) [Orabug: 17370761] {CVE-2013-2237}
 - net: fix incorrect credentials passing (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 16836975] {CVE-2013-1979}
 - tg3: fix length overflow in VPD firmware parsing (Kees Cook) [Orabug: 16836958] {CVE-2013-1929}
 - USB: cdc-wdm: fix buffer overflow (Oliver Neukum) [Orabug: 16836943] {CVE-2013-1860}
 - ext3: Fix format string issues (Lars-Peter Clausen) [Orabug: 16836934] {CVE-2013-1848}
 - perf: Treat attr.config as u64 in perf_swevent_init() (Tommi Rantala) [Orabug: 16808734] {CVE-2013-2094}
 - ipv6: ip6_append_data_mtu did not care about pmtudisc and frag_size (Hannes Frederic Sowa) [Orabug:
 17296421] {CVE-2013-4163}
 - af_key: fix info leaks in notify messages (Mathias Krause) [Orabug: 17237752] {CVE-2013-2234}
 - drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: use kzalloc() for failing hardware (Jonathan Salwan) [Orabug: 17230700] {CVE-2013-2164}
 - ipv6: ip6_sk_dst_check() must not assume ipv6 dst (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 17215196] {CVE-2013-2232}
 - block: do not pass disk names as format strings (Kees Cook) [Orabug: 17230067] {CVE-2013-2851}
 - libceph: Fix NULL pointer dereference in auth client code (Tyler Hicks) [Orabug: 17230100] {CVE-2013-1059}
 - xen/blkback: Check device permissions before allowing OP_DISCARD (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk) {CVE-2013-2140}
 - xen/blkback: Check device permissions before allowing OP_DISCARD (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk) {CVE-2013-2140}
 - dcbnl: fix various netlink info leaks (Mathias Krause) [Orabug: 17024912] {CVE-2013-2634}
 - b43: stop format string leaking into error msgs (Kees Cook) [Orabug: 16992869] {CVE-2013-2852}
 - Bluetooth: RFCOMM - Fix missing msg_namelen update in rfcomm_sock_recvmsg() (Mathias Krause) [Orabug:
 16888256] {CVE-2013-3225}
 - Bluetooth: fix possible info leak in bt_sock_recvmsg() (Mathias Krause) [Orabug: 16888251] {CVE-2013-3224}
 - atm: update msg_namelen in vcc_recvmsg() (Mathias Krause) [Orabug: 16888219] {CVE-2013-3222}

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-2013-2546.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 69942

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-2546.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/18/2013

Updated: 4/30/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-3076

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:H/I:N/A:N

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-2234

Vulnerability Information

CPE: 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: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: 9/16/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/22/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-6549, CVE-2013-1772, CVE-2013-2140, CVE-2013-2164, CVE-2013-2234, CVE-2013-3076, CVE-2013-4163