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Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2014-0159)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72469

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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-2014-0159 advisory.

 - [exec] ptrace: fix get_dumpable() incorrect tests (Petr Oros) [1039486 1039487] {CVE-2013-2929}
 - [net] ipv6: fix leaking uninitialized port number of offender sockaddr (Florian Westphal) [1035882 1035883] {CVE-2013-6405}
 - [net] inet: fix addr_len/msg->msg_namelen assignment in recv_error functions (Florian Westphal) [1035882 1035883] {CVE-2013-6405}
 - [net] inet: prevent leakage of uninitialized memory to user in recv syscalls (Florian Westphal) [1035882 1035883] {CVE-2013-6405}
 - [net] ipvs: Add boundary check on ioctl arguments (Denys Vlasenko) [1030817 1030818] {CVE-2013-4588}

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-2014-0159.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72469

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2014-0159.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/13/2014

Updated: 4/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

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-2013-6381

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-2013-7265

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-abi-whitelists, 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/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/11/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2929, CVE-2013-6381, CVE-2013-7263, CVE-2013-7265

BID: 63744, 63890, 64111, 64677, 64686

RHSA: 2014:0159