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Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2014-0285)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 73007

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-0285 advisory.

 - [ipc] change refcount to atomic_t (Phillip Lougher) [1024866 1024868] {CVE-2013-4483}
 - [s390] qeth: buffer overflow in snmp ioctl (Jacob Tanenbaum) [1034402 1034404] {CVE-2013-6381}
 - [scsi] AACRAID Driver compat IOCTL missing capability check (Jacob Tanenbaum) [1033531 1033532] {CVE-2013-6383}
 - [xen] x86/AMD: work around erratum 793 (Radim Krcmar) [1035834 1035836] {CVE-2013-6885}
 - [xen] do not expose hypercalls to rings 1 and 2 of HVM guests (Andrew Jones) [1029112 1029113] {CVE-2013-4554}
 - [net] ipv6: fix leaking uninit port number of offender sockaddr (Florian Westphal) [1035880 1035881] {CVE-2013-7264 CVE-2013-7265 CVE-2013-7281 CVE-2013-7263}
 - [net] fix addr_len/msg->msg_namelen assign in recv_error funcs (Florian Westphal) [1035880 1035881] {CVE-2013-7264 CVE-2013-7265 CVE-2013-7281 CVE-2013-7263}
 - [net] prevent leakage of uninitialized memory to user in recv (Florian Westphal) [1035880 1035881] {CVE-2013-7264 CVE-2013-7265 CVE-2013-7281 CVE-2013-7263}
 - [fs] exec/ptrace: fix get_dumpable() incorrect tests (Petr Oros) [1039483 1039484] {CVE-2013-2929}

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-2014-0285.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 73007

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2014-0285.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2014

Updated: 4/29/2025

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: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-6383

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-2013-7263

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-371.6.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-371.6.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-371.6.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-371.6.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-371.6.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-371.6.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-371.6.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-371.6.1.el5pae

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/4/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2929, CVE-2013-4483, CVE-2013-4554, CVE-2013-6381, CVE-2013-6383, CVE-2013-6885, CVE-2013-7263

BID: 63445, 63888, 63890, 63931, 63983, 64111, 64677, 64685, 64686, 64747

RHSA: 2014:0285