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Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2017-3657)

high Nessus Plugin ID 105144

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-3657 advisory.

 - The mm subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.2 does not properly enforce the CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM protection mechanism, which allows local users to read or write to kernel memory locations in the first megabyte (and bypass slab-allocation access restrictions) via an application that opens the /dev/mem file, related to arch/x86/mm/init.c and drivers/char/mem.c. (CVE-2017-7889)

 - The bio_map_user_iov and bio_unmap_user functions in block/bio.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.8 do unbalanced refcounting when a SCSI I/O vector has small consecutive buffers belonging to the same page.
 The bio_add_pc_page function merges them into one, but the page reference is never dropped. This causes a memory leak and possible system lockup (exploitable against the host OS by a guest OS user, if a SCSI disk is passed through to a virtual machine) due to an out-of-memory condition. (CVE-2017-12190)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-2017-3657.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 105144

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-3657.nasl

Version: 3.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/11/2017

Updated: 9/8/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7889

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.20.1.el6uek, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.20.1.el7uek, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-firmware

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: 12/7/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/17/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10044, CVE-2016-10200, CVE-2016-7097, CVE-2016-9604, CVE-2016-9685, CVE-2017-1000111, CVE-2017-1000251, CVE-2017-1000363, CVE-2017-1000365, CVE-2017-1000380, CVE-2017-10661, CVE-2017-11176, CVE-2017-11473, CVE-2017-12134, CVE-2017-12190, CVE-2017-14489, CVE-2017-2671, CVE-2017-7542, CVE-2017-7645, CVE-2017-7889, CVE-2017-8831, CVE-2017-9075, CVE-2017-9077, CVE-2017-9242