RHEL 5 : gfs-kmod (RHSA-2010:0291)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63925

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2010:0291 advisory.

- kernel: bug in GFS/GFS2 locking code leads to dos (CVE-2010-0727)

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 kmod-gfs, kmod-gfs-PAE and / or kmod-gfs-xen packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3271613d

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0291

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471258

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487610

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513885

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515717

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=517145

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570863

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63925

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2010-0291.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2013

Updated: 4/21/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-0727

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kmod-gfs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kmod-gfs-pae, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kmod-gfs-xen, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gfs-kmod

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/30/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0727

RHSA: 2010:0291