Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4300)
High Nessus Plugin ID 119535
Synopsis
The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
Description of changes:
kernel-uek [3.8.13-118.28.1.el7uek]
- udf: Check component length before reading it (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 21193696] {CVE-2014-9728}
- udf: Verify i_size when loading inode (Shan Hai) [Orabug: 21193696] {CVE-2014-9728}
- intel_pstate: Fix overflow in busy_scaled due to long delay (mridula shastry) [Orabug: 28005134] - scsi: libsas: defer ata device eh commands to libata (Jason Yan) [Orabug: 28459689] {CVE-2018-10021}
- nfsd: silence sparse warning about accessing credentials (Jeff Layton) [Orabug: 28824742] {CVE-2017-13168}
- scsi: sg: mitigate read/write abuse (Jann Horn) [Orabug: 28824742] {CVE-2017-13168}
- scsi: sg: allocate with __GFP_ZERO in sg_build_indirect() (Alexander Potapenko) [Orabug: 28892683] {CVE-2018-1000204}
- ALSA: rawmidi: Change resized buffers atomically (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 28898650] {CVE-2018-10902}
- KVM: MTRR: remove MSR 0x2f8 (Andy Honig) [Orabug: 28901657] {CVE-2016-3713} {CVE-2016-3713}
- cdrom: fix improper type cast, which can leat to information leak. (Young_X) [Orabug: 28929777] {CVE-2018-16658} {CVE-2018-10940} {CVE-2018-18710}
- floppy: Do not copy a kernel pointer to user memory in FDGETPRM ioctl (Andy Whitcroft) {CVE-2018-7755} {CVE-2018-7755}
- crypto: salsa20 - fix blkcipher_walk API usage (Eric Biggers) [Orabug: 28976585] {CVE-2017-17805}
- crypto: hmac - require that the underlying hash algorithm is unkeyed (Eric Biggers) [Orabug: 28976654] {CVE-2017-17806}
Solution
Update the affected unbreakable enterprise kernel packages.