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Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2019-4672)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 125792

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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-2019-4672 advisory.

 - Bluetooth: hidp: fix buffer overflow (Young Xiao) [Orabug: 29786787] {CVE-2011-1079} {CVE-2019-11884}
 - x86/speculation/mds: Fix verw usage to use memory operand (Patrick Colp) [Orabug: 29791038] {CVE-2018-12126} {CVE-2018-12130} {CVE-2018-12127} {CVE-2019-11091}

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-2019-4672.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 125792

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2019-4672.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/10/2019

Updated: 3/3/2025

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: 4.7

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11091

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.35.1.el6uek, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-firmware, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.35.1.el7uek, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

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: 6/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/7/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2018-12130, CVE-2019-11091, CVE-2019-11884

IAVA: 2019-A-0166