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Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2022-9761)

high Nessus Plugin ID 164790

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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-2022-9761 advisory.

 - fuse: fix pipe buffer lifetime for direct_io (Miklos Szeredi) [Orabug: 33981149] {CVE-2022-1011}
 - vt: drop old FONT ioctls (Jiri Slaby) [Orabug: 34408794] {CVE-2021-33656}
 - video: of_display_timing.h: include errno.h (Hsin-Yi Wang) [Orabug: 34408910] {CVE-2021-33655}
 - fbcon: Disallow setting font bigger than screen size (Helge Deller) [Orabug: 34408910] {CVE-2021-33655}
 - scsi: target: Fix WRITE_SAME No Data Buffer crash (Mike Christie) [Orabug: 34419974] {CVE-2022-21546}
 - mm: enforce min addr even if capable() in expand_downwards() (Jann Horn) [Orabug: 29501997] {CVE-2019-9213}
 - ipv4: tcp: send zero IPID in SYNACK messages (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 33917058] {CVE-2020-36516}
 - ipv4: Cache net in ip_build_and_send_pkt and ip_queue_xmit (Eric W. Biederman) [Orabug: 33917058] {CVE-2020-36516}
 - ipv4: igmp: guard against silly MTU values (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 33917058] {CVE-2020-36516}
 - inet: constify ip_dont_fragment() arguments (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 33917058] {CVE-2020-36516}
 - ip: constify ip_build_and_send_pkt() socket argument (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 33917058] {CVE-2020-36516}
 - vt: vt_ioctl: fix VT_DISALLOCATE freeing in-use virtual console (Eric Biggers) [Orabug: 34433461] {CVE-2020-36557}
 - vt: vt_ioctl: fix race in VT_RESIZEX (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 34433476] {CVE-2020-36558}
 - net_sched: cls_route: remove from list when handle is 0 (Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo) [Orabug:
 34460939] [Orabug: 34484730] {CVE-2022-2588}

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-2022-9761.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 164790

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2022-9761.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/7/2022

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-36516

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2588

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, 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:kernel-uek-debug, 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: 9/6/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2019

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) rds_atomic_free_op NULL pointer dereference Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-9213, CVE-2020-36516, CVE-2020-36557, CVE-2020-36558, CVE-2021-33655, CVE-2021-33656, CVE-2022-1011, CVE-2022-21546, CVE-2022-2588