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Oracle Linux 5 : Oracle / Enterprise / Linux / 5.4 / kernel (ELSA-2009-1243)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 180611

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2009-1243 advisory.

 - [net] udp: socket NULL ptr dereference (Vitaly Mayatskikh ) [518043] {CVE-2009-2698}
 - [net] make sock_sendpage use kernel_sendpage (Danny Feng ) [516955] {CVE-2009-2692}
 - [fs] ecryptfs: check tag 11 packet data buffer size (Eric Sandeen ) [512863] {CVE-2009-2406}
 - [fs] ecryptfs: check tag 3 packet encrypted key size (Eric Sandeen ) [512887] {CVE-2009-2407}
 - [net] tun/tap: open /dev/net/tun and then poll() it fix (Danny Feng ) [512286] {CVE-2009-1897}
 - [misc] hrtimer: fix a soft lockup (Amerigo Wang ) [418071] {CVE-2007-5966}
 - [net] r8169: fix crash when large packets are received (Ivan Vecera ) [504732] {CVE-2009-1389}
 - [ptrace] fix do_coredump vs ptrace_start() deadlock (Oleg Nesterov ) [504157] {CVE-2009-1388}
 - [net] e1000: fix skb_over_panic (Neil Horman ) [503441] {CVE-2009-1385}
 - [nfs] v4: client handling of MAY_EXEC in nfs_permission (Peter Staubach ) [500302] {CVE-2009-1630}
 - Revert: [sched] accurate task runtime accounting (Linda Wang ) [297731] {CVE-2007-3719}
 - [fs] cifs: fix pointer and checks in cifs_follow_symlink (Jeff Layton ) [496577] {CVE-2009-1633}
 - [fs] cifs: fix error handling in parse_DFS_referrals (Jeff Layton ) [496577] {CVE-2009-1633}
 - [sched] accurate task runtime accounting (Peter Zijlstra ) [297731] {CVE-2007-3719}
 - [sched] rq clock (Peter Zijlstra ) [297731] {CVE-2007-3719}
 - [x86] scale cyc_2_nsec according to CPU frequency (Peter Zijlstra ) [297731] {CVE-2007-3719}
 - [i386] untangle xtime_lock vs update_process_times (Peter Zijlstra ) [297731] {CVE-2007-3719}
 - [x86_64] clean up time.c (Peter Zijlstra ) [297731] {CVE-2007-3719}
 - [misc] add some long-missing capabilities to CAP_FS_MASK (Eric Paris ) [499076 497272] {CVE-2009-1072}
 - [fs] cifs: unicode alignment and buffer sizing problems (Jeff Layton ) [494280] {CVE-2009-1439}
 - [agp] zero pages before sending to userspace (Jiri Olsa ) [497026] {CVE-2009-1192}
 - [fs] rebase ext4 and jbd2 to 2.6.29 codebase (Eric Sandeen ) [485315 487933 487940 487944 487947] {CVE-2009-0745 CVE-2009-0746 CVE-2009-0747 CVE-2009-0748}
 - [misc] exit_notify: kill the wrong capable check (Oleg Nesterov ) [494271] {CVE-2009-1337}
 - [ptrace] audit_syscall_entry to use right syscall number (Jiri Pirko ) [488002] {CVE-2009-0834}
 - [net] skfp_ioctl inverted logic flaw (Eugene Teo ) [486540] {CVE-2009-0675}
 - [net] memory disclosure in SO_BSDCOMPAT gsopt (Eugene Teo ) [486518] {CVE-2009-0676}
 - [misc] minor signal handling vulnerability (Oleg Nesterov ) [479964] {CVE-2009-0028}
 - [fs] ecryptfs: readlink flaw (Eric Sandeen ) [481607] {CVE-2009-0269}
 - [security] keys: introduce missing kfree (Jiri Pirko ) [480598] {CVE-2009-0031}
 - [block] enforce a minimum SG_IO timeout (Eugene Teo ) [475406] {CVE-2008-5700}
 - [fs] ext[234]: directory corruption DoS (Eugene Teo ) [459604] {CVE-2008-3528}
 - [net] sctp: overflow with bad stream ID in FWD-TSN chunk (Eugene Teo ) [478805] {CVE-2009-0065}
 - [net] add preemption point in qdisc_run (Jiri Pirko ) [471398] {CVE-2008-5713}
 - [fs] hfsplus: fix buffer overflow with a corrupted image (Anton Arapov ) [469638] {CVE-2008-4933}
 - [fs] hfsplus: check read_mapping_page return value (Anton Arapov ) [469645] {CVE-2008-4934}
 - [fs] hfs: fix namelength memory corruption (Anton Arapov ) [470773] {CVE-2008-5025}

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-2009-1243.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 180611

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2009-1243.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/7/2023

Updated: 4/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-2848

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5.3

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:H/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-0747

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-164.el5xen, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-164.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-164.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-164.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-164.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-164.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-164.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-164.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel

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: 9/8/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/16/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0745, CVE-2009-0746, CVE-2009-0747, CVE-2009-0748, CVE-2009-2847, CVE-2009-2848