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Oracle Linux 5 : Oracle / Enterprise / Linux / 5.5 / kernel (ELSA-2010-0178)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 180620

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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-2010-0178 advisory.

 - [fs] gfs2: locking fix for potential dos (Steven Whitehouse) [572390] {CVE-2010-0727}
 - [net] sctp: backport cleanups for ootb handling (Neil Horman) [555667] {CVE-2010-0008}
 - [mm] fix sys_move_pages infoleak (Eugene Teo) [562590] {CVE-2010-0415}
 - [net] netfilter: enforce CAP_NET_ADMIN in ebtables (Danny Feng) [555243] {CVE-2010-0007}
 - [misc] fix kernel info leak with print-fatal-signals=1 (Danny Feng) [554584] {CVE-2010-0003}
 - [net] emergency route cache flushing fixes (Thomas Graf) [545663] {CVE-2009-4272}
 - [fs] fasync: split 'fasync_helper()' into separate add/remove functions (Danny Feng) [548657] {CVE-2009-4141}
 - [scsi] qla2xxx: NPIV vport management pseudofiles are world writable (Tom Coughlan) [537318] {CVE-2009-3556}
 - [net] ipv6: fix ipv6_hop_jumbo remote system crash (Amerigo Wang) [548643] {CVE-2007-4567}
 - [net] e1000e: fix rx length check errors (Amerigo Wang) [551223] {CVE-2009-4538}
 - [net] e1000: fix rx length check errors (Neil Horman) [552138] {CVE-2009-4536}
 - [net] r8169: improved frame length filtering (Neil Horman) [550915] {CVE-2009-4537}
 - [firewire] ohci: handle receive packets with zero data (Jay Fenlason) [547242] {CVE-2009-4138}
 - [fs] respect flag in do_coredump (Danny Feng) [544189] {CVE-2009-4036}
 - [fs] ext4: fix insufficient checks in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT (Eric Sandeen) [546105] {CVE-2009-4131}
 - [fs] hfs: fix a potential buffer overflow (Amerigo Wang) [540741] {CVE-2009-4020}
 - [fuse] prevent fuse_put_request on invalid pointer (Danny Feng) [538737] {CVE-2009-4021}
 - [scsi] gdth: prevent negative offsets in ioctl (Amerigo Wang) [539421] {CVE-2009-3080}
 - [scsi] megaraid: fix sas permissions in sysfs (Casey Dahlin) [537313] {CVE-2009-3889 CVE-2009-3939}
 - [fs] pipe.c null pointer dereference (Jeff Moyer ) [530939] {CVE-2009-3547}
 - [nfs] v4: fix setting lock on open file with no state (Jeff Layton ) [533115] {CVE-2009-3726}
 - [drm] r128: check for init on all ioctls that require it (Danny Feng ) [529603] {CVE-2009-3620}
 - [security] require root for mmap_min_addr (Eric Paris ) [518143] {CVE-2009-2695}
 - [net] AF_UNIX: deadlock on connecting to shutdown socket (Jiri Pirko ) [529631] {CVE-2009-3621}
 - [fs] eCryptfs: prevent lower dentry from going negative (Eric Sandeen ) [527835] {CVE-2009-2908}
 - [nfs] knfsd: fix NFSv4 O_EXCL creates (Jeff Layton ) [524521] {CVE-2009-3286}
 - Revert: [net] atalk/irda: memory leak to user in getname (Don Zickus ) [519310] {CVE-2009-3001 CVE-2009-3002}
 - [net] atalk/irda: memory leak to user in getname (Danny Feng ) [519310] {CVE-2009-3001 CVE-2009-3002}
 - [md] prevent crash when accessing suspend_* sysfs attr (Danny Feng ) [518136] {CVE-2009-2849}

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-2010-0178.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 180620

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2010-0178.nasl

Version: 1.1

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-1188

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-0727

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-194.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-194.el5xen, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-194.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-194.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-194.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-194.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-194.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-194.el5pae

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: 4/5/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/24/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-4027, CVE-2009-4307, CVE-2010-0727, CVE-2010-1188

IAVA: 2010-A-0001-S