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Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2008-1017)

high Nessus Plugin ID 67772

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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-2008-1017 advisory.

 - [drm] i915 driver arbitrary ioremap (Eugene Teo ) [464508 464509] {CVE-2008-3831}
 - [fs] don't allow splice to files opened with O_APPEND (Eugene Teo ) [466709 466710] {CVE-2008-4554}
 - [net] sctp: INIT-ACK indicates no AUTH peer support oops (Eugene Teo ) [466081 466082] {CVE-2008-4576}
 - [xen] allow guests to hide the TSC from applications (Chris Lalancette ) [378471 378481] {CVE-2007-5907}
 - Revert: [xen] allow guests to hide the TSC from applications (Chris Lalancette ) [378471 378481] {CVE-2007-5907}

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-2008-1017.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 67772

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2008-1017.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 4/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-4554

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-4576

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ofa-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ofa-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ofa-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5xen, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-92.1.22.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/18/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/15/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3831, CVE-2008-4554, CVE-2008-4576

BID: 31634, 31792, 31903

RHSA: 2008:1017