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Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2009-1548)

high Nessus Plugin ID 67953

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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-2009-1548 advisory.

 - [fs] fix pipe null pointer dereference (Jeff Moyer) [530938 530939] {CVE-2009-3547}
 - [security] require root for mmap_min_addr (Eric Paris ) [518142 518143] {CVE-2009-2695}
 - [fs] eCryptfs: prevent lower dentry from going negative (Eric Sandeen ) [527834 527835] {CVE-2009-2908}
 - [net] r8169: balance pci_map/unmap pair, use hw padding (Ivan Vecera ) [529143 515857] {CVE-2009-3613}

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-2009-1548.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 67953

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2009-1548.nasl

Version: 1.30

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: Critical

Score: 9.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-2695

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/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-2009-3547

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-164.6.1.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-164.6.1.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-164.6.1.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-164.6.1.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-164.6.1.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-164.6.1.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-164.6.1.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-164.6.1.0.1.el5xen

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: 11/4/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/16/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2695, CVE-2009-2908, CVE-2009-3228, CVE-2009-3286, CVE-2009-3547, CVE-2009-3613

BID: 36304, 36472, 36639, 36706, 36901

RHSA: 2009:1548