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Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2010-0147)

high Nessus Plugin ID 68014

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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-2010-0147 advisory.

 - [net] sctp: backport cleanups for ootb handling V2 (Neil Horman) [555666 555667] {CVE-2010-0008}
 - Reverting: [net] sctp: backport cleanups for ootb handling (Neil Horman) [555666 555667] {CVE-2010-0008}
 - [fs] ext4: Avoid null pointer dereference when decoding EROFS w/o a journal (Jiri Pirko) [547256 547257] {CVE-2009-4308}
 - [net] sctp: backport cleanups for ootb handling (Neil Horman) [555666 555667] {CVE-2010-0008}
 - [mm] fix sys_move_pages infoleak (Eugene Teo) [562589 562590] {CVE-2010-0415}
 - [net] netfilter: enforce CAP_NET_ADMIN in ebtables (Danny Feng) [555242 555243] {CVE-2010-0007}
 - [misc] fix kernel info leak with print-fatal-signals=1 (Danny Feng) [554583 554584] {CVE-2010-0003}
 - [net] e1000: fix rx length check errors (Neil Horman) [552137 552138] {CVE-2009-4536}

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-2010-0147.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 68014

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2010-0147.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 4/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-0003

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7.2

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:H/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-0008

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-164.15.1.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-164.15.1.0.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-164.15.1.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-164.15.1.0.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-164.15.1.0.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-164.15.1.0.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-164.15.1.0.1.el5pae, 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:ocfs2-2.6.18-164.15.1.0.1.el5xen

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/18/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-4308, CVE-2010-0003, CVE-2010-0007, CVE-2010-0008, CVE-2010-0415, CVE-2010-0437

BID: 37724, 37762, 38144, 38185

RHSA: 2010:0147