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Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2013-0168)

high Nessus Plugin ID 68711

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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-2013-0168 advisory.

 - [x86] mm: randomize SHLIB_BASE (Petr Matousek) [804953 804954] {CVE-2012-1568}
 - [net] ipv6: discard overlapping fragment (Jiri Pirko) [874837 874838] {CVE-2012-4444}
 - [xen] memop: limit guest specified extent order (Laszlo Ersek) [878449 878450] {CVE-2012-5515}

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-2013-0168.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 68711

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-0168.nasl

Version: 1.13

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: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-4444

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-348.1.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-348.1.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-348.1.1.el5debug, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-348.1.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-348.1.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-348.1.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-348.1.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-348.1.1.el5xen, 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/23/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/13/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1568, CVE-2012-4444, CVE-2012-5515

BID: 52687, 56798, 56891

RHSA: 2013:0168