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Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2017-3535)

high Nessus Plugin ID 99161

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-3535 advisory.

 - RHEL: complement upstream workaround for CVE-2016-10142. (Quentin Casasnovas) [Orabug: 25765786] {CVE-2016-10142} {CVE-2016-10142}
 - net: ping: check minimum size on ICMP header length (Kees Cook) [Orabug: 25766914] {CVE-2016-8399}
 - ipv6: stop sending PTB packets for MTU < 1280 (Hagen Paul Pfeifer) [Orabug: 25765786] {CVE-2016-10142}
 - sg_write()/bsg_write() is not fit to be called under KERNEL_DS (Al Viro) [Orabug: 25765448] {CVE-2016-10088}
 - scsi: sg: check length passed to SG_NEXT_CMD_LEN (peter chang) [Orabug: 25752011] {CVE-2017-7187}
 - tty: n_hdlc: get rid of racy n_hdlc.tbuf (Alexander Popov) [Orabug: 25696689] {CVE-2017-2636}
 - TTY: n_hdlc, fix lockdep false positive (Jiri Slaby) [Orabug: 25696689] {CVE-2017-2636}
 - drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c: replace kmalloc/memset by kzalloc (Fabian Frederick) [Orabug: 25696689] {CVE-2017-2636}
 - list: introduce list_first_entry_or_null (Jiri Pirko) [Orabug: 25696689] {CVE-2017-2636}
 - firewire: net: guard against rx buffer overflows (Stefan Richter) [Orabug: 25451538] {CVE-2016-8633}
 - x86/mm/32: Enable full randomization on i386 and X86_32 (Hector Marco-Gisbert) [Orabug: 25463929] {CVE-2016-3672}
 - x86 get_unmapped_area: Access mmap_legacy_base through mm_struct member (Radu Caragea) [Orabug:
 25463929] {CVE-2016-3672}
 - sg_start_req(): make sure that there's not too many elements in iovec (Al Viro) [Orabug: 25490377] {CVE-2015-5707}
 - tcp: take care of truncations done by sk_filter() (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 25507232] {CVE-2016-8645}
 - rose: limit sk_filter trim to payload (Willem de Bruijn) [Orabug: 25507232] {CVE-2016-8645}
 - scsi: arcmsr: Buffer overflow in arcmsr_iop_message_xfer() (Dan Carpenter) [Orabug: 25507330] {CVE-2016-7425}
 - x86: bpf_jit: fix compilation of large bpf programs (Alexei Starovoitov) [Orabug: 25507375] {CVE-2015-4700}
 - net: fix a kernel infoleak in x25 module (Kangjie Lu) [Orabug: 25512417] {CVE-2016-4580}
 - USB: digi_acceleport: do sanity checking for the number of ports (Oliver Neukum) [Orabug: 25512472] {CVE-2016-3140}

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-2017-3535.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 99161

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-3535.nasl

Version: 3.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/3/2017

Updated: 11/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-8399

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7187

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek-firmware, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-uek, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

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: 3/31/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/19/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-4700, CVE-2015-5707, CVE-2016-10088, CVE-2016-10142, CVE-2016-3140, CVE-2016-3672, CVE-2016-4580, CVE-2016-7425, CVE-2016-8399, CVE-2016-8633, CVE-2016-8645, CVE-2017-2636, CVE-2017-6345, CVE-2017-7187