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HistoryJan 17, 2007 - 12:00 a.m.

Fedora Core 5 : kernel-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5 (2006-1221)

2007-01-1700:00:00
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This updates to the latest upstream stable kernel (2.6.18.2), and also fixes a number of security issues.

MOKB-05-11-2006: Linux 2.6.x ISO9660 __find_get_block_slow() denial of service http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-05-11-2006.html (CVE-2006-5757)

MOKB-07-11-2006: Linux 2.6.x zlib_inflate memory corruption http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-07-11-2006.html

MOKB-09-11-2006: Linux 2.6.x ext3fs_dirhash denial of service http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-10-11-2006.html

Herbert Xu found a security issue in the Xen hypervisor, which would allow a malicious guest to access a freed grant table page after freeing and possibly having it reallocated to another guest.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2006-1221.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(24053);
  script_version("1.15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");

  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2006-1221");

  script_name(english:"Fedora Core 5 : kernel-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5 (2006-1221)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"This updates to the latest upstream stable kernel (2.6.18.2), and also
fixes a number of security issues.

MOKB-05-11-2006: Linux 2.6.x ISO9660 __find_get_block_slow() denial of
service http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-05-11-2006.html
(CVE-2006-5757)

MOKB-07-11-2006: Linux 2.6.x zlib_inflate memory corruption
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-07-11-2006.html

MOKB-09-11-2006: Linux 2.6.x ext3fs_dirhash denial of service
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-10-11-2006.html

Herbert Xu found a security issue in the Xen hypervisor, which would
allow a malicious guest to access a freed grant table page after
freeing and possibly having it reallocated to another guest.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-05-11-2006.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-07-11-2006.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-10-11-2006.html"
  );
  # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2006-November/000870.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?4065e3a7"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"risk_factor", value:"High");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-doc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-kdump");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-kdump-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen0-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xenU");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xenU-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2006/11/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/01/17");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^5([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 5.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);

flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"kernel-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"kernel-doc-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"kernel-kdump-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", cpu:"i386", reference:"kernel-smp-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", cpu:"i386", reference:"kernel-smp-devel-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"kernel-xen0-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"kernel-xen0-devel-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"kernel-xenU-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "kernel / kernel-debuginfo / kernel-devel / kernel-doc / etc");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
fedoraprojectfedorakernelp-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel
fedoraprojectfedorakernel-debuginfop-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debuginfo
fedoraprojectfedorakernel-develp-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-devel
fedoraprojectfedorakernel-docp-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-doc
fedoraprojectfedorakernel-kdumpp-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-kdump
fedoraprojectfedorakernel-kdump-develp-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-kdump-devel
fedoraprojectfedorakernel-smpp-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp
fedoraprojectfedorakernel-smp-develp-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp-devel
fedoraprojectfedorakernel-xenp-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen
fedoraprojectfedorakernel-xen-develp-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen-devel
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