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Oracle Linux 4 : kernel (ELSA-2008-0237)

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From Red Hat Security Advisory 2008:0237 :

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

These updated packages fix the following security issues :

  • the absence of a protection mechanism when attempting to access a critical section of code has been found in the Linux kernel open file descriptors control mechanism, fcntl. This could allow a local unprivileged user to simultaneously execute code, which would otherwise be protected against parallel execution. As well, a race condition when handling locks in the Linux kernel fcntl functionality, may have allowed a process belonging to a local unprivileged user to gain re-ordered access to the descriptor table. (CVE-2008-1669, Important)

  • on AMD64 architectures, the possibility of a kernel crash was discovered by testing the Linux kernel process-trace ability. This could allow a local unprivileged user to cause a denial of service (kernel crash). (CVE-2008-1615, Important)

  • the absence of a protection mechanism when attempting to access a critical section of code, as well as a race condition, have been found in the Linux kernel file system event notifier, dnotify. This could allow a local unprivileged user to get inconsistent data, or to send arbitrary signals to arbitrary system processes. (CVE-2008-1375, Important)

Red Hat would like to thank Nick Piggin for responsibly disclosing the following issue :

  • when accessing kernel memory locations, certain Linux kernel drivers registering a fault handler did not perform required range checks. A local unprivileged user could use this flaw to gain read or write access to arbitrary kernel memory, or possibly cause a kernel crash.
    (CVE-2008-0007, Important)

  • the possibility of a kernel crash was found in the Linux kernel IPsec protocol implementation, due to improper handling of fragmented ESP packets. When an attacker controlling an intermediate router fragmented these packets into very small pieces, it would cause a kernel crash on the receiving node during packet reassembly.
    (CVE-2007-6282, Important)

  • a flaw in the MOXA serial driver could allow a local unprivileged user to perform privileged operations, such as replacing firmware.
    (CVE-2005-0504, Important)

As well, these updated packages fix the following bugs :

  • multiple buffer overflows in the neofb driver have been resolved. It was not possible for an unprivileged user to exploit these issues, and as such, they have not been handled as security issues.

  • a kernel panic, due to inconsistent detection of AGP aperture size, has been resolved.

  • a race condition in UNIX domain sockets may have caused ‘recv()’ to return zero. In clustered configurations, this may have caused unexpected failovers.

  • to prevent link storms, network link carrier events were delayed by up to one second, causing unnecessary packet loss. Now, link carrier events are scheduled immediately.

  • a client-side race on blocking locks caused large time delays on NFS file systems.

  • in certain situations, the libATA sata_nv driver may have sent commands with duplicate tags, which were rejected by SATA devices.
    This may have caused infinite reboots.

  • running the ‘service network restart’ command may have caused networking to fail.

  • a bug in NFS caused cached information about directories to be stored for too long, causing wrong attributes to be read.

  • on systems with a large highmem/lowmem ratio, NFS write performance may have been very slow when using small files.

  • a bug, which caused network hangs when the system clock was wrapped around zero, has been resolved.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2008:0237 and 
# Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2008-0237 respectively.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(67685);
  script_version("1.16");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/08/24");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2005-0504", "CVE-2007-6282", "CVE-2008-0007", "CVE-2008-1375", "CVE-2008-1615", "CVE-2008-1669");
  script_bugtraq_id(29003, 29076, 29081, 29086);
  script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2008:0237");

  script_name(english:"Oracle Linux 4 : kernel (ELSA-2008-0237)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"From Red Hat Security Advisory 2008:0237 :

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and several
bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux
operating system.

These updated packages fix the following security issues :

* the absence of a protection mechanism when attempting to access a
critical section of code has been found in the Linux kernel open file
descriptors control mechanism, fcntl. This could allow a local
unprivileged user to simultaneously execute code, which would
otherwise be protected against parallel execution. As well, a race
condition when handling locks in the Linux kernel fcntl functionality,
may have allowed a process belonging to a local unprivileged user to
gain re-ordered access to the descriptor table. (CVE-2008-1669,
Important)

* on AMD64 architectures, the possibility of a kernel crash was
discovered by testing the Linux kernel process-trace ability. This
could allow a local unprivileged user to cause a denial of service
(kernel crash). (CVE-2008-1615, Important)

* the absence of a protection mechanism when attempting to access a
critical section of code, as well as a race condition, have been found
in the Linux kernel file system event notifier, dnotify. This could
allow a local unprivileged user to get inconsistent data, or to send
arbitrary signals to arbitrary system processes. (CVE-2008-1375,
Important)

Red Hat would like to thank Nick Piggin for responsibly disclosing the
following issue :

* when accessing kernel memory locations, certain Linux kernel drivers
registering a fault handler did not perform required range checks. A
local unprivileged user could use this flaw to gain read or write
access to arbitrary kernel memory, or possibly cause a kernel crash.
(CVE-2008-0007, Important)

* the possibility of a kernel crash was found in the Linux kernel
IPsec protocol implementation, due to improper handling of fragmented
ESP packets. When an attacker controlling an intermediate router
fragmented these packets into very small pieces, it would cause a
kernel crash on the receiving node during packet reassembly.
(CVE-2007-6282, Important)

* a flaw in the MOXA serial driver could allow a local unprivileged
user to perform privileged operations, such as replacing firmware.
(CVE-2005-0504, Important)

As well, these updated packages fix the following bugs :

* multiple buffer overflows in the neofb driver have been resolved. It
was not possible for an unprivileged user to exploit these issues, and
as such, they have not been handled as security issues.

* a kernel panic, due to inconsistent detection of AGP aperture size,
has been resolved.

* a race condition in UNIX domain sockets may have caused 'recv()' to
return zero. In clustered configurations, this may have caused
unexpected failovers.

* to prevent link storms, network link carrier events were delayed by
up to one second, causing unnecessary packet loss. Now, link carrier
events are scheduled immediately.

* a client-side race on blocking locks caused large time delays on NFS
file systems.

* in certain situations, the libATA sata_nv driver may have sent
commands with duplicate tags, which were rejected by SATA devices.
This may have caused infinite reboots.

* running the 'service network restart' command may have caused
networking to fail.

* a bug in NFS caused cached information about directories to be
stored for too long, causing wrong attributes to be read.

* on systems with a large highmem/lowmem ratio, NFS write performance
may have been very slow when using small files.

* a bug, which caused network hangs when the system clock was wrapped
around zero, has been resolved.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 users are advised to upgrade to these
updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these
issues."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2008-May/000585.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected kernel packages."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
  script_cwe_id(16, 94, 119, 362, 399);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-doc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-hugemem");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-hugemem-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-largesmp");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-largesmp-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-smp");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-smp-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xenU");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xenU-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:oracle:linux:4");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2005/03/14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/05/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/07/12");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Oracle Linux Local Security Checks");

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

  exit(0);
}


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


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/OracleLinux")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Oracle Linux");
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || !pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux)", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Oracle Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux) .*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Oracle Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^4([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Oracle Linux 4", "Oracle Linux " + 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 && "ia64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Oracle Linux", cpu);

if (get_one_kb_item("Host/ksplice/kernel-cves"))
{
  cve_list = make_list("CVE-2005-0504", "CVE-2007-6282", "CVE-2008-0007", "CVE-2008-1375", "CVE-2008-1615", "CVE-2008-1669");  
  if (ksplice_cves_check(cve_list))
  {
    audit(AUDIT_PATCH_INSTALLED, "KSplice hotfix for ELSA-2008-0237");
  }
  else
  {
    __rpm_report = ksplice_reporting_text();
  }
}

kernel_major_minor = get_kb_item("Host/uname/major_minor");
if (empty_or_null(kernel_major_minor)) exit(1, "Unable to determine kernel major-minor level.");
expected_kernel_major_minor = "2.6";
if (kernel_major_minor != expected_kernel_major_minor)
  audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "running kernel level " + expected_kernel_major_minor + ", it is running kernel level " + kernel_major_minor);

flag = 0;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL4", rpm:"kernel-2.6.9") && rpm_check(release:"EL4", reference:"kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.0.1.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL4", rpm:"kernel-devel-2.6.9") && rpm_check(release:"EL4", reference:"kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.0.1.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL4", rpm:"kernel-doc-2.6.9") && rpm_check(release:"EL4", reference:"kernel-doc-2.6.9-67.0.15.0.1.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL4", rpm:"kernel-hugemem-2.6.9") && rpm_check(release:"EL4", cpu:"i386", reference:"kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-67.0.15.0.1.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL4", rpm:"kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9") && rpm_check(release:"EL4", cpu:"i386", reference:"kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.0.1.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL4", rpm:"kernel-largesmp-2.6.9") && rpm_check(release:"EL4", cpu:"ia64", reference:"kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-67.0.15.0.1.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL4", rpm:"kernel-largesmp-2.6.9") && rpm_check(release:"EL4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-67.0.15.0.1.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL4", rpm:"kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9") && rpm_check(release:"EL4", cpu:"ia64", reference:"kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.0.1.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL4", rpm:"kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9") && rpm_check(release:"EL4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.0.1.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL4", rpm:"kernel-smp-2.6.9") && rpm_check(release:"EL4", cpu:"i386", reference:"kernel-smp-2.6.9-67.0.15.0.1.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL4", rpm:"kernel-smp-2.6.9") && rpm_check(release:"EL4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-smp-2.6.9-67.0.15.0.1.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL4", rpm:"kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9") && rpm_check(release:"EL4", cpu:"i386", reference:"kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.0.1.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL4", rpm:"kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9") && rpm_check(release:"EL4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.0.1.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL4", rpm:"kernel-xenU-2.6.9") && rpm_check(release:"EL4", cpu:"i386", reference:"kernel-xenU-2.6.9-67.0.15.0.1.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL4", rpm:"kernel-xenU-2.6.9") && rpm_check(release:"EL4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-xenU-2.6.9-67.0.15.0.1.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL4", rpm:"kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9") && rpm_check(release:"EL4", cpu:"i386", reference:"kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.0.1.EL")) flag++;
if (rpm_exists(release:"EL4", rpm:"kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9") && rpm_check(release:"EL4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-67.0.15.0.1.EL")) 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, "affected kernel");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
oraclelinuxkernelp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel
oraclelinuxkernel-develp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel
oraclelinuxkernel-docp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-doc
oraclelinuxkernel-hugememp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-hugemem
oraclelinuxkernel-hugemem-develp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-hugemem-devel
oraclelinuxkernel-largesmpp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-largesmp
oraclelinuxkernel-largesmp-develp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-largesmp-devel
oraclelinuxkernel-smpp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-smp
oraclelinuxkernel-smp-develp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-smp-devel
oraclelinuxkernel-xenup-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xenu
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