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HistoryAug 01, 2012 - 12:00 a.m.

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64

2012-08-0100:00:00
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Security fixes :

  • memory leaks were found on some error paths in the icmp_send() function in the Linux kernel. This could, potentially, cause the network connectivity to cease.
    (CVE-2009-0778, Important)

  • Chris Evans reported a deficiency in the clone() system call when called with the CLONE_PARENT flag. This flaw permits the caller (the parent process) to indicate an arbitrary signal it wants to receive when its child process exits. This could lead to a denial of service of the parent process. (CVE-2009-0028, Moderate)

  • an off-by-one underflow flaw was found in the eCryptfs subsystem. This could potentially cause a local denial of service when the readlink() function returned an error. (CVE-2009-0269, Moderate)

  • a deficiency was found in the Remote BIOS Update (RBU) driver for Dell systems. This could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service by reading zero bytes from the image_type or packet_size files in ‘/sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/’.
    (CVE-2009-0322, Moderate)

  • an inverted logic flaw was found in the SysKonnect FDDI PCI adapter driver, allowing driver statistics to be reset only when the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability was absent (local, unprivileged users could reset driver statistics). (CVE-2009-0675, Moderate)

  • the sock_getsockopt() function in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize a data structure that can be directly returned to user-space when the getsockopt() function is called with SO_BSDCOMPAT optname set. This flaw could possibly lead to memory disclosure.
    (CVE-2009-0676, Moderate)

  • the ext2 and ext3 file system code failed to properly handle corrupted data structures, leading to a possible local denial of service when read or write operations were performed on a specially crafted file system.
    (CVE-2008-3528, Low)

  • a deficiency was found in the libATA implementation.
    This could, potentially, lead to a local denial of service. Note: by default, the ‘/dev/sg*’ devices are accessible only to the root user. (CVE-2008-5700, Low)

Bug fixes :

  • a bug in aic94xx may have caused kernel panics during boot on some systems with certain SATA disks.
    (BZ#485909)

  • a word endianness problem in the qla2xx driver on PowerPC-based machines may have corrupted flash-based devices. (BZ#485908)

  • a memory leak in pipe() may have caused a system deadlock. The workaround, which involved manually allocating extra file descriptors toprocesses calling do_pipe, is no longer necessary. (BZ#481576)

  • CPU soft-lockups in the network rate estimator.
    (BZ#481746)

  • bugs in the ixgbe driver caused it to function unreliably on some systems with 16 or more CPU cores.
    (BZ#483210)

  • the iwl4965 driver may have caused a kernel panic.
    (BZ#483206)

  • a bug caused NFS attributes to not update for some long-lived NFS mounted file systems. (BZ#483201)

  • unmounting a GFS2 file system may have caused a panic.
    (BZ#485910)

  • a bug in ptrace() may have caused a panic when single stepping a target. (BZ#487394)

  • on some 64-bit systems, notsc was incorrectly set at boot, causing slow gettimeofday() calls. (BZ#488239)

  • do_machine_check() cleared all Machine Check Exception (MCE) status registers, preventing the BIOS from using them to determine the cause of certain panics and errors. (BZ#490433)

  • scaling problems caused performance problems for LAPI applications. (BZ#489457)

  • a panic may have occurred on systems using certain Intel WiFi Link 5000 products when booting with the RF Kill switch on. (BZ#489846)

  • the TSC is invariant with C/P/T states, and always runs at constant frequency from now on. (BZ#489310)

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text is (C) Scientific Linux.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(60559);
  script_version("1.8");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/14");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2008-3528", "CVE-2008-5700", "CVE-2009-0028", "CVE-2009-0269", "CVE-2009-0322", "CVE-2009-0675", "CVE-2009-0676", "CVE-2009-0778");

  script_name(english:"Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security
updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Security fixes :

  - memory leaks were found on some error paths in the
    icmp_send() function in the Linux kernel. This could,
    potentially, cause the network connectivity to cease.
    (CVE-2009-0778, Important)

  - Chris Evans reported a deficiency in the clone() system
    call when called with the CLONE_PARENT flag. This flaw
    permits the caller (the parent process) to indicate an
    arbitrary signal it wants to receive when its child
    process exits. This could lead to a denial of service of
    the parent process. (CVE-2009-0028, Moderate)

  - an off-by-one underflow flaw was found in the eCryptfs
    subsystem. This could potentially cause a local denial
    of service when the readlink() function returned an
    error. (CVE-2009-0269, Moderate)

  - a deficiency was found in the Remote BIOS Update (RBU)
    driver for Dell systems. This could allow a local,
    unprivileged user to cause a denial of service by
    reading zero bytes from the image_type or packet_size
    files in '/sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/'.
    (CVE-2009-0322, Moderate)

  - an inverted logic flaw was found in the SysKonnect FDDI
    PCI adapter driver, allowing driver statistics to be
    reset only when the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability was absent
    (local, unprivileged users could reset driver
    statistics). (CVE-2009-0675, Moderate)

  - the sock_getsockopt() function in the Linux kernel did
    not properly initialize a data structure that can be
    directly returned to user-space when the getsockopt()
    function is called with SO_BSDCOMPAT optname set. This
    flaw could possibly lead to memory disclosure.
    (CVE-2009-0676, Moderate)

  - the ext2 and ext3 file system code failed to properly
    handle corrupted data structures, leading to a possible
    local denial of service when read or write operations
    were performed on a specially crafted file system.
    (CVE-2008-3528, Low)

  - a deficiency was found in the libATA implementation.
    This could, potentially, lead to a local denial of
    service. Note: by default, the '/dev/sg*' devices are
    accessible only to the root user. (CVE-2008-5700, Low)

Bug fixes :

  - a bug in aic94xx may have caused kernel panics during
    boot on some systems with certain SATA disks.
    (BZ#485909)

  - a word endianness problem in the qla2xx driver on
    PowerPC-based machines may have corrupted flash-based
    devices. (BZ#485908)

  - a memory leak in pipe() may have caused a system
    deadlock. The workaround, which involved manually
    allocating extra file descriptors toprocesses calling
    do_pipe, is no longer necessary. (BZ#481576)

  - CPU soft-lockups in the network rate estimator.
    (BZ#481746)

  - bugs in the ixgbe driver caused it to function
    unreliably on some systems with 16 or more CPU cores.
    (BZ#483210)

  - the iwl4965 driver may have caused a kernel panic.
    (BZ#483206)

  - a bug caused NFS attributes to not update for some
    long-lived NFS mounted file systems. (BZ#483201)

  - unmounting a GFS2 file system may have caused a panic.
    (BZ#485910)

  - a bug in ptrace() may have caused a panic when single
    stepping a target. (BZ#487394)

  - on some 64-bit systems, notsc was incorrectly set at
    boot, causing slow gettimeofday() calls. (BZ#488239)

  - do_machine_check() cleared all Machine Check Exception
    (MCE) status registers, preventing the BIOS from using
    them to determine the cause of certain panics and
    errors. (BZ#490433)

  - scaling problems caused performance problems for LAPI
    applications. (BZ#489457)

  - a panic may have occurred on systems using certain Intel
    WiFi Link 5000 products when booting with the RF Kill
    switch on. (BZ#489846)

  - the TSC is invariant with C/P/T states, and always runs
    at constant frequency from now on. (BZ#489310)

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481576"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481746"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483201"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483206"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483210"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485908"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485909"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485910"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487394"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488239"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489310"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489457"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489846"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490433"
  );
  # https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0904&L=scientific-linux-errata&T=0&P=76
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?ad870d63"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_cwe_id(189, 264, 399);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"x-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2008/09/27");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/04/01");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/08/01");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Scientific Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "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) || "Scientific Linux " >!< release) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "running Scientific Linux");
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 (cpu >!< "x86_64" && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Scientific Linux", cpu);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"kernel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", cpu:"i386", reference:"kernel-PAE-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", cpu:"i386", reference:"kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"kernel-debug-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"kernel-devel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"kernel-doc-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"kernel-headers-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
fermilabscientific_linuxx-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux

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