RHEL 6 : Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 kernel (RHSA-2011:0542)

high Nessus Plugin ID 54590

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:0542 advisory.

- kvm: arch/x86/kvm/x86.c: reading uninitialized stack memory (CVE-2010-3881)

- kernel: unlimited socket backlog DoS (CVE-2010-4251, CVE-2010-4805)

- kernel: thp: prevent hugepages during args/env copying into the user stack (CVE-2011-0999)

- kernel: fs/partitions: Validate map_count in Mac partition tables (CVE-2011-1010)

- kernel: BUG_ON() in rds_send_xmit() (CVE-2011-1023)

- kernel: potential kernel deadlock when creating circular epoll file structures (CVE-2011-1082)

- kernel: nfs4: Ensure that ACL pages sent over NFS were not allocated from the slab (CVE-2011-1090)

- kernel: fs/partitions: Corrupted OSF partition table infoleak (CVE-2011-1163)

- kernel: ipv4: netfilter: arp_tables: fix infoleak to userspace (CVE-2011-1170)

- kernel: ipv4: netfilter: ip_tables: fix infoleak to userspace (CVE-2011-1171)

- kernel: ipv6: netfilter: ip6_tables: fix infoleak to userspace (CVE-2011-1172)

- kernel: drivers/scsi/mpt2sas: prevent heap overflows (CVE-2011-1494, CVE-2011-1495)

- kernel: bonding: Incorrect TX queue offset (CVE-2011-1581)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 54590

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-0542.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/20/2011

Updated: 4/21/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-1581

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-4805

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-bootwrapper, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-firmware, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-kdump, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kernel-kdump-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perf, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/19/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/23/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3881, CVE-2010-4251, CVE-2010-4805, CVE-2011-0999, CVE-2011-1010, CVE-2011-1023, CVE-2011-1082, CVE-2011-1090, CVE-2011-1163, CVE-2011-1170, CVE-2011-1171, CVE-2011-1172, CVE-2011-1494, CVE-2011-1495, CVE-2011-1581

BID: 46442, 46492, 46630, 46637, 46676, 46766, 46878, 46919, 47185

CWE: 119

RHSA: 2011:0542

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