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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.123629
Category:Oracle Linux Local Security Checks
Title:Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2013-2523)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'kernel-uek' package(s) announced via the ELSA-2013-2523 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'kernel-uek' package(s) announced via the ELSA-2013-2523 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
[2.6.39-400.23.1]
- Parallel mtrr init between cpus (Zhenzhong Duan) [Orabug: 16777774]
- Merge tag 'v2.6.39-400.21.1.16748891' of git://ca-git.us.oracle.com/linux-uek-2.6.39-ofed into uek-2.6.39-400 (Maxim Uvarov) [Orabug: 16748891]
- xen-blkfront: use a different scatterlist for each request (Roger Pau Monne)
- Fix EN driver to work with newer FWs based on latest mlx4_core (Yuval Shaia) [Orabug: 16748891]

[2.6.39-400.22.1]
- block: default SCSI command filter does not accommodate commands overlap across device classes (Jamie Iles) [Orabug: 16387137] {CVE-2012-4542}
- Merge tag 'v2.6.39-400.21.1#bug16684527' of git://ca-git.us.oracle.com/linux-joejin-public into uek-2.6.39-400_errata (Maxim Uvarov) [Orabug: 16684527]
- KVM: x86: Convert MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME to use gfn_to_hva_cache functions (CVE-2013-1797) (Andy Honig) [Orabug: 16711660] {CVE-2013-1797}
- Bluetooth: Fix incorrect strncpy() in hidp_setup_hid() (Anderson Lizardo) [Orabug: 16711065] {CVE-2013-0349}
- USB: io_ti: Fix NULL dereference in chase_port() (Wolfgang Frisch) [Orabug: 16425358] {CVE-2013-1774}
- keys: fix race with concurrent install_user_keyrings() (David Howells) [Orabug: 16493354] {CVE-2013-1792}
- KVM: Fix bounds checking in ioapic indirect register reads (CVE-2013-1798) (Andy Honig) [Orabug: 16710951] {CVE-2013-1798}
- KVM: x86: fix for buffer overflow in handling of MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME (CVE-2013-1796) (Andy Honig) [Orabug: 16710806] {CVE-2013-1796}
- tmpfs: fix use-after-free of mempolicy object (Greg Thelen) [Orabug: 16515833] {CVE-2013-1767}
- procfs: do not confuse jiffies with cputime64_t (Andreas Schwab) [Orabug: 16673925]
- procfs: do not overflow get_{idle,iowait}_time for nohz (Michal Hocko) [Orabug: 16673925]
- xen/evtchn: Handle VIRQ_TIMER before any other hardirq in event loop. (Keir Fraser) [Orabug: 16093126]
- Fix device removal NULL pointer dereference (Joe Jin) [Orabug: 16684527]
- put stricter guards on queue dead checks (James Bottomley) [Orabug: 16684527]

Affected Software/OS:
'kernel-uek' package(s) on Oracle Linux 5, Oracle Linux 6.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
4.6

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2012-4542
RHSA-2013:0496
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0496.html
RHSA-2013:0579
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0579.html
RHSA-2013:0882
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0882.html
RHSA-2013:0928
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0928.html
[linux-kernel] 20130124 [PATCH 00/13] Corrections and customization of the SG_IO command whitelist (CVE-2012-4542)
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=135903967015813&w=2
[linux-kernel] 20130124 [PATCH 04/13] sg_io: resolve conflicts between commands assigned to multiple classes (CVE-2012-4542)
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=135904012416042&w=2
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875360
https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=76a274e17114abf1a77de6b651424648ce9e10c8
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