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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.123906
Category:Oracle Linux Local Security Checks
Title:Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2012-0721-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'kernel, ocfs2-2.6.18-308.8.2.0.1.el5, oracleasm-2.6.18-308.8.2.0.1.el5' package(s) announced via the ELSA-2012-0721-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'kernel, ocfs2-2.6.18-308.8.2.0.1.el5, oracleasm-2.6.18-308.8.2.0.1.el5' package(s) announced via the ELSA-2012-0721-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
kernel:

[2.6.18-308.8.2.0.1.el5]
- [net] bonding: fix carrier detect when bond is down [orabug 12377284]
- [mm] fix hugetlb page leak (Dave McCracken) [orabug 12375075]
- fix ia64 build error due to add-support-above-32-vcpus.patch(Zhenzhong Duan)
- [x86] use dynamic vcpu_info remap to support more than 32 vcpus (Zhenzhong Duan)
- [x86] Fix lvt0 reset when hvm boot up with noapic param
- [scsi] remove printk's when doing I/O to a dead device (John Sobecki, Chris Mason)
[orabug 12342275]
- [char] ipmi: Fix IPMI errors due to timing problems (Joe Jin) [orabug 12561346]
- [scsi] Fix race when removing SCSI devices (Joe Jin) [orabug 12404566]
- [net] net: Redo the broken redhat netconsole over bonding (Tina Yang) [orabug 12740042]
- [fs] nfs: Fix __put_nfs_open_context() NULL pointer panic (Joe Jin) [orabug 12687646]
- [scsi] fix scsi hotplug and rescan race [orabug 10260172]
- fix filp_close() race (Joe Jin) [orabug 10335998]
- make xenkbd.abs_pointer=1 by default [orabug 67188919]
- [xen] check to see if hypervisor supports memory reservation change
(Chuck Anderson) [orabug 7556514]
- [net] Enable entropy for bnx2,bnx2x,e1000e,igb,ixgb,ixgbe,ixgbevf (John Sobecki)
[orabug 10315433]
- [NET] Add xen pv netconsole support (Tina Yang) [orabug 6993043] [bz 7258]
- [mm] shrink_zone patch (John Sobecki,Chris Mason) [orabug 6086839]
- fix aacraid not to reset during kexec (Joe Jin) [orabug 8516042]
- [rds] Patch rds to 1.4.2-20 (Andy Grover) [orabug 9471572, 9344105]
RDS: Fix BUG_ONs to not fire when in a tasklet
ipoib: Fix lockup of the tx queue
RDS: Do not call set_page_dirty() with irqs off (Sherman Pun)
RDS: Properly unmap when getting a remote access error (Tina Yang)
RDS: Fix locking in rds_send_drop_to()
- [xen] PVHVM guest with PoD crashes under memory pressure (Chuck Anderson)
[orabug 9107465]
+- [xen] PV guest with FC HBA hangs during shutdown (Chuck Anderson)
[orabug 9764220]
- Support 256GB+ memory for pv guest (Mukesh Rathor) [orabug 9450615]
- fix overcommit memory to use percpu_counter for el5 (KOSAKI Motohiro,
Guru Anbalagane) [orabug 6124033]
- [ipmi] make configurable timeouts for kcs of ipmi [orabug 9752208]
- [ib] fix memory corruption (Andy Grover) [orabug 9972346]

[2.6.18-308.8.2.el5]
- [xen] x86_64: check address on trap handlers or guest callbacks (Paolo Bonzini) [813430 813431] {CVE-2012-0217}
- [xen] x86_64: Do not execute sysret with a non-canonical return address (Paolo Bonzini) [813430 813431] {CVE-2012-0217}
- [xen] x86: prevent hv boot on AMD CPUs with Erratum 121 (Laszlo Ersek) [824969 824970]

ocfs2:

[1.4.10]
- ocfs2/dlm: Cleanup mlogs in dlmthread.c dlmast.c and dlmdomain.c
- ocfs2/dlm: make existing conversion precedent over new lock
- ocfs2/dlm: Cleanup dlmdebug.c
- ocfs2/dlm: Minor cleanup
- ocfs2/dlm: Hard code the values for enums
- ocfs2: Wakeup down convert thread just after clearing OCFS2 LOCK UPCONVERT FINISHING
- ocfs2/dlm: ... [Please see the references for more information on the vulnerabilities]

Affected Software/OS:
'kernel, ocfs2-2.6.18-308.8.2.0.1.el5, oracleasm-2.6.18-308.8.2.0.1.el5' package(s) on Oracle Linux 5.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.2

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2012-0217
Cert/CC Advisory: TA12-164A
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-164A.html
CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#649219
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/649219
Debian Security Information: DSA-2501 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2501
Debian Security Information: DSA-2508 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2508
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/28718/
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46508/
FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-12:04
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:04.sysret.asc
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:150
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-06/msg00001.html
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-06/msg01072.html
Microsoft Security Bulletin: MS12-042
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-042
NETBSD Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2012-003
http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2012-003.txt.asc
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15596
http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2012-2934
BugTraq ID: 53961
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53961
http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/25759.pdf
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-06/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/51413
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2012:1572 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00017.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2012:1573 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00018.html
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