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OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0111)

high Nessus Plugin ID 100585

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Synopsis

The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates :

 - net/packet: fix overflow in check for tp_reserve (Andrey Konovalov) [Orabug: 26143545] (CVE-2017-7308)

 - net/packet: fix overflow in check for tp_frame_nr (Andrey Konovalov) [Orabug: 26143545] (CVE-2017-7308)

 - net/packet: fix overflow in check for priv area size (Andrey Konovalov) [Orabug: 26143545] (CVE-2017-7308)

 - dccp/tcp: do not inherit mc_list from parent (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 26132091] (CVE-2017-8890)

Solution

Update the affected kernel-uek / kernel-uek-firmware packages.

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/oraclevm-errata/2017-June/000737.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 100585

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2017-0111.nasl

Version: 3.10

Type: local

Published: 6/2/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel-uek, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.4, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel-uek-firmware

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/1/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/29/2017

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (AF_PACKET packet_set_ring Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7308, CVE-2017-8890