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OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0119)

high Nessus Plugin ID 101198

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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 :

 - macsec: dynamically allocate space for sglist (Jason A.
 Donenfeld) [Orabug: 26368162] (CVE-2017-7477)

 - macsec: avoid heap overflow in skb_to_sgvec (Jason A.
 Donenfeld) [Orabug: 26368162] (CVE-2017-7477)

 - nfsd: check for oversized NFSv2/v3 arguments (J. Bruce Fields) [Orabug: 26366988] (CVE-2017-7645)

Solution

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

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/oraclevm-errata/2017-July/000747.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101198

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2017-0119.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Published: 7/3/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/1/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/18/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7477, CVE-2017-7645