Virtuozzo 7 : readykernel-patch (VZA-2017-094)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 103880

Synopsis

The remote Virtuozzo host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the vzkernel package and the readykernel-patch installed, the Virtuozzo installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

- A flaw was discovered in the key management subsystem of the Linux kernel. It allowed to pass NULL payload with non-zero payload length as parameters to sys_add_key() and the KEYCTL_UPDATE operation of sys_keyctl(). A local unprivileged user could exploit this to cause a kernel crash (NULL pointer dereference).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Virtuozzo security advisory.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the readykernel patch.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 103880

File Name: Virtuozzo_VZA-2017-094.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Family: Virtuozzo Local Security Checks

Published: 10/18/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:readykernel, cpe:/o:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Virtuozzo/release, Host/Virtuozzo/rpm-list, Host/readykernel-info

Patch Publication Date: 10/16/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15274

Detections

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