OracleVM 3.4 : dhcp (OVMSA-2018-0023)

high Nessus Plugin ID 107248

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 :

- Added oracle-errwarn-message.patch

- Resolves: #1550085 - CVE-2018-5733 Avoid reference overflow

<[12:4.1.1-53.P1.2

- Resolves: #1550083 - CVE-2018-5732 Avoid options buffer overflow

- Resolves: #1063217 - failover hangs with both potential-conflict

- Resolves: #1363790 - dhclient does not update routing table after the lease &nbsp expiry

- Resolves: #1321945 - dhclient hook script for Azure cloud

- send unicast request/release via correct interface (#1297445)

- Lease table overflow crash. (#1133917)

- Add ignore-client-uids option. (#1196768)

- dhclient-script: it's OK if the arping reply comes from our system. (#1204095)

- VLAN ID is only bottom 12-bits of TCI. (#1259552)

- dhclient: Make sure link-local address is ready in stateless mode. (#1263466)

- dhclient-script: make_resolv_conf: Keep old nameservers &nbsp if server sends domain-name/search, but no nameservers. (#1269595)

Solution

Update the affected dhclient / dhcp-common packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?cf73ec61

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 107248

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2018-0023.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 3/9/2018

Updated: 7/10/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:dhclient, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:dhcp-common, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.4

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/8/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/16/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5732, CVE-2018-5733

IAVB: 2018-B-0034-S