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OracleVM 3.3 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0237)

high Nessus Plugin ID 111022

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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 :

 - dm: fix race between dm_get_from_kobject and
 __dm_destroy (Hou Tao) (CVE-2017-18203)

 - drm: udl: Properly check framebuffer mmap offsets (Greg Kroah-Hartman) [Orabug: 27986407] (CVE-2018-8781)

 - kernel/exit.c: avoid undefined behaviour when calling wait4 wait4(-2147483648, 0x20, 0, 0xdd0000) triggers:
 UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in kernel/exit.c:1651:9 (mridula shastry) [Orabug: 27875488] (CVE-2018-10087)

 - kernel/signal.c: avoid undefined behaviour in kill_something_info When running kill(72057458746458112, 0) in userspace I hit the following issue. (mridula shastry) (CVE-2018-10124)

 - bluetooth: Validate socket address length in sco_sock_bind. (mlevatic) [Orabug: 28130293] (CVE-2015-8575)

 - dccp: check sk for closed state in dccp_sendmsg (Alexey Kodanev) [Orabug: 28220402] (CVE-2017-8824) (CVE-2018-1130)

 - sctp: verify size of a new chunk in _sctp_make_chunk (Alexey Kodanev) [Orabug: 28240075] (CVE-2018-5803)

 - mm/mempolicy.c: fix error handling in set_mempolicy and mbind. (Chris Salls) [Orabug: 28242478] (CVE-2017-7616)

 - xfrm: policy: check policy direction value (Vladis Dronov) [Orabug: 28264121] (CVE-2017-11600) (CVE-2017-11600)

 - x86/fpu: Make eager FPU default (Mihai Carabas) [Orabug:
 28156176] (CVE-2018-3665)

 - KVM: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in write_mmio (Wanpeng Li) [Orabug: 27951287] (CVE-2017-17741) (CVE-2017-17741)

 - xfs: set format back to extents if xfs_bmap_extents_to_btree (Eric Sandeen) [Orabug:
 27989498] (CVE-2018-10323)

 - Bluetooth: Prevent stack info leak from the EFS element.
 (Ben Seri) [Orabug: 28030520] (CVE-2017-1000410) (CVE-2017-1000410)

 - ALSA: hrtimer: Fix stall by hrtimer_cancel (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 28058229] (CVE-2016-2549)

 - ALSA: timer: Harden slave timer list handling (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 28058229] (CVE-2016-2547) (CVE-2016-2548)

 - ALSA: timer: Fix double unlink of active_list (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 28058229] (CVE-2016-2545)

 - ALSA: seq: Fix missing NULL check at remove_events ioctl (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 28058229] (CVE-2016-2543)

 - ALSA: seq: Fix race at timer setup and close (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 28058229] (CVE-2016-2544)

 - ALSA: usb-audio: avoid freeing umidi object twice (Andrey Konovalov) [Orabug: 28058229] (CVE-2016-2384)

 - perf/hwbp: Simplify the perf-hwbp code, fix documentation (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 27947608] (CVE-2018-1000199)

 - Revert 'perf/hwbp: Simplify the perf-hwbp code, fix documentation' (Brian Maly) [Orabug: 27947608]

Solution

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

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/oraclevm-errata/2018-July/000874.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 111022

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2018-0237.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 7/12/2018

Updated: 9/5/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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 Score Source: CVE-2018-8781

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:3.3, 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: 7/11/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/8/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8575, CVE-2016-2384, CVE-2016-2543, CVE-2016-2544, CVE-2016-2545, CVE-2016-2547, CVE-2016-2548, CVE-2016-2549, CVE-2017-1000410, CVE-2017-11600, CVE-2017-17741, CVE-2017-18203, CVE-2017-7616, CVE-2017-8824, CVE-2018-1000199, CVE-2018-10087, CVE-2018-10124, CVE-2018-10323, CVE-2018-1130, CVE-2018-3665, CVE-2018-5803, CVE-2018-8781