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OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0253)

high Nessus Plugin ID 112282

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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 :

 - rebuild bumping release

 - Cipso: cipso_v4_optptr enter infinite loop (yujuan.qi) [Orabug: 28563992] (CVE-2018-10938)

 - Btrfs: fix list_add corruption and soft lockups in fsync (Liu Bo)

- x86/paravirt: Fix spectre-v2 mitigations for paravirt guests (Peter Zijlstra) [Orabug: 28474643] (CVE-2018-15594)

 - sym53c8xx: fix NULL pointer dereference panic in sym_int_sir in sym_hipd.c (George Kennedy) [Orabug:
 28481893]

 - md/raid1: Avoid raid1 resync getting stuck (Jes Sorensen) [Orabug: 28529228]

 - x86/spectrev2: Don't set mode to SPECTRE_V2_NONE when retpoline is available. (Boris Ostrovsky) [Orabug:
 28540376]

 - ext4: avoid deadlock when expanding inode size (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 25718971]

 - ext4: properly align shifted xattrs when expanding inodes (Jan Kara)

- ext4: fix xattr shifting when expanding inodes part 2 (Jan Kara)

- ext4: fix xattr shifting when expanding inodes (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 25718971]

 - uek-rpm: Enable perf stripped binary (Victor Erminpour) [Orabug: 27801171]

 - nfsd: give out fewer session slots as limit approaches (J. Bruce Fields) [Orabug: 28023821]

 - nfsd: increase DRC cache limit (J. Bruce Fields) [Orabug: 28023821]

 - uek-rpm: config-debug: Turn off torture testing by default (Knut Omang) [Orabug: 28261886]

 - ipmi: Remove smi_msg from waiting_rcv_msgs list before handle_one_recv_msg (Junichi Nomura)

 - x86/mce/AMD: Give a name to MCA bank 3 when accessed with legacy MSRs (Yazen Ghannam) [Orabug: 28416303]

 - Fix up non-directory creation in SGID directories (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 28459477] (CVE-2018-13405)

 - scsi: libsas: defer ata device eh commands to libata (Jason Yan) [Orabug: 28459685] (CVE-2018-10021)

 - PCI: Allocate ATS struct during enumeration (Bjorn Helgaas) [Orabug: 28460092]

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c8217169

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 112282

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2018-0253.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 9/5/2018

Updated: 8/12/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-13405

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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:P/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: 9/4/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/11/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10021, CVE-2018-10938, CVE-2018-13405, CVE-2018-15594