Virtuozzo 7 : readykernel-patch (VZA-2018-088)

high Nessus Plugin ID 121103

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 :

- Transforming an IPv6 socket to an IPv4 and then transforming it back to a listening socket could result in a kernel memory corruption. An unprivileged user on the host or in a container could exploit this to crash the kernel.

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: High

ID: 121103

File Name: Virtuozzo_VZA-2018-088.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Family: Virtuozzo Local Security Checks

Published: 1/11/2019

Updated: 6/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-9568

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:7, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:readykernel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/17/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-9568

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