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OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2019-0007) (Spectre)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 122087

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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 :

 - x86/bugs: Fix the AMD SSBD usage of the SPEC_CTRL MSR (Tom Lendacky) [Orabug: 28870524] (CVE-2018-3639)

 - x86/bugs: Add AMD's SPEC_CTRL MSR usage (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk) [Orabug: 28870524] (CVE-2018-3639)

 - x86/cpufeatures: rename X86_FEATURE_AMD_SSBD to X86_FEATURE_LS_CFG_SSBD (Mihai Carabas) [Orabug:
 28870524] (CVE-2018-3639)

 - Make file credentials available to the seqfile interfaces (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 29114879] (CVE-2018-17972)

 - proc: restrict kernel stack dumps to root (Jann Horn) [Orabug: 29114879] (CVE-2018-17972)

 - x86/speculation: Clean up retpoline code in bugs.c (Alejandro Jimenez) [Orabug: 29211617]

 - x86, modpost: Replace last remnants of RETPOLINE with CONFIG_RETPOLINE (WANG Chao) [Orabug: 29211617]

 - x86/build: Fix compiler support check for CONFIG_RETPOLINE (Masahiro Yamada) [Orabug: 29211617]

 - x86/retpoline: Remove minimal retpoline support (Zhenzhong Duan) [Orabug: 29211617]

 - x86/retpoline: Make CONFIG_RETPOLINE depend on compiler support (Zhenzhong Duan) [Orabug: 29211617]

 - nl80211: check for the required netlink attributes presence (Vladis Dronov) [Orabug: 29245533] (CVE-2017-12153) (CVE-2017-12153)

 - scsi: lpfc: Fix PT2PT PRLI reject (reapply patch) (James Smart) [Orabug: 29281346]

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?66ac1732

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 122087

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2019-0007.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 2/11/2019

Updated: 6/21/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-17972

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-3639

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: 2/8/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/21/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12153, CVE-2018-17972, CVE-2018-3639