OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2019-0014)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 124637

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 :

- ib_core: initialize shpd field when allocating 'struct ib_pd' (Mukesh Kacker) [Orabug: 29384815]

- Revert 'x86/apic: Make arch_setup_hwirq NUMA node aware' (Brian Maly) [Orabug: 29542185]

- qlcnic: fix Tx descriptor corruption on 82xx devices (Shahed Shaikh) [Orabug: 27708787]

- block: Fix a race between blk_cleanup_queue and timeout handling (Bart Van Assche) [Orabug: 29158186]

- can: gw: ensure DLC boundaries after CAN frame modification (Oliver Hartkopp) [Orabug: 29215299] (CVE-2019-3701) (CVE-2019-3701)

- CIFS: Enable encryption during session setup phase (Pavel Shilovsky) [Orabug: 29338239] (CVE-2018-1066)

- ext4: clear i_data in ext4_inode_info when removing inline data (Theodore Ts'o) [Orabug: 29540709] (CVE-2018-10881) (CVE-2018-10881)

- ext4: add more inode number paranoia checks (Theodore Ts'o) [Orabug: 29545566] (CVE-2018-10882) (CVE-2018-10882)

- Revert 'KVM: nVMX: Eliminate vmcs02 pool' (Boris Ostrovsky) [Orabug: 29542029]

- Revert 'KVM: VMX: introduce alloc_loaded_vmcs' (Boris Ostrovsky) [Orabug: 29542029]

- Revert 'KVM: VMX: make MSR bitmaps per-VCPU' (Boris Ostrovsky) [Orabug: 29542029]

- Revert 'KVM: x86: pass host_initiated to functions that read MSRs' (Boris Ostrovsky) [Orabug: 29542029]

- Revert 'KVM/x86: Add IBPB support' (Boris Ostrovsky) [Orabug: 29542029]

- Revert 'KVM/VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL - reloaded' (Boris Ostrovsky) [Orabug: 29542029]

- Revert 'KVM/SVM: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL' (Boris Ostrovsky) [Orabug: 29542029]

- Revert 'KVM: SVM: Add MSR-based feature support for serializing LFENCE' (Boris Ostrovsky) [Orabug: 29542029]

- Revert 'x86/cpufeatures: rename X86_FEATURE_AMD_SSBD to X86_FEATURE_LS_CFG_SSBD' (Boris Ostrovsky) [Orabug:
29542029]

- Revert 'x86/bugs: Add AMD's SPEC_CTRL MSR usage' (Boris Ostrovsky) [Orabug: 29542029]

- Revert 'x86/bugs: Fix the AMD SSBD usage of the SPEC_CTRL MSR' (Boris Ostrovsky) [Orabug: 29542029]

- arch: x86: remove unsued SET_IBPB from spec_ctrl.h (Mihai Carabas) [Orabug: 29336760]

- x86: cpu: microcode: fix late loading SpectreV2 bugs eval (Mihai Carabas) [Orabug: 29336760]

- x86: cpu: microcode: fix late loading SSBD and L1TF bugs eval (Mihai Carabas) [Orabug: 29336760]

- x86: cpu: microcode: Re-evaluate bugs in a CPU after microcode loading (Mihai Carabas) [Orabug: 29336760]

- x86: cpu: microcode: update flags for all cpus (Mihai Carabas) [Orabug: 29336760]

- x86/apic: Make arch_setup_hwirq NUMA node aware (Henry Willard) [Orabug: 29292411]

Solution

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

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/oraclevm-errata/2019-May/000936.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 124637

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2019-0014.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 5/6/2019

Updated: 5/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1066

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/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: 5/3/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1066, CVE-2018-10881, CVE-2018-10882, CVE-2019-3701