OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2019-0039)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 127566

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 :

- xen: let alloc_xenballooned_pages fail if not enough memory free (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 30073695]

- mm/page_alloc.c: calculate 'available' memory in a separate function (Igor Redko) [Orabug: 30073695]

- Input: gtco - bounds check collection indent level (Grant Hernandez) [Orabug: 30074413] (CVE-2019-13631)

- Documentation/Docbook/Makefile: process xml files in parallel, based on nproc --all value (Alexander Burmashev) [Orabug: 30079814]

- net: rds: fix compile warning (Zhu Yanjun) [Orabug:
30118035]

- Revert 'xen-netback: stop netif TX queue on guest queuing failure' (Brian Maly) [Orabug: 30128203]

- xen-netback: stop netif TX queue on guest queuing failure (Ankur Arora) [Orabug: 30028200]

- scsi: megaraid_sas: fix panic on loading firmware crashdump (Junxiao Bi) [Orabug: 29993112]

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?9ff6ba96

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 127566

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2019-0039.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 5/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-13631

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/11/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/17/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-13631