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OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2019-0056)

high Nessus Plugin ID 131208

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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 :

 - ocfs2: protect extent tree in ocfs2_prepare_inode_for_write (Shuning Zhang) [Orabug:
 30036349]

 - ocfs2: direct-IO: protect get_blocks (Junxiao Bi) [Orabug: 30036349]

 - SUNRPC: Remove xprt_connect_status (Trond Myklebust) [Orabug: 30165838]

 - SUNRPC: Handle ENETDOWN errors (Trond Myklebust) [Orabug: 30165838]

 - vhost: make sure log_num < in_num (yongduan) [Orabug:
 30312787] (CVE-2019-14835)

 - vhost: block speculation of translated descriptors (Michael S. Tsirkin) [Orabug: 30312787] (CVE-2019-14835)

 - vhost: Fix Spectre V1 vulnerability (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 30312787]

 - array_index_nospec: Sanitize speculative array de-references (Dan Williams) [Orabug: 30312787]

 - net: hsr: fix memory leak in hsr_dev_finalize (Mao Wenan) [Orabug: 30444853] (CVE-2019-16995)

 - ieee802154: enforce CAP_NET_RAW for raw sockets (Ori Nimron) [Orabug: 30444946] (CVE-2019-17053)

 - mISDN: enforce CAP_NET_RAW for raw sockets (Ori Nimron) [Orabug: 30445158] (CVE-2019-17055)

 - net: sit: fix memory leak in sit_init_net (Mao Wenan) [Orabug: 30445305] (CVE-2019-16994)

 - media: dvb: usb: fix use after free in dvb_usb_device_exit (Oliver Neukum) [Orabug: 30490491] (CVE-2019-15213)

 - media: cpia2_usb: first wake up, then free in disconnect (Oliver Neukum) [Orabug: 30511741] (CVE-2019-15215)

 - media: usb:zr364xx:Fix KASAN:null-ptr-deref Read in zr364xx_vidioc_querycap (Vandana BN) [Orabug: 30532774] (CVE-2019-15217)

 - target: Propagate backend read-only to core_tpg_add_lun (Nicholas Bellinger) [Orabug: 30538419]

 - kvm: mmu: ITLB_MULTIHIT mitigation selection (Kanth Ghatraju) [Orabug: 30539766]

 - cpu/speculation: Uninline and export CPU mitigations helpers (Kanth Ghatraju) [Orabug: 30539766]

 - rds: Use correct conn when dropping connections due to cancel (H&aring kon Bugge) [Orabug: 30316058]

 - rds: ib: Optimize rds_ib_laddr_check (H&aring kon Bugge) [Orabug: 30327671]

 - rds: Bring loop-back peer down as well (H&aring kon Bugge) [Orabug: 30271704]

 - rds: ib: Avoid connect retry on loopback connections (H&aring kon Bugge)

- rds: ib: Qualify CM REQ duplicate detection with connection being up (H&aring kon Bugge) [Orabug:
 30062150]

 - rds: Further prioritize local loop-back connections (H&aring kon Bugge)

- rds: Fix initial zero delay when queuing re-connect work (H&aring kon Bugge)

- rds: Re-introduce separate work-queue for local connections (H&aring kon Bugge) [Orabug: 30062150]

 - rds: Re-factor and avoid superfluous queuing of shutdown work (H&aring kon Bugge) [Orabug: 29994551]

 - rds: ib: Flush ARP cache when connection attempt is rejected (H&aring kon Bugge) [Orabug: 29994550]

 - rds: ib: Fix incorrect setting of cp_reconnect_racing (H&aring kon Bugge)

- RDMA/cma: Make # CM retries configurable (H&aring kon Bugge) [Orabug: 29994555]

 - rds: Re-factor and avoid superfluous queuing of reconnect work (H&aring kon Bugge) [Orabug: 29994558]

 - rds: ib: Correct the cm_id compare commit (H&aring kon Bugge) [Orabug: 29994560]

 - rds: Increase entropy in hashing (H&aring kon Bugge) [Orabug: 29994561]

 - rds: ib: Resurrect the CQs instead of delete+create (H&aring kon Bugge)

- rds: Avoid queuing superfluous send and recv work (H&aring kon Bugge)

- x86/tsx: Add config options to set tsx=on|off|auto (Michal Hocko) [Orabug: 30517133] (CVE-2019-11135)

 - x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async Abort (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 30517133] (CVE-2019-11135)

 - x86/tsx: Add 'auto' option to the tsx= cmdline parameter (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 30517133] (CVE-2019-11135)

 - kvm/x86: Export MDS_NO=0 to guests when TSX is enabled (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 30517133] (CVE-2019-11135)

 - x86/speculation/taa: Add sysfs reporting for TSX Async Abort (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 30517133] (CVE-2019-11135)

 - x86/speculation/taa: Add mitigation for TSX Async Abort (Kanth Ghatraju) [Orabug: 30517133] (CVE-2019-11135)

 - x86/cpu: Add a 'tsx=' cmdline option with TSX disabled by default (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 30517133] (CVE-2019-11135)

 - x86/cpu: Add a helper function x86_read_arch_cap_msr (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 30517133] (CVE-2019-11135)

 - x86/msr: Add the IA32_TSX_CTRL MSR (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 30517133] (CVE-2019-11135)

 - kvm: x86: mmu: Recovery of shattered NX large pages (Junaid Shahid) [Orabug: 30517059] (CVE-2018-12207)

 - kvm: Add helper function for creating VM worker threads (Junaid Shahid) [Orabug: 30517059] (CVE-2018-12207)

 - kvm: mmu: ITLB_MULTIHIT mitigation (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 30517059] (CVE-2018-12207)

 - KVM: x86: remove now unneeded hugepage gfn adjustment (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 30517059] (CVE-2018-12207)

 - KVM: x86: make FNAME(fetch) and __direct_map more similar (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 30517059] (CVE-2018-12207)

 - kvm: x86: Do not release the page inside mmu_set_spte (Junaid Shahid) [Orabug: 30517059] (CVE-2018-12207)

 - x86/cpu: Add Tremont to the cpu vulnerability whitelist (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 30517059] (CVE-2018-12207)

 - x86: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT bug infrastructure (Pawan Gupta) [Orabug: 30517059] (CVE-2018-12207)

 - KVM: x86: MMU: Move mapping_level_dirty_bitmap call in mapping_level (Takuya Yoshikawa) [Orabug: 30517059] (CVE-2018-12207)

 - Revert 'KVM: x86: use the fast way to invalidate all pages' (Sean Christopherson) [Orabug: 30517059] (CVE-2018-12207)

 - kvm: Convert kvm_lock to a mutex (Junaid Shahid) [Orabug: 30517059] (CVE-2018-12207)

 - KVM: x86: MMU: Simplify force_pt_level calculation code in FNAME(page_fault) (Takuya Yoshikawa) [Orabug:
 30517059] (CVE-2018-12207)

 - KVM: x86: MMU: Make force_pt_level bool (Takuya Yoshikawa) [Orabug: 30517059] (CVE-2018-12207)

 - KVM: x86: MMU: Remove unused parameter parent_pte from kvm_mmu_get_page (Takuya Yoshikawa) [Orabug: 30517059] (CVE-2018-12207)

 - KVM: x86: extend usage of RET_MMIO_PF_* constants (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 30517059] (CVE-2018-12207)

 - KVM: x86: MMU: Make mmu_set_spte return emulate value (Takuya Yoshikawa) [Orabug: 30517059] (CVE-2018-12207)

 - KVM: x86: MMU: Move parent_pte handling from kvm_mmu_get_page to link_shadow_page (Takuya Yoshikawa) [Orabug: 30517059] (CVE-2018-12207)

 - KVM: x86: MMU: Move initialization of parent_ptes out from kvm_mmu_alloc_page (Takuya Yoshikawa) [Orabug:
 30517059] (CVE-2018-12207)

 - scsi: qla2xxx: Fix NULL pointer crash due to probe failure [Orabug: 30161119]

 - i2c: core-smbus: prevent stack corruption on read I2C_BLOCK_DATA (Jeremy Compostella) [Orabug: 30210503] (CVE-2017-18551)

 - scsi: qla2xxx: Ability to process multiple SGEs in Command SGL for CT passthrough commands. (Giridhar Malavali) [Orabug: 30256423]

 - net-sysfs: Fix mem leak in netdev_register_kobject (YueHaibing) [Orabug: 30350263] (CVE-2019-15916)

 - Drivers: hv: vmbus: add special crash handler (Vitaly Kuznetsov)

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c252002b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 131208

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2019-0056.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 11/22/2019

Updated: 4/10/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14835

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: 11/21/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/19/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-18551, CVE-2018-12207, CVE-2019-11135, CVE-2019-14835, CVE-2019-15213, CVE-2019-15215, CVE-2019-15217, CVE-2019-15916, CVE-2019-16994, CVE-2019-16995, CVE-2019-17053, CVE-2019-17055