OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2020-0032)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 139442

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 :

- uek-rpm: Add OL6 shim conflict for new signing key (Eric Snowberg) [Orabug: 31688239] - Revert 'certs: Add Oracle's new X509 cert into the kernel keyring' (Eric Snowberg) [Orabug: 31688223] - blk-mq: don't overwrite rq->mq_ctx (Jens Axboe) [Orabug: 31457304] - blk-mq:
mark ctx as pending at batch in flush plug path (Ming Lei) [Orabug: 31457304]

- scsi: qla2xxx: Fix stuck session in GNL (Quinn Tran) [Orabug: 31561461] - scsi: qla2xxx: Serialize session free in qlt_free_session_done (Quinn Tran) [Orabug:
31561461] - scsi: qla2xxx: v2: Change abort wait_loop from msleep to wait_event_timeout (Giridhar Malavali) [Orabug: 26932683] - scsi: qla2xxx: v2: Move ABTS code behind qpair (Quinn Tran) [Orabug: 31517449] - ocfs2:
change slot number type s16 to u16 (Junxiao Bi) [Orabug:
31027042] - ocfs2: fix value of OCFS2_INVALID_SLOT (Junxiao Bi) [Orabug: 31027042] - ocfs2: fix panic on nfs server over ocfs2 (Junxiao Bi) [Orabug: 31027042] - ocfs2: load global_inode_alloc (Junxiao Bi) [Orabug:
31027042] - ocfs2: avoid inode removal while nfsd is accessing it (Junxiao Bi) [Orabug: 31027042] - block_dev: don't test bdev->bd_contains when it is not stable (NeilBrown) [Orabug: 31554143] - KVM: x86: Remove spurious semicolon (Joao Martins) [Orabug: 31584727]

- media: rc: prevent memory leak in cx23888_ir_probe (Navid Emamdoost) [Orabug: 31351672] (CVE-2019-19054)

- vfio/pci: Fix SR-IOV VF handling with MMIO blocking (Alex Williamson) [Orabug: 31439671] (CVE-2020-12888)

- vfio/pci: Mask buggy SR-IOV VF INTx support (Alex Williamson) [Orabug: 31439671] (CVE-2020-12888)

- vfio-pci: Invalidate mmaps and block MMIO access on disabled memory (Alex Williamson) [Orabug: 31439671] (CVE-2020-12888) (CVE-2020-12888)

- vfio/pci: Pull BAR mapping setup from read-write path (Alex Williamson) [Orabug: 31439671] (CVE-2020-12888)

- vfio_pci: Enable memory accesses before calling pci_map_rom (Eric Auger) [Orabug: 31439671] (CVE-2020-12888)

- vfio-pci: Fault mmaps to enable vma tracking (Alex Williamson) [Orabug: 31439671] (CVE-2020-12888)

- vfio/type1: Support faulting PFNMAP vmas (Alex Williamson) [Orabug: 31439671] (CVE-2020-12888)

- mm: bring in additional flag for fixup_user_fault to signal unlock (Dominik Dingel) [Orabug: 31439671] (CVE-2020-12888)

- vfio/type1: Fix VA->PA translation for PFNMAP VMAs in vaddr_get_pfn (Sean Christopherson) [Orabug: 31439671] (CVE-2020-12888)

- x86/mitigations: reset default value for srbds_mitigation (Mihai Carabas) [Orabug: 31514993] - x86/cpu: clear X86_BUG_SRBDS before late loading (Mihai Carabas) [Orabug: 31514993] - x86/mitigations: update MSRs on all CPUs for SRBDS (Mihai Carabas) [Orabug:
31514993] - Revert 'x86/efi: Request desired alignment via the PE/COFF headers' (Matt Fleming) [Orabug:
31602576]

- can, slip: Protect tty->disc_data in write_wakeup and close with RCU (Richard Palethorpe) [Orabug: 31516085] (CVE-2020-14416)

- scsi: qla2xxx: Fix warning in qla2x00_async_iocb_timeout [Orabug: 31530589] - scsi: qla2xxx: Fix NULL pointer access for fcport structure (Quinn Tran) [Orabug:
31530589]

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ccf50329

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 139442

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2020-0032.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 8/10/2020

Updated: 2/26/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 3.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14416

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-12888

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: 8/7/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/18/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-19054, CVE-2020-12888, CVE-2020-14416