OracleVM 3.4 : kernel-uek (OVMSA-2024-0015)

high Nessus Plugin ID 210589

Synopsis

The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address security updates:

[4.1.12-124.91.3]- nfs_atomic_open(): prevent parallel nfs_lookup() on a negative hashed (Al Viro) [Orabug: 37006239][4.1.12-124.91.2]- vhost/scsi: null-ptr-dereference in vhost_scsi_get_req() (Haoran Zhang) [Orabug: 37035560][4.1.12-124.91.1]- vt_ioctl: fix array_index_nospec in vt_setactivate (Jakob Koschel) [Orabug: 37101899] {CVE-2022-48804}- tty: vt_ioctl: fix potential Spectre v1 (Gustavo A. R.
Silva) [Orabug: 37101899] {CVE-2022-48804}- USB: core: Fix hang in usb_kill_urb by adding memory barriers (Alan Stern) [Orabug: 37101883] {CVE-2022-48760}- smb: client: fix OOB in smbCalcSize() (Paulo Alcantara) [Orabug: 36165420] {CVE-2023-6606}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the OracleVM security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

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

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/cve/CVE-2022-48760.html

https://linux.oracle.com/cve/CVE-2022-48804.html

https://linux.oracle.com/cve/CVE-2023-6606.html

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/OVMSA-2024-0015.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 210589

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2024-0015.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 11/8/2024

Updated: 11/8/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-6606

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.4, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel-uek, 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: 11/5/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-48760, CVE-2022-48804, CVE-2023-6606