OracleVM 3.4 : kernel-uek (OVMSA-2025-0001)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 214334

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:

[4.1.12-124.93.1]- cachefiles: fix memory leak in cachefiles_add_cache() (Baokun Li) [Orabug: 36544657] {CVE-2024-26840}

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-2024-26840.html

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/OVMSA-2025-0001.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 214334

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2025-0001.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/17/2025

Updated: 1/17/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-26840

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/10/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/21/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-26840