OracleVM 2.2 : kernel (OVMSA-2009-0033)

high Nessus Plugin ID 79470

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 :

- [security] require root for mmap_min_addr (Eric Paris) [518142 518143] (CVE-2009-2695)

- [md] prevent crash when accessing suspend_* sysfs attr (Danny Feng) [518135 518136] (CVE-2009-2849)

- [nfs] knfsd: fix NFSv4 O_EXCL creates (Jeff Layton) [522163 524521] (CVE-2009-3286)

- [fs] fix pipe null pointer dereference (Jeff Moyer) [530938 530939] (CVE-2009-3547)

- [net] r8169: balance pci_map/unmap pair, use hw padding (Ivan Vecera) [529143 515857] (CVE-2009-3613)

- [net] tc: fix uninitialized kernel memory leak (Jiri Pirko) [520994 520863](CVE-2009-3228)

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c6f5df51

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 79470

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2009-0033.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Published: 11/26/2014

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel-ovs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel-ovs-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:2.2

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: 11/16/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/18/2009

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2695, CVE-2009-2849, CVE-2009-3228, CVE-2009-3286, CVE-2009-3547, CVE-2009-3613

BID: 36304, 36472, 36706, 36901

CWE: 119, 200, 264, 362, 399