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OracleVM 3.3 : glibc (OVMSA-2015-0003)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 80439

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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 :

 - Fix recursive dlopen (#1173469).

 - Fix typo in res_send and res_query (#rh1172023).

 - Fix crashes on invalid input in IBM gconv modules (CVE-2014-6040, #1139571).

 - Fix wordexp to honour WRDE_NOCMD (CVE-2014-7817, #1170121).

Solution

Update the affected glibc / glibc-common / nscd packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2033fa93

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 80439

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2015-0003.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Published: 1/9/2015

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:glibc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:glibc-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:nscd, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/OracleVM/release, Host/OracleVM/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/8/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/24/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-6040, CVE-2014-7817

BID: 69472, 71216