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OracleVM 3.3 : kernel-uek (OVMSA-2015-0056)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83108

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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 :

 - isofs: Fix unchecked printing of ER records (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 20930551] (CVE-2014-9584)

 - KEYS: close race between key lookup and freeing (Sasha Levin) [Orabug: 20930548] (CVE-2014-9529) (CVE-2014-9529)

 - mm: memcg: do not allow task about to OOM kill to bypass the limit (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] (CVE-2014-8171)

 - mm: memcg: do not declare OOM from __GFP_NOFAIL allocations (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] (CVE-2014-8171)

 - fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop into the allocator (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] (CVE-2014-8171)

 - mm: memcg: handle non-error OOM situations more gracefully (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] (CVE-2014-8171)

 - mm: memcg: do not trap chargers with full callstack on OOM (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] (CVE-2014-8171)

 - mm: memcg: rework and document OOM waiting and wakeup (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] (CVE-2014-8171)

 - mm: memcg: enable memcg OOM killer only for user faults (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] (CVE-2014-8171)

 - x86: finish user fault error path with fatal signal (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] (CVE-2014-8171)

 - arch: mm: pass userspace fault flag to generic fault handler (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] (CVE-2014-8171)

 - selinux: Permit bounded transitions under NO_NEW_PRIVS or NOSUID. (Stephen Smalley) [Orabug: 20930501] (CVE-2014-3215)

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a1c84d76

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83108

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2015-0056.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Published: 4/28/2015

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

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: p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel-uek, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel-uek-firmware, 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: 4/27/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/8/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3215, CVE-2014-8171, CVE-2014-9529, CVE-2014-9584

BID: 67341, 71880, 71883, 74293