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OracleVM 3.3 : kernel-uek (OVMSA-2015-0060)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83485

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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 :

 - crypto: aesni

 - fix memory usage in GCM decryption (Stephan Mueller) [Orabug: 21077385] (CVE-2015-3331)

 - xen/pciback: Don't disable PCI_COMMAND on PCI device reset. (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk) [Orabug: 20807438] (CVE-2015-2150)

 - xen-blkfront: fix accounting of reqs when migrating (Roger Pau Monne) [Orabug: 20860817]

 - Doc/cpu-hotplug: Specify race-free way to register CPU hotplug callbacks (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - net/iucv/iucv.c: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - net/core/flow.c: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - mm, vmstat: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

- profile: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat)

- trace, ring-buffer: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - hwmon, via-cputemp: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat)

- hwmon, coretemp: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - octeon, watchdog: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - oprofile, nmi-timer: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - intel-idle: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - drivers/base/topology.c: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - acpi-cpufreq: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - scsi, fcoe: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

- scsi, bnx2fc: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - scsi, bnx2i: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - arm64, debug-monitors: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - arm64, hw_breakpoint.c: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - x86, kvm: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - x86, oprofile, nmi: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - x86, pci, amd-bus: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - x86, hpet: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - x86, intel, cacheinfo: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - x86, amd, ibs: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - x86, therm_throt.c: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - x86, mce: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - x86, intel, uncore: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - x86, vsyscall: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - x86, cpuid: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - x86, msr: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - powerpc, sysfs: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat)

- sparc, sysfs: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - s390, smp: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - s390, cacheinfo: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat)

- arm, hw-breakpoint: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - ia64, err-inject: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - ia64, topology: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - ia64, palinfo: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - CPU hotplug, perf: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug: 20917697]

 - CPU hotplug: Provide lockless versions of callback registration functions (Srivatsa S. Bhat) [Orabug:
 20917697]

 - 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)

 - IB/core: Prevent integer overflow in ib_umem_get address arithmetic (Shachar Raindel) [Orabug: 20799875] (CVE-2014-8159) (CVE-2014-8159)

Solution

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

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/oraclevm-errata/2015-May/000311.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83485

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2015-0060.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Published: 5/15/2015

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/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, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.3, 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: 5/14/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/8/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3215, CVE-2014-8159, CVE-2014-8171, CVE-2014-9529, CVE-2014-9584, CVE-2015-2150, CVE-2015-3331

BID: 67341, 71880, 71883, 73014, 73060, 74235, 74293