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OracleVM 3.3 : glibc (OVMSA-2016-0013) (GHOST)
high Nessus Plugin ID 88783
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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 :- Update fix for CVE-2015-7547 (#1296028).
- Create helper threads with enough stack for POSIX AIO and timers (#1301625).
- Fix CVE-2015-7547: getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow (#1296028).
- Support loading more libraries with static TLS (#1291270).
- Check for NULL arena pointer in _int_pvalloc (#1256890).
- Don't change no_dyn_threshold on mallopt failure (#1256891).
- Unlock main arena after allocation in calloc (#1256812).
- Enable robust malloc change again (#1256812).
- Fix perturbing in malloc on free and simply perturb_byte (#1256812).
- Don't fall back to mmap prematurely (#1256812).
- The malloc deadlock avoidance support has been temporarily removed since it triggers deadlocks in certain applications (#1244002).
- Fix ruserok check to reject, not skip, negative user checks (#1217186).
- Optimize ruserok function for large ~/.rhosts (#1217186).
- Fix crash in valloc due to the backtrace deadlock fix (#1207236).
- Fix buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r with misaligned buffer (#1209376, CVE-2015-1781).
- Avoid deadlock in malloc on backtrace (#1066724).
- Support running applications that use Intel AVX-512 (#1195453).
- Silence logging of record type mismatch for DNSSEC records (#1088301).
- Shrink heap on free when vm.overcommit_memory == 2 (#867679).
- Enhance nscd to detect any configuration file changes (#859965).
- Fix __times handling of EFAULT when buf is NULL (#1124204).
- Fix memory leak with dlopen and thread-local storage variables (#978098).
- Prevent getaddrinfo from writing DNS queries to random fd (CVE-2013-7423, - Implement userspace half of in6.h header coordination (#1053178).
- Correctely size relocation cache used by profiler (#1144132).
- Fix reuse of cached stack leading to bounds overrun of DTV (#1116050).
- Return failure in getnetgrent only when all netgroups have been searched (#1085312).
- Fix valgrind warning in nscd_stats (#1091915).
- Initialize xports array (#1159167).
- Fix tst-default-attr test to not fail on powerpc (#1023306).
- Fix parsing of numeric hosts in gethostbyname_r (CVE-2015-0235, #1183534).
- Fix typo in nscd/selinux.c (#1125307).
- Actually run test-iconv modules (#1176907).
- Fix recursive dlopen (#1154563).
- Fix crashes on invalid input in IBM gconv modules (CVE-2014-6040, #1172044).
- Fix wordexp to honour WRDE_NOCMD (CVE-2014-7817, #1171296).
- Fix typo in res_send and res_query (#rh1138769).
Solution
Update the affected glibc / glibc-common / nscd packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 88783
File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0013.nasl
Version: 2.26
Type: local
Family: OracleVM Local Security Checks
Published: 2/17/2016
Updated: 6/18/2024
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: High
Score: 8.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Temporal Score: 8.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 8.1
Temporal Score: 7.7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.3, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:glibc-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:nscd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:glibc
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: 2/16/2016
Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/24/2014
Exploitable With
Core Impact
Metasploit (Exim GHOST (glibc gethostbyname) Buffer Overflow)
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2013-7423, CVE-2014-6040, CVE-2014-7817, CVE-2015-0235, CVE-2015-1781, CVE-2015-7547
BID: 69472, 71216, 72325, 72844, 74255
IAVA: 2016-A-0053-S
TRA: TRA-2017-08