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OracleVM 3.4 : kernel-uek (OVMSA-2016-0041)

high Nessus Plugin ID 90298

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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 :

 - rebuild bumping release

 - x86/iopl/64: properly context-switch IOPL on Xen PV (Andy Lutomirski) [Orabug: 22997978] (CVE-2016-3157)

 - fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c: fix bugs in hugetlb_vmtruncate_list (Mike Kravetz) [Orabug:
 22667863]

 - rebuild bumping release

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3f949646

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 90298

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0041.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Published: 4/1/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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:3.4

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/29/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/12/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3157