OracleVM 3.2 : rpm (OVMSA-2016-0077)

high Nessus Plugin ID 91753

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 :

- Add missing files in /usr/share/doc/

- Fix warning when applying the patch for #1163057

- Fix race condidition where unchecked data is exposed in the file system (CVE-2013-6435)(#1163057)

- Fix segfault on rpmdb addition when header unload fails (#706935)

- Fix segfault on invalid OpenPGP packet (#743203)

- Account for excludes and hardlinks wrt payload max size (#716853)

- Fix payload size tag generation on big-endian systems (#648516)

- Track all install failures within a transaction (#671194)

- fix changelog (bug #707677 is actually #808547)

- Document -D and -E options in man page (#814602)

- Require matching arch for freshen on colored transactions (#813282)

- Add DWARF 3 and 4 support to debugedit (#808547)

- No longer add \n to group tag in Python bindings (#783451)

- Fix typos in Japanese rpm man page (#760552)

- Bump Geode compatibility up to i686 (#620570)

- Proper region tag validation on package/header read (CVE-2012-0060)

- Double-check region size against header size (CVE-2012-0061)

- Validate negated offsets too in headerVerifyInfo (CVE-2012-0815)

- Revert fix for #740291, too many packages rely on the broken behavior

- Add support for XZ-compressed sources and patches to rpmbuild (#620674)

- Avoid unnecessary assert-death when closing NULL fd (#573043)

- Add scriptlet error notification callbacks (#533831)

- Honor --noscripts for pre- and posttrans scriptlets too (#740345)

- Avoid bogus error on printing empty ds from python (#628883)

- File conflicts correctness & consistency fixes (#740291)

- Create the directory used for transaction lock if necessary (#510469)

- Only enforce default umask during transaction (#673821)

- fix thinko in the CVE backport

- fix CVE-2011-3378 (#742157)

- accept windows cr/lf line endings in gpg keys (#530212)

- Backport multilib ordering fixes from rpm 4.8.x (#641892)

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/oraclevm-errata/2016-June/000492.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 91753

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0077.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Published: 6/22/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:popt, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:rpm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:rpm-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:rpm-python, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.2

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/21/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/24/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3378, CVE-2012-0060, CVE-2012-0061, CVE-2012-0815, CVE-2013-6435

BID: 49799, 52865, 71558