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OracleVM 3.4 : kernel-uek (OVMSA-2016-0091)
high Nessus Plugin ID 92658
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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 :- vfs: rename: check backing inode being equal (Miklos Szeredi) [Orabug: 24010060] (CVE-2016-6198) (CVE-2016-6197)
- vfs: add vfs_select_inode helper (Miklos Szeredi) [Orabug: 24010060] (CVE-2016-6198) (CVE-2016-6197)
- ovl: verify upper dentry before unlink and rename (Miklos Szeredi) [Orabug: 24010060] (CVE-2016-6198) (CVE-2016-6197)
- ovl: fix getcwd failure after unsuccessful rmdir (Rui Wang) [Orabug: 24010060] (CVE-2016-6198) (CVE-2016-6197)
- xen: use same main loop for counting and remapping pages (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 24012238]
- Revert 'ocfs2: bump up o2cb network protocol version' (Junxiao Bi)
- atl2: Disable unimplemented scatter/gather feature (Ben Hutchings) [Orabug: 23704078] (CVE-2016-2117)
- Revert 'perf tools: Bump default sample freq to 4 kHz' (ashok.vairavan) [Orabug: 23634802]
- block: Initialize max_dev_sectors to 0 (Keith Busch) [Orabug: 23333444]
- sd: Fix rw_max for devices that report an optimal xfer size (Martin K. Petersen) [Orabug: 23333444]
- sd: Fix excessive capacity printing on devices with blocks bigger than 512 bytes (Martin K. Petersen) [Orabug: 23333444]
- sd: Optimal I/O size is in bytes, not sectors (Martin K.
Petersen)
- sd: Reject optimal transfer length smaller than page size (Martin K. Petersen) [Orabug: 23333444]
- Fix kabi issue for upstream commit ca369d51 (Joe Jin) [Orabug: 23333444]
- block/sd: Fix device-imposed transfer length limits (Joe Jin)
Solution
Update the affected kernel-uek / kernel-uek-firmware packages.See Also
https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/oraclevm-errata/2016-July/000506.html
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 92658
File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0091.nasl
Version: 2.7
Type: local
Family: OracleVM Local Security Checks
Published: 8/1/2016
Updated: 1/4/2021
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 6.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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: 7/29/2016
Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2016