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OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2016-0094)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 92782

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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 :

 - KEYS: potential uninitialized variable (Dan Carpenter) [Orabug: 24393865] (CVE-2016-4470)

 - ovl: fix permission checking for setattr (Miklos Szeredi) [Orabug: 24393742] (CVE-2015-8660)

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e5d6a549

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 92782

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0094.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Published: 8/8/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/5/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/28/2015

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Overlayfs Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8660, CVE-2016-4470