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OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2016-0097)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 93036

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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 :

 - tcp: make challenge acks less predictable (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 24010103] [Orabug: 2401010] (CVE-2016-5696)

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2d4dfcb7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 93036

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0097.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Published: 8/19/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

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: 8/18/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/6/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5696