OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2016-0149) (Dirty COW)

high Nessus Plugin ID 94228

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 :

- mm: remove gup_flags FOLL_WRITE games from
__get_user_pages (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 24927306] (CVE-2016-5195)

- drivers/nvme: provide a module parameter for setting number of I/O queues (Shan Hai) [Orabug: 24914956]

- blk-mq: improve warning for running a queue on the wrong CPU (Jens Axboe) [Orabug: 24914956]

- blk-mq: fix freeze queue race (Shan Hai) [Orabug:
24914956]

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?628128f5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 94228

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0149.nasl

Version: 2.18

Type: local

Published: 10/24/2016

Updated: 3/8/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.8

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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

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: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: 10/22/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/10/2016

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 3/24/2022

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5195

IAVA: 2016-A-0306-S