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OracleVM 3.2 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2016-0167)

high Nessus Plugin ID 95366

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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 :

 - aacraid: Check size values after double-fetch from user (Dave Carroll) [Orabug: 25060055] (CVE-2016-6480) (CVE-2016-6480)

 - audit: fix a double fetch in audit_log_single_execve_arg (Paul Moore) [Orabug: 25059962] (CVE-2016-6136)

 - ecryptfs: don't allow mmap when the lower fs doesn't support it (Jeff Mahoney) [Orabug: 24971918] (CVE-2016-1583) (CVE-2016-1583)

 - ALSA: timer: Fix leak in events via snd_timer_user_tinterrupt (Kangjie Lu) [Orabug:
 25059900] (CVE-2016-4578)

 - ALSA: timer: Fix leak in events via snd_timer_user_ccallback (Kangjie Lu) [Orabug: 25059900] (CVE-2016-4578)

 - ALSA: timer: Fix leak in SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_PARAMS (Kangjie Lu) [Orabug: 25059755] (CVE-2016-4569)

 - Bluetooth: Fix potential NULL dereference in RFCOMM bind callback (Jaganath Kanakkassery) [Orabug: 25058905] (CVE-2015-8956)

 - mm: migrate dirty page without clear_page_dirty_for_io etc (Hugh Dickins) [Orabug: 25059195] (CVE-2016-3070)

 - intel_idle: Fix C0 state for BDW (Guru Anbalagane) [Orabug: 25024180]

 - intel_idle: update Broadwell cstates (Brian Maly) [Orabug: 25024180]

 - Revert 'ecryptfs: forbid opening files without mmap handler' (Brian Maly) [Orabug: 24971918]

 - ocfs2: o2hb: fix hb hung time (Junxiao Bi)

 - ocfs2: o2hb: don't negotiate if last hb fail (Junxiao Bi)

 - ocfs2: o2hb: add some user/debug log (Junxiao Bi)

 - ocfs2: o2hb: add NEGOTIATE_APPROVE message (Junxiao Bi)

 - ocfs2: o2hb: add NEGO_TIMEOUT message (Junxiao Bi)

 - ocfs2: o2hb: add negotiate timer (Junxiao Bi)

 - ecryptfs: forbid opening files without mmap handler (Jann Horn) [Orabug: 24971919] (CVE-2016-1583)

 - RDS: IB: fix panic with handlers running post teardown (Santosh Shilimkar) [Orabug: 24314773]

 - ocfs2: improve recovery performance (Junxiao Bi) [Orabug: 24589532]

 - ocfs2: call ocfs2_journal_access_di before ocfs2_journal_dirty in ocfs2_write_end_nolock (Junxiao Bi) [Orabug: 24606864]

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?052c0284

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 95366

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0167.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Published: 11/28/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

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:P/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:3.2

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/25/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/23/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8956, CVE-2016-1583, CVE-2016-3070, CVE-2016-4569, CVE-2016-4578, CVE-2016-6136, CVE-2016-6480