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OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2016-0174)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 95621
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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 :- ocfs2: fix trans extend while free cached blocks (Junxiao Bi)
- ocfs2: fix trans extend while flush truncate log (Junxiao Bi)
- ocfs2: extend enough credits for freeing one truncate record while replaying truncate records (Xue jiufei) [Orabug: 25136991]
- mpi: Fix NULL ptr dereference in mpi_powm [ver #3] (Andrey Ryabinin) [Orabug: 25154096] (CVE-2016-8650) (CVE-2016-8650)
- mlx4: avoid multiple free on id_map_ent (Wengang Wang) [Orabug: 25159035]
- NVMe: reduce queue depth as workaround for Samsung EPIC SQ errata (Ashok Vairavan) [Orabug: 25144380]
- sctp: validate chunk len before actually using it (Marcelo Ricardo Leitner) [Orabug: 25142868] (CVE-2016-9555)
- rebuild bumping release
Solution
Update the affected kernel-uek / kernel-uek-firmware packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 95621
File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0174.nasl
Version: 3.6
Type: local
Family: OracleVM Local Security Checks
Published: 12/8/2016
Updated: 1/4/2021
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Temporal Score: 7.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.8
Temporal Score: 8.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel-uek, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.4, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel-uek-firmware
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/OracleVM/release, Host/OracleVM/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 12/8/2016
Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/28/2016
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2016-8650, CVE-2016-9555