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OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0039)

high Nessus Plugin ID 97079

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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 :

 - vfio/pci: Fix integer overflows, bitmask check (Vlad Tsyrklevich) [Orabug: 25164094] (CVE-2016-9083) (CVE-2016-9084)

 - Don't feed anything but regular iovec's to blk_rq_map_user_iov (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 25231931] (CVE-2016-9576)

 - kvm: x86: Check memopp before dereference (CVE-2016-8630) (Owen Hofmann) [Orabug: 25417387] (CVE-2016-8630)

 - crypto: algif_hash - Only export and import on sockets with data (Herbert Xu) [Orabug: 25417799] (CVE-2016-8646)

 - USB: usbfs: fix potential infoleak in devio (Kangjie Lu) [Orabug: 25462755] (CVE-2016-4482)

 - net: fix infoleak in llc (Kangjie Lu) [Orabug: 25462799] (CVE-2016-4485)

 - xen-netback: fix extra_info handling in xenvif_tx_err (Paul Durrant) [Orabug: 25445336]

 - net: Documentation: Fix default value tcp_limit_output_bytes (Niklas Cassel) [Orabug:
 25458076]

 - tcp: double default TSQ output bytes limit (Wei Liu) [Orabug: 25458076]

 - xenbus: fix deadlock on writes to /proc/xen/xenbus (David Vrabel)

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?23a1489f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 97079

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2017-0039.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Published: 2/9/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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: 6.8

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: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: 2/8/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/23/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4482, CVE-2016-4485, CVE-2016-8630, CVE-2016-8646, CVE-2016-9083, CVE-2016-9084, CVE-2016-9576