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OracleVM 3.3 / 3.4 : openssh (OVMSA-2017-0053)

high Nessus Plugin ID 99080

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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 :

 - Allow to use ibmca crypto hardware (#1397547)

 - CVE-2015-8325: privilege escalation via user's PAM environment and UseLogin=yes (1405374)

 - Fix missing hmac-md5-96 from server offer (#1373836)

 - Prevent infinite loop when Ctrl+Z pressed at password prompt (#1218424)

 - Remove RC4 cipher and MD5 based MAC from the default client proposal (#1373836)

 - Resolve sftp force permission colision with umask (#1341747)

 - Relax bits needed check to allow hmac-sha2-512 with gss-group1-sha1- (#1353359)

 - close ControlPersist background process stderr when not in debug mode (#1335539)

 - Do not add a message 'The agent has no identities.' in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (#1353410)

 - ssh-copy-id: SunOS does not understand ~ (#1327547)

Solution

Update the affected openssh / openssh-clients / openssh-server packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?854d27aa

http://www.nessus.org/u?90daf6f4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 99080

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2017-0053.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Published: 3/30/2017

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:openssh, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:openssh-clients, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:openssh-server, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.3, 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: 3/29/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/1/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8325