OracleVM 3.2 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2016-0158) (Dirty COW)

high Nessus Plugin ID 94929

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, gup: close FOLL MAP_PRIVATE race (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 24928646] (CVE-2016-5195)

- HID: hiddev: validate num_values for HIDIOCGUSAGES, HIDIOCSUSAGES commands (Scott Bauer) [Orabug: 24798694] (CVE-2016-5829)

- Revert 'rds: skip rx/tx work when destroying connection' (Brian Maly) [Orabug: 24790158]

- netfilter: x_tables: speed up jump target validation (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 24690302] (CVE-2016-3134)

- netfilter: x_tables: enforce nul-terminated table name from getsockopt GET_ENTRIES (Pablo Neira Ayuso) [Orabug:
24690302] (CVE-2016-3134)

- netfilter: remove unused comefrom hookmask argument (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 24690302] (CVE-2016-3134)

- netfilter: x_tables: introduce and use xt_copy_counters_from_user (Florian Westphal) [Orabug:
24690302] (CVE-2016-3134)

- netfilter: x_tables: do compat validation via translate_table (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 24690302] (CVE-2016-3134)

- netfilter: x_tables: xt_compat_match_from_user doesn't need a retval (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 24690302] (CVE-2016-3134)

- netfilter: ip6_tables: simplify translate_compat_table args (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 24690302] (CVE-2016-3134)

- netfilter: ip_tables: simplify translate_compat_table args (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 24690302] (CVE-2016-3134)

- netfilter: arp_tables: simplify translate_compat_table args (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 24690302] (CVE-2016-3134)

- netfilter: x_tables: don't reject valid target size on some architectures (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 24690302] (CVE-2016-3134)

- netfilter: x_tables: validate all offsets and sizes in a rule (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 24690302] (CVE-2016-3134)

- netfilter: x_tables: check for bogus target offset (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 24690302] (CVE-2016-3134)

- netfilter: x_tables: check standard target size too (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 24690302] (CVE-2016-3134)

- netfilter: x_tables: add compat version of xt_check_entry_offsets (Florian Westphal) [Orabug:
24690302] (CVE-2016-3134)

- netfilter: x_tables: assert minimum target size (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 24690302] (CVE-2016-3134)

- netfilter: x_tables: kill check_entry helper (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 24690302] (CVE-2016-3134)

- netfilter: x_tables: add and use xt_check_entry_offsets (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 24690302] (CVE-2016-3134)

- netfilter: x_tables: validate targets of jumps (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 24690302] (CVE-2016-3134)

- netfilter: x_tables: fix unconditional helper (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 24690302] (CVE-2016-3134)

- netfilter: x_tables: validate targets of jumps (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 24690302] (CVE-2016-3134)

- netfilter: x_tables: don't move to non-existent next rule (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 24690302] (CVE-2016-3134)

- netfilter: x_tables: fix unconditional helper (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 24690302] (CVE-2016-3134)

- netfilter: x_tables: check for size overflow (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 24690302] (CVE-2016-3134)

- ocfs2: Fix double put of recount tree in ocfs2_lock_refcount_tree (Ashish Samant) [Orabug:
24587406]

- TTY: do not reset master's packet mode (Jiri Slaby) [Orabug: 24569399]

- ocfs2: Fix start offset to ocfs2_zero_range_for_truncate (Ashish Samant) [Orabug: 24500401]

- rds: skip rx/tx work when destroying connection (Wengang Wang)

- Revert 'IPoIB: serialize changing on tx_outstanding' (Wengang Wang)

- xen/events: document behaviour when scanning the start word for events (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 23083945]

- xen/events: mask events when changing their VCPU binding (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 23083945]

- xen/events: initialize local per-cpu mask for all possible events (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 23083945]

- IB/mlx4: Replace kfree with kvfree in mlx4_ib_destroy_srq (Wengang Wang) [Orabug: 22570922]

- NFS: Remove BUG_ON calls from the generic writeback code (Trond Myklebust) [Orabug: 22386565]

- ocfs2: return non-zero st_blocks for inline data (John Haxby)

- oracleasm: Classify device connectivity issues as global errors (Martin K. Petersen) [Orabug: 21760143]

- Btrfs: fix truncation of compressed and inlined extents (Divya Indi) [Orabug: 22307286] (CVE-2015-8374)

- Btrfs: fix file corruption and data loss after cloning inline extents (Divya Indi) [Orabug: 22307286] (CVE-2015-8374)

- netfilter: x_tables: make sure e->next_offset covers remaining blob size (Florian Westphal) [Orabug:
24682073] (CVE-2016-4997) (CVE-2016-4998)

- netfilter: x_tables: validate e->target_offset early (Florian Westphal) [Orabug: 24682071] (CVE-2016-4997) (CVE-2016-4998)

- rds: schedule local connection activity in proper workqueue (Ajaykumar Hotchandani) [Orabug: 22819661]

- ib_core: make wait_event uninterruptible in ib_flush_fmr_pool (Avinash Repaka) [Orabug: 24525022]

- net/mlx4: Support shutdown interface (Ajaykumar Hotchandani)

- KEYS: potential uninitialized variable (Dan Carpenter) [Orabug: 24393863] (CVE-2016-4470)

- atl2: Disable unimplemented scatter/gather feature (Ben Hutchings) [Orabug: 23703990] (CVE-2016-2117)

- mlx4_core: add module parameter to disable background init (Mukesh Kacker) [Orabug: 23292107]

- NFSv4: Don't decode fs_locations if we didn't ask for them... (Trond Myklebust) [Orabug: 23633714]

- mm/slab: Improve performance of slabinfo stats gathering (Aruna Ramakrishna) [Orabug: 23050884]

- offload ib subnet manager port and node get info query handling. (Rama Nichanamatlu) [Orabug: 22521735]

- fix typo/thinko in get_random_bytes (Tony Luck) [Orabug:
23726807]

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?77f7352c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 94929

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0158.nasl

Version: 2.13

Type: local

Published: 11/17/2016

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: 8.4

Temporal Score: 8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/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-firmware, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.2, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel-uek

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: 11/16/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/28/2015

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

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Linux Kernel 4.6.3 Netfilter Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8374, CVE-2016-2117, CVE-2016-3134, CVE-2016-4470, CVE-2016-4997, CVE-2016-4998, CVE-2016-5195, CVE-2016-5829

IAVA: 2016-A-0306-S