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OracleVM 3.3 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0105)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 100237

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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 :

 - nfsd: stricter decoding of write-like NFSv2/v3 ops (J.
 Bruce Fields) [Orabug: 25986990] (CVE-2017-7895)

 - fnic: Update fnic driver version to 1.6.0.24 (John Sobecki) [Orabug: 24448585]

 - xen-netfront: Rework the fix for Rx stall during OOM and network stress (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 25450703]

 - xen-netfront: Fix Rx stall during network stress and OOM (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 25450703]

 - ipv6: Skip XFRM lookup if dst_entry in socket cache is valid (Jakub Sitnicki)

 - uek-rpm: enable CONFIG_KSPLICE. (Jamie Iles) [Orabug:
 25549809]

 - ksplice: add sysctls for determining Ksplice features.
 (Jamie Iles)

- signal: protect SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE from unintentional clearing. (Jamie Iles) [Orabug: 25549809]

 - VSOCK: Fix lockdep issue. (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug:
 25559937]

 - VSOCK: sock_put wasn't safe to call in interrupt context (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 25559937]

 - IB/CORE: sync the resouce access in fmr_pool (Wengang Wang) [Orabug: 25677469]

 - KVM: x86: fix emulation of 'MOV SS, null selector' (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 25719675] (CVE-2017-2583) (CVE-2017-2583)

 - ext4: validate s_first_meta_bg at mount time (Eryu Guan) [Orabug: 25719738] (CVE-2016-10208)

 - sctp: avoid BUG_ON on sctp_wait_for_sndbuf (Marcelo Ricardo Leitner) [Orabug: 25719810] (CVE-2017-5986)

 - tcp: avoid infinite loop in tcp_splice_read (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 25720813] (CVE-2017-6214)

 - lpfc cannot establish connection with targets that send PRLI under P2P mode (Joe Jin) [Orabug: 25759083]

 - USB: visor: fix null-deref at probe (Johan Hovold) [Orabug: 25796594] (CVE-2016-2782)

 - ipc/shm: Fix shmat mmap nil-page protection (Davidlohr Bueso) [Orabug: 25797012] (CVE-2017-5669)

 - vhost: actually track log eventfd file (Marc-Andr&eacute Lureau) [Orabug: 25797052] (CVE-2015-6252)

 - xfrm_user: validate XFRM_MSG_NEWAE incoming ESN size harder (Andy Whitcroft) [Orabug: 25814663] (CVE-2017-7184)

 - xfrm_user: validate XFRM_MSG_NEWAE XFRMA_REPLAY_ESN_VAL replay_window (Andy Whitcroft) [Orabug: 25814663] (CVE-2017-7184)

 - KEYS: Remove key_type::match in favour of overriding default by match_preparse (Aniket Alshi) [Orabug:
 25823962] (CVE-2017-2647) (CVE-2017-2647)

 - USB: whiteheat: fix potential null-deref at probe (Johan Hovold) [Orabug: 25825105] (CVE-2015-5257) (CVE-2015-5257)

 - udf: Check path length when reading symlink (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 25871102] (CVE-2015-9731)

 - udp: properly support MSG_PEEK with truncated buffers (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 25876655] (CVE-2016-10229)

 - block: fix use-after-free in seq file (Vegard Nossum) [Orabug: 25877530] (CVE-2016-7910)

 - Revert 'fix minor infoleak in get_user_ex' (Brian Maly) [Orabug: 25790392] (CVE-2016-9644)

 - net: ping: check minimum size on ICMP header length (Kees Cook) [Orabug: 25766911] (CVE-2016-8399)

 - ipv6: stop sending PTB packets for MTU < 1280 (Hagen Paul Pfeifer) [Orabug: 25765776] (CVE-2016-10142)

 - sg_write/bsg_write is not fit to be called under KERNEL_DS (Al Viro) [Orabug: 25765445] (CVE-2016-10088)

 - scsi: sg: check length passed to SG_NEXT_CMD_LEN (peter chang) [Orabug: 25751996] (CVE-2017-7187)

Solution

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

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/oraclevm-errata/2017-May/000727.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 100237

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2017-0105.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Published: 5/17/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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: 8.8

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: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:3.3

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: 5/16/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/19/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5257, CVE-2015-6252, CVE-2015-9731, CVE-2016-10088, CVE-2016-10142, CVE-2016-10208, CVE-2016-10229, CVE-2016-2782, CVE-2016-7910, CVE-2016-8399, CVE-2016-9644, CVE-2017-2583, CVE-2017-2647, CVE-2017-5669, CVE-2017-5986, CVE-2017-6214, CVE-2017-7184, CVE-2017-7187, CVE-2017-7895