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

high Nessus Plugin ID 97079

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: 6.7

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, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel-uek-firmware, 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: 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