OracleVM 3.3 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0040)

high Nessus Plugin ID 97119

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 :

- crypto: algif_hash - Only export and import on sockets with data (Herbert Xu) [Orabug: 25417805] (CVE-2016-8646)

- USB: usbfs: fix potential infoleak in devio (Kangjie Lu) [Orabug: 25462760] (CVE-2016-4482)

- net: fix infoleak in llc (Kangjie Lu) [Orabug: 25462807] (CVE-2016-4485)

- af_unix: Guard against other == sk in unix_dgram_sendmsg (Rainer Weikusat) [Orabug: 25463996] (CVE-2013-7446)

- unix: avoid use-after-free in ep_remove_wait_queue (Rainer Weikusat) [Orabug: 25463996] (CVE-2013-7446)

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?995a591b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 97119

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2017-0040.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Published: 2/13/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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:3.3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/OracleVM/release, Host/OracleVM/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/28/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-7446, CVE-2016-4482, CVE-2016-4485, CVE-2016-8646