Virtuozzo 7 : readykernel-patch (VZA-2017-101)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 104499

Synopsis

The remote Virtuozzo host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the vzkernel package and the readykernel-patch installed, the Virtuozzo installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

- A flaw was found in the implementation of associative arrays in the Linux kernel. A null pointer dereference could happen in assoc_array_apply_edit() due to incorrect node splitting.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Virtuozzo security advisory.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the readykernel patch.

See Also

https://help.virtuozzo.com/customer/portal/articles/2901381

http://www.nessus.org/u?408ba87a

http://www.nessus.org/u?e0521332

http://www.nessus.org/u?5dcaf8d9

http://www.nessus.org/u?c91b264e

http://www.nessus.org/u?b40e0384

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 104499

File Name: Virtuozzo_VZA-2017-101.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Published: 11/13/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:readykernel, cpe:/o:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Virtuozzo/release, Host/Virtuozzo/rpm-list, Host/readykernel-info

Patch Publication Date: 11/10/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12193