OracleVM 3.2 : kernel-uek (OVMSA-2013-0003)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79495

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 :

- bonding: fixup typo in rlb mode of bond and bridge fix (Guru Anbalagane) [Orabug: 16069448]

- bonding: rlb mode of bond should not alter ARP originating via bridge (zheng.li) [Orabug: 14650975]

- compilation fix oracleasm typo (Maxim Uvarov)

- mm/hotplug: correctly add new zone to all other nodes' zone lists (Jiang Liu) [Orabug: 16020976 Bug-db: 14798] (CVE-2012-5517)

- Divide by zero in TCP congestion control Algorithm.
(Jesper Dangaard Brouer) [Orabug: 16020656 Bug-db:
14798] (CVE-2012-4565)

- Fix length of buffer copied in __nfs4_get_acl_uncached (Sachin Prabhu) [Bug- db: 14798] (CVE-2012-2375)

- Avoid reading past buffer when calling GETACL (Sachin Prabhu) [Bug-db: 14798] (CVE-2012-2375)

- Avoid beyond bounds copy while caching ACL (Sachin Prabhu) [Bug-db: 14798] (CVE-2012-2375)

- oracleasm: Introduce module parameter for block size selection (Martin K. Petersen) [Orabug: 15924773 16017829]

- kernel posttrans remove all crashkernel=* (Jason Luan) [Orabug: 15882974]

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0a925726

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79495

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2013-0003.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 11/26/2014

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 3.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel-uek, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel-uek-firmware, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.2

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/18/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/13/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2375, CVE-2012-4565, CVE-2012-5517

BID: 53615, 56346, 56527