OracleVM 3.3 : glibc (OVMSA-2015-0003)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 80439

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 :

- Fix recursive dlopen (#1173469).

- Fix typo in res_send and res_query (#rh1172023).

- Fix crashes on invalid input in IBM gconv modules (CVE-2014-6040, #1139571).

- Fix wordexp to honour WRDE_NOCMD (CVE-2014-7817, #1170121).

Solution

Update the affected glibc / glibc-common / nscd packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2033fa93

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 80439

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2015-0003.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Published: 1/9/2015

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:glibc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:glibc-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:nscd, 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: 1/8/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/24/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-6040, CVE-2014-7817

BID: 69472, 71216