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OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2016-0149) (Dirty COW)

high Nessus Plugin ID 94228

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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 :

 - mm: remove gup_flags FOLL_WRITE games from
 __get_user_pages (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 24927306] (CVE-2016-5195)

 - drivers/nvme: provide a module parameter for setting number of I/O queues (Shan Hai) [Orabug: 24914956]

 - blk-mq: improve warning for running a queue on the wrong CPU (Jens Axboe) [Orabug: 24914956]

 - blk-mq: fix freeze queue race (Shan Hai) [Orabug:
 24914956]

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?628128f5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 94228

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0149.nasl

Version: 2.18

Type: local

Published: 10/24/2016

Updated: 3/8/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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: 7.5

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:H/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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/22/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/10/2016

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 3/24/2022

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5195

IAVA: 2016-A-0306-S