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OracleVM 3.3 / 3.4 : coreutils (OVMSA-2017-0052)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 99079

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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 :

 - clean up empty file if cp is failed [Orabug 15973168]

 - pure rebuild to bring back support for acl_extended_file_nofollow on x86_64

 - su: deny killing other processes with root privileges (CVE-2017-2616)

 - fix the functionality of 'sort -h -k ...' in multi-byte locales (#1357979)

 - use correct path to grep(1) in colorls.sh (#1376892)

 - make colorls.sh compatible with ksh (#1321643)

 - sed should actually be /bin/sed (related #1222140)

 - colorls.sh,colorls.csh - call utilities with complete path (#1222140)

 - mkdir, mkfifo, mknod - respect default umask/acls when COREUTILS_CHILD_DEFAULT_ACLS envvar is set (to match rhel 7 behaviour,

 - ls: improve efficiency on filesystems without support for ACLs, xattrs or SELinux (#1248141)

 - su: suppress PAM info messages for -c or non-login sessions (#1267588)

 - tail, stat: recognize several new filesystems - up2date by Jan 1st 2016 (#1280333)

 - du: improve du error message of coreutils commands in a chrooted environment (patch by Boris Ranto) (#1086916)

 - su: fix incorrect message printing when su is killed (#1147532)

Solution

Update the affected coreutils / coreutils-libs packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?40167d41

http://www.nessus.org/u?7493a037

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 99079

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2017-0052.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Published: 3/30/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 3.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/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:oracle:vm:coreutils, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:coreutils-libs, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.3, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.4

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/29/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/27/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2616