OracleVM 3.3 / 3.4 : openssh (OVMSA-2017-0053)

high Nessus Plugin ID 99080

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 :

- Allow to use ibmca crypto hardware (#1397547)

- CVE-2015-8325: privilege escalation via user's PAM environment and UseLogin=yes (1405374)

- Fix missing hmac-md5-96 from server offer (#1373836)

- Prevent infinite loop when Ctrl+Z pressed at password prompt (#1218424)

- Remove RC4 cipher and MD5 based MAC from the default client proposal (#1373836)

- Resolve sftp force permission colision with umask (#1341747)

- Relax bits needed check to allow hmac-sha2-512 with gss-group1-sha1- (#1353359)

- close ControlPersist background process stderr when not in debug mode (#1335539)

- Do not add a message 'The agent has no identities.' in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (#1353410)

- ssh-copy-id: SunOS does not understand ~ (#1327547)

Solution

Update the affected openssh / openssh-clients / openssh-server packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?854d27aa

http://www.nessus.org/u?90daf6f4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 99080

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2017-0053.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Published: 3/30/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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: 6.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:openssh, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:openssh-clients, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:openssh-server, 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: 5/1/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8325