OracleVM 3.3 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0168)

high Nessus Plugin ID 104454

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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 :

 - nvme: Drop nvmeq->q_lock before dma_pool_alloc, so as to prevent hard lockups (Aruna Ramakrishna) [Orabug:
 25409587]

 - nvme: Handle PM1725 HIL reset (Martin K. Petersen) [Orabug: 26277600]

- char: lp: fix possible integer overflow in lp_setup (Willy Tarreau) [Orabug: 26403940] (CVE-2017-1000363)

 - ALSA: timer: Fix missing queue indices reset at SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_SELECT (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug:
 26403956] (CVE-2017-1000380)

 - ALSA: timer: Fix race between read and ioctl (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 26403956] (CVE-2017-1000380)

 - ALSA: timer: fix NULL pointer dereference in read/ioctl race (Vegard Nossum) [Orabug: 26403956] (CVE-2017-1000380)

 - ALSA: timer: Fix negative queue usage by racy accesses (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 26403956] (CVE-2017-1000380)

 - ALSA: timer: Fix race at concurrent reads (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 26403956] (CVE-2017-1000380)

 - ALSA: timer: Fix race among timer ioctls (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 26403956] (CVE-2017-1000380)

 - ipv6/dccp: do not inherit ipv6_mc_list from parent (WANG Cong) [Orabug: 26404005] (CVE-2017-9077)

 - ocfs2: fix deadlock issue when taking inode lock at vfs entry points (Eric Ren) [Orabug: 26427126] - ocfs2/dlmglue: prepare tracking logic to avoid recursive cluster lock (Eric Ren) [Orabug: 26427126] - ping:
 implement proper locking (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug:
 26540286] (CVE-2017-2671)

 - aio: mark AIO pseudo-fs noexec (Jann Horn) [Orabug:
 26643598] (CVE-2016-10044)

 - vfs: Commit to never having exectuables on proc and sysfs. (Eric W. Biederman) [Orabug: 26643598] (CVE-2016-10044)

 - vfs, writeback: replace FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK with SB_I_CGROUPWB (Tejun Heo) [Orabug: 26643598] (CVE-2016-10044)

 - x86/acpi: Prevent out of bound access caused by broken ACPI tables (Seunghun Han) [Orabug: 26643645] (CVE-2017-11473)

 - sctp: do not inherit ipv6_[mc|ac|fl]_list from parent (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 26650883] (CVE-2017-9075)

 - [media] saa7164: fix double fetch PCIe access condition (Steven Toth) [Orabug: 26675142] (CVE-2017-8831)

 - [media] saa7164: fix sparse warnings (Hans Verkuil) [Orabug: 26675142] (CVE-2017-8831)

 - fs: __generic_file_splice_read retry lookup on AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE (Abhi Das) [Orabug: 26797306] - timerfd: Protect the might cancel mechanism proper (Thomas Gleixner) [Orabug: 26899787] (CVE-2017-10661)

 - scsi: scsi_transport_iscsi: fix the issue that iscsi_if_rx doesn't parse nlmsg properly (Xin Long) [Orabug: 26988627] (CVE-2017-14489)

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?82da82bd

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 104454

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2017-0168.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Published: 11/8/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 6

Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Temporal Vector: E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: E:P/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:3.3

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: 11/7/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/7/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10044, CVE-2017-1000363, CVE-2017-1000380, CVE-2017-10661, CVE-2017-11473, CVE-2017-14489, CVE-2017-2671, CVE-2017-8831, CVE-2017-9075, CVE-2017-9077