OracleVM 3.3 : dhcp (OVMSA-2018-0024)

high Nessus Plugin ID 107249

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 :

- Added oracle-errwarn-message.patch

- Resolves: #1550085 - CVE-2018-5733 Avoid reference overflow

<[12:4.1.1-53.P1.2

- Resolves: #1550083 - CVE-2018-5732 Avoid options buffer overflow

- Resolves: #1063217 - failover hangs with both potential-conflict

- Resolves: #1363790 - dhclient does not update routing table after the lease &nbsp expiry

- Resolves: #1321945 - dhclient hook script for Azure cloud

- send unicast request/release via correct interface (#1297445)

- Lease table overflow crash. (#1133917)

- Add ignore-client-uids option. (#1196768)

- dhclient-script: it's OK if the arping reply comes from our system. (#1204095)

- VLAN ID is only bottom 12-bits of TCI. (#1259552)

- dhclient: Make sure link-local address is ready in stateless mode. (#1263466)

- dhclient-script: make_resolv_conf: Keep old nameservers &nbsp if server sends domain-name/search, but no nameservers. (#1269595)

- Fix dhcrelay init script too. (#1187967)

- Actually take IB MAC address into account when creating seed (#1185075)

- Improve seeding the random number generator in dhclient (#1185075)

- Fix dhcrelay6 init script (#1187967)

- dhcrelay -6 was not working due to patch for #1001742 (#1151054)

- option 97 - pxe-client-id (#1058674)

- dhclient-script: PREINIT6: make sure link-local address is available (#1130804)

- dhcpd generates spurious responses when seeing requests &nbsp from vlans on plain interface (#1150587)

- Fix dhcpd/dhcrelay segfault if interface name longer than IFNAMSIZ (#1102662)

- Fix parsing of lease file dates & times on 64-bit platforms (#1099698)

- Fix dhcpd.leases reverting to root:root on every dhcpd start (#1067142) &nbsp New patch 'paranoia' merged with older 'paranoia-pid' patch

- Add init script for dhcrelay IPv6 version (#1053155)

- Fix handling of UDP packets with checksum 0xffff.
(#1015997)

- Add GUIDs in the DHCP logs for IPoIB. (#1064416)

- Rotate the lease file when running in v6 mode.
(#1053431)

- Resolves: #1001742 - dhclient: Make setsockopt not-fatal also for SO_REUSEPORT

- Resolves: #1001742 - dhclient: Bind socket to interface also for IPv6

- Don't crash on aliased infiniband interface. (#996518)

- various memory leaks in omapi (#978420)

- Modify the reply handling in the server code to send to a specified port &nbsp rather than to the source port for the incoming message. (#952126)

- Multiple key statements in zone definition causes inappropriate error (#919221)

- Make sure range6 is correct for subnet6 where it's declared (#902966)

- Relay no longer crashes, when DHCP packet is received over interface &nbsp without any IPv4 address assigned.
(#863936)

- Expose next-server DHCPv4 option to dhclient script.
(#658855)

Solution

Update the affected dhclient / dhcp-common packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?57dbebd9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 107249

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2018-0024.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 3/9/2018

Updated: 7/10/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:dhclient, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:dhcp-common, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.3

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/8/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/16/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5732, CVE-2018-5733

IAVB: 2018-B-0034-S