OracleVM 3.3 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0231)

high Nessus Plugin ID 110581

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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 :

 - x86/fpu: Make eager FPU default (Mihai Carabas) [Orabug:
 28156176] (CVE-2018-3665)

 - KVM: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in write_mmio (Wanpeng Li) [Orabug: 27951287] (CVE-2017-17741) (CVE-2017-17741)

 - xfs: set format back to extents if xfs_bmap_extents_to_btree (Eric Sandeen) [Orabug:
 27989498] (CVE-2018-10323)

 - Bluetooth: Prevent stack info leak from the EFS element.
 (Ben Seri) [Orabug: 28030520] (CVE-2017-1000410) (CVE-2017-1000410)

 - ALSA: hrtimer: Fix stall by hrtimer_cancel (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 28058229] (CVE-2016-2549)

 - ALSA: timer: Harden slave timer list handling (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 28058229] (CVE-2016-2547) (CVE-2016-2548)

 - ALSA: timer: Fix double unlink of active_list (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 28058229] (CVE-2016-2545)

 - ALSA: seq: Fix missing NULL check at remove_events ioctl (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 28058229] (CVE-2016-2543)

 - ALSA: seq: Fix race at timer setup and close (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 28058229] (CVE-2016-2544)

 - ALSA: usb-audio: avoid freeing umidi object twice (Andrey Konovalov) [Orabug: 28058229] (CVE-2016-2384)

 - perf/hwbp: Simplify the perf-hwbp code, fix documentation (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 27947608] (CVE-2018-1000199)

 - Revert 'perf/hwbp: Simplify the perf-hwbp code, fix documentation' (Brian Maly) [Orabug: 27947608]

Solution

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

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/oraclevm-errata/2018-June/000866.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 110581

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2018-0231.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 6/18/2018

Updated: 9/27/2019

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7.2

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

Temporal Vector: 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:3.3

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: 6/15/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/27/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2384, CVE-2016-2543, CVE-2016-2544, CVE-2016-2545, CVE-2016-2547, CVE-2016-2548, CVE-2016-2549, CVE-2017-1000410, CVE-2017-17741, CVE-2018-1000199, CVE-2018-10323, CVE-2018-3665