OracleVM 3.3 / 3.4 : glibc (OVMSA-2018-0235)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 110884

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 :

- backport rh patch 1047983 from OL7, Orabug 25407655

- CVE-2017-15670: glob: Fix one-byte overflow with GLOB_TILDE (#1504810)

- CVE-2017-15804: glob: Fix buffer overflow in GLOB_TILDE unescaping (#1504810)

- Avoid large allocas in the dynamic linker (#1452717)

- Fix thread cancellation issues for setmntent and others (#1437147).

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/oraclevm-errata/2018-July/000870.html

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/oraclevm-errata/2018-July/000871.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 110884

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2018-0235.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 7/3/2018

Updated: 9/27/2019

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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:glibc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:glibc-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:glibc-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:glibc-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:nscd, 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

Patch Publication Date: 7/2/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/20/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15670, CVE-2017-15804