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OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0236)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 111021

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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 :

 - block: update integrity interval after queue limits change (Ritika Srivastava) [Orabug: 27586756]

 - dccp: check sk for closed state in dccp_sendmsg (Alexey Kodanev) [Orabug: 28001529] (CVE-2017-8824) (CVE-2018-1130)

 - net/rds: Implement ARP flushing correctly (H&aring kon Bugge) [Orabug: 28219857]

 - net/rds: Fix incorrect bigger vs. smaller IP address check (H&aring kon Bugge) [Orabug: 28236599]

 - ocfs2: Fix locking for res->tracking and dlm->tracking_list (Ashish Samant) [Orabug: 28256391]

 - xfrm: policy: check policy direction value (Vladis Dronov) [Orabug: 28256487] (CVE-2017-11600) (CVE-2017-11600)

 - add kernel param to pre-allocate NICs (Brian Maly) [Orabug: 27870400]

 - mm/mempolicy.c: fix error handling in set_mempolicy and mbind. (Chris Salls) [Orabug: 28242475] (CVE-2017-7616)

 - xhci: Fix USB3 NULL pointer dereference at logical disconnect. (Mathias Nyman) [Orabug: 27426023]

 - mlx4_core: restore optimal ICM memory allocation (Eric Dumazet)

- mlx4_core: allocate ICM memory in page size chunks (Qing Huang)

- kernel/signal.c: avoid undefined behaviour in kill_something_info When running kill(72057458746458112, 0) in userspace I hit the following issue. (mridula shastry) [Orabug: 28078687] (CVE-2018-10124)

 - rds: tcp: compute m_ack_seq as offset from ->write_seq (Sowmini Varadhan) [Orabug: 28085214]

 - ext4: fix bitmap position validation (Lukas Czerner) [Orabug: 28167032]

 - net/rds: Fix bug in failover_group parsing (H&aring kon Bugge) [Orabug: 28198749]

 - sctp: verify size of a new chunk in _sctp_make_chunk (Alexey Kodanev) [Orabug: 28240074] (CVE-2018-5803)

 - netfilter: xt_TCPMSS: add more sanity tests on tcph->doff (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 27896802] (CVE-2017-18017)

 - kernel/exit.c: avoid undefined behaviour when calling wait4 wait4(-2147483648, 0x20, 0, 0xdd0000) triggers:
 UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in kernel/exit.c:1651:9 (mridula shastry) [Orabug: 28049778] (CVE-2018-10087)

 - x86/bugs/module: Provide retpoline_modules_only parameter to fail non-retpoline modules (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk) [Orabug: 28071992]

Solution

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

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/oraclevm-errata/2018-July/000872.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 111021

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2018-0236.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 7/12/2018

Updated: 9/27/2019

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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: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:3.4

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/11/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/10/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-11600, CVE-2017-18017, CVE-2017-7616, CVE-2017-8824, CVE-2018-10087, CVE-2018-10124, CVE-2018-1130, CVE-2018-5803