OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0258)
high Nessus Plugin ID 117764
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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 :- nsfs: mark dentry with DCACHE_RCUACCESS (Cong Wang) [Orabug: 28576290] (CVE-2018-5873)
- dm crypt: add middle-endian variant of plain64 IV (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk) [Orabug: 28604628]
- IB/ipoib: Improve filtering log message (Yuval Shaia) [Orabug: 28655409]
- IB/ipoib: Fix wrong update of arp_blocked counter (Yuval Shaia)
- IB/ipoib: Update RX counters after ACL filtering (Yuval Shaia)
- IB/ipoib: Filter RX packets before adding pseudo header (Yuval Shaia)
- cdrom: Fix info leak/OOB read in cdrom_ioctl_drive_status (Scott Bauer) [Orabug:
28664501] (CVE-2018-16658)
- ACPICA: acpi: acpica: fix acpi operand cache leak in nseval.c (Seunghun Han) [Orabug: 28664577] (CVE-2017-13695)
- uek-rpm: Disable deprecated CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER (Victor Erminpour) [Orabug: 28680213]
Solution
Update the affected kernel-uek / kernel-uek-firmware packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 117764
File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2018-0258.nasl
Version: 1.2
Type: local
Family: OracleVM Local Security Checks
Published: 9/27/2018
Updated: 9/27/2019
Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.9
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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: 9/26/2018
Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/25/2017