OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2019-0007) (Spectre)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 122087

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/bugs: Fix the AMD SSBD usage of the SPEC_CTRL MSR (Tom Lendacky) [Orabug: 28870524] (CVE-2018-3639)

- x86/bugs: Add AMD's SPEC_CTRL MSR usage (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk) [Orabug: 28870524] (CVE-2018-3639)

- x86/cpufeatures: rename X86_FEATURE_AMD_SSBD to X86_FEATURE_LS_CFG_SSBD (Mihai Carabas) [Orabug:
28870524] (CVE-2018-3639)

- Make file credentials available to the seqfile interfaces (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 29114879] (CVE-2018-17972)

- proc: restrict kernel stack dumps to root (Jann Horn) [Orabug: 29114879] (CVE-2018-17972)

- x86/speculation: Clean up retpoline code in bugs.c (Alejandro Jimenez) [Orabug: 29211617]

- x86, modpost: Replace last remnants of RETPOLINE with CONFIG_RETPOLINE (WANG Chao) [Orabug: 29211617]

- x86/build: Fix compiler support check for CONFIG_RETPOLINE (Masahiro Yamada) [Orabug: 29211617]

- x86/retpoline: Remove minimal retpoline support (Zhenzhong Duan) [Orabug: 29211617]

- x86/retpoline: Make CONFIG_RETPOLINE depend on compiler support (Zhenzhong Duan) [Orabug: 29211617]

- nl80211: check for the required netlink attributes presence (Vladis Dronov) [Orabug: 29245533] (CVE-2017-12153) (CVE-2017-12153)

- scsi: lpfc: Fix PT2PT PRLI reject (reapply patch) (James Smart) [Orabug: 29281346]

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?66ac1732

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 122087

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2019-0007.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 2/11/2019

Updated: 2/12/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-3639

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/8/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/21/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12153, CVE-2018-17972, CVE-2018-3639