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OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2019-0024)

high Nessus Plugin ID 125754

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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 :

 - hugetlbfs: don't retry when pool page allocations start to fail (Mike Kravetz) [Orabug: 29324267]

 - x86/speculation: RSB stuffing with retpoline on Skylake+ cpus (William Roche) [Orabug: 29660924]

 - x86/speculation: reformatting RSB overwrite macro (William Roche) [Orabug: 29660924]

 - x86/speculation: Dynamic enable and disable of RSB stuffing with IBRS&!SMEP (William Roche) [Orabug:
 29660924]

 - x86/speculation: STUFF_RSB dynamic enable (William Roche) [Orabug: 29660924]

 - int3 handler better address space detection on interrupts (William Roche) [Orabug: 29660924]

 - repairing out-of-tree build functionality (Mark Nicholson) [Orabug: 29755100]

 - ext4: fix false negatives*and* false positives in ext4_check_descriptors (Shuning Zhang) [Orabug:
 29797007]

 - ocfs2: fix ocfs2 read inode data panic in ocfs2_iget (Shuning Zhang) [Orabug: 29233739]

 - Bluetooth: Verify that l2cap_get_conf_opt provides large enough buffer (Marcel Holtmann) [Orabug: 29526426] (CVE-2019-3459)

 - Bluetooth: Check L2CAP option sizes returned from l2cap_get_conf_opt (Marcel Holtmann) [Orabug: 29526426] (CVE-2019-3459)

 - HID: debug: fix the ring buffer implementation (Vladis Dronov) [Orabug: 29629481] (CVE-2019-3819) (CVE-2019-3819)

 - scsi: target: iscsi: Use hex2bin instead of a re-implementation (Vincent Pelletier) [Orabug: 29778875] (CVE-2018-14633) (CVE-2018-14633)

 - scsi: libsas: fix a race condition when smp task timeout (Jason Yan) [Orabug: 29783225] (CVE-2018-20836)

 - scsi: megaraid_sas: return error when create DMA pool failed (Jason Yan) [Orabug: 29783254] (CVE-2019-11810)

 - Bluetooth: hidp: fix buffer overflow (Young Xiao) [Orabug: 29786786] (CVE-2011-1079) (CVE-2019-11884)

 - x86/speculation/mds: Add 'mitigations=' support for MDS (Kanth Ghatraju) [Orabug: 29791046]

 - net: rds: force to destroy connection if t_sock is NULL in rds_tcp_kill_sock. (Mao Wenan) [Orabug: 29802785] (CVE-2019-11815)

Solution

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

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/oraclevm-errata/2019-June/000943.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 125754

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2019-0024.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 6/7/2019

Updated: 1/10/2020

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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: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/rpm-list, Host/OracleVM/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/5/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/21/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1079, CVE-2018-14633, CVE-2018-20836, CVE-2019-11810, CVE-2019-11815, CVE-2019-11884, CVE-2019-3459, CVE-2019-3819

BID: 46616