OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2019-0035) (Spectre)
Medium Nessus Plugin ID 126670
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 :
- scsi: libfc: Fixup disc_mutex handling in fcoe module (Hannes Reinecke) [Orabug: 29511036]
- scsi: libfc: sanitize E_D_TOV and R_A_TOV setting in fcp (Hannes Reinecke) [Orabug: 29511036]
- sysctl: Fix kabi breakage (Shuning Zhang) [Orabug:
29689925]
- proc: Fix proc_sys_prune_dcache to hold a sb reference (Eric W. Biederman) [Orabug: 29689925]
- proc/sysctl: Don't grab i_lock under sysctl_lock. (Eric W. Biederman) [Orabug: 29689925]
- proc/sysctl: prune stale dentries during unregistering (Konstantin Khlebnikov) [Orabug: 29689925]
- scsi: smartpqi: correct lun reset issues (Kevin Barnett) [Orabug: 29848621]
- fork: record start_time late (David Herrmann) [Orabug:
29850581] (CVE-2019-6133)
- mm: avoid taking zone lock in pagetypeinfo_showmixed (Vinayak Menon) [Orabug: 29905302]
- x86/retpoline/ia32entry: Convert to non-speculative calls (Ankur Arora) [Orabug: 29909295] (CVE-2017-5715)
- tun: call dev_get_valid_name before register_netdevice (Cong Wang) [Orabug: 29925555] (CVE-2018-7191)
- mm/madvise.c: fix madvise infinite loop under special circumstances (chenjie) [Orabug: 29925610] (CVE-2017-18208)
Solution
Update the affected kernel-uek / kernel-uek-firmware packages.