OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2019-0047)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 129986

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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 :

 - scsi: sg: fixup infoleak when using SG_GET_REQUEST_TABLE (Hannes Reinecke) [Orabug: 26941755] (CVE-2017-14991)

 - failover: allow name change on IFF_UP slave interfaces (Si-Wei Liu)

- Revert 'net_failover: delay taking over primary device to accommodate udevd renaming' (Si-Wei Liu) [Orabug:
 29707258]

 - build: Revert 'repairing out-of-tree build functionality' (Todd Vierling) [Orabug: 30257829]

 - rds: add ibmr to busy_list in flush code path (Manjunath Patil)

 - rds: fix uninteneded increase of rds_rdma:pool->max_items_soft (Manjunath Patil)

 - ext4: fix data exposure after a crash (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 30361860] (CVE-2017-7495)

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ca241a19

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 129986

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2019-0047.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 10/17/2019

Updated: 12/19/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

Temporal Vector: 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/release, Host/OracleVM/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/16/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/15/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14991, CVE-2017-7495