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OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2020-0019)

high Nessus Plugin ID 137128

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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 :

 - KVM: x86: Remove spurious semicolon (Joao Martins) [Orabug: 31413782]

 - genirq: Use rcu in kstat_irqs_usr (Eric Dumazet)

 - genirq: Make sparse_irq_lock protect what it should protect (Thomas Gleixner) [Orabug: 30953676]

 - genirq: Free irq_desc with rcu (Thomas Gleixner) [Orabug: 30953676]

 - qla2xxx: Update driver version to 9.00.00.00.42.0-k1-v2 (Arun Easi) [Orabug: 30372266]

 - qla2xxx: Fix device discovery when FCP2 device is lost.
 (Arun Easi) [Orabug: 30372266]

 - brcmfmac: add subtype check for event handling in data path (John Donnelly) [Orabug: 30776354] (CVE-2019-9503)

 - percpu-refcount: fix reference leak during percpu-atomic transition (Douglas Miller) [Orabug: 30867060]

 - blk-mq: Allow timeouts to run while queue is freezing (Gabriel Krisman Bertazi) [Orabug: 30867060]

 - fs/dcache.c: fix spin lockup issue on nlru->lock (Junxiao Bi) [Orabug: 30953290]

 - jbd2: disable CONFIG_JBD2_DEBUG (Junxiao Bi) [Orabug:
 31234664]

 - mwifiex: pcie: Fix memory leak in mwifiex_pcie_alloc_cmdrsp_buf (Navid Emamdoost) [Orabug:
 31246302] (CVE-2019-19056)

 - drm/vmwgfx: limit the number of mip levels in vmw_gb_surface_define_ioctl (Vladis Dronov) [Orabug:
 31262557] (CVE-2017-7346)

 - i40e: Increment the driver version for FW API update (Jack Vogel) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144)

 - i40e: Update FW API version to 1.9 (Piotr Azarewicz) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144)

 - i40e: Changed maximum supported FW API version to 1.8 (Adam Ludkiewicz) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144)

 - i40e: Stop dropping 802.1ad tags - eth proto 0x88a8 (Scott Peterson) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144)

 - i40e: fix reading LLDP configuration (Mariusz Stachura) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144)

 - i40e: Add capability flag for stopping FW LLDP (Krzysztof Galazka) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144)

 - i40e: refactor FW version checking (Mitch Williams) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144)

 - i40e: shutdown all IRQs and disable MSI-X when suspended (Jacob Keller) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144)

 - i40e: prevent service task from running while we're suspended (Jacob Keller) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144)

 - i40e: don't clear suspended state until we finish resuming (Jacob Keller) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144)

 - i40e: use newer generic PM support instead of legacy PM callbacks (Jacob Keller) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144)

 - i40e: use separate state bit for miscellaneous IRQ setup (Jacob Keller) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144)

 - i40e: fix for flow director counters not wrapping as expected (Mariusz Stachura) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144)

 - i40e: relax warning message in case of version mismatch (Mariusz Stachura) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144)

 - i40e: simplify member variable accesses (Sudheer Mogilappagari) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144)

 - i40e: Fix link down message when interface is brought up (Sudheer Mogilappagari) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144)

 - i40e: Fix unqualified module message while bringing link up (Sudheer Mogilappagari) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144)

 - HID: Fix assumption that devices have inputs (Alan Stern) [Orabug: 31208622] (CVE-2019-19532)

 - qla2xxx: DBG: disable 3D mailbox. (Quinn Tran) [Orabug:
 30890687]

 - scsi: qla2xxx: Fix mtcp dump collection failure (Quinn Tran) [Orabug: 30890687]

 - scsi: qla2xxx: Add Serdes support for ISP27XX (Joe Carnuccio) [Orabug: 30890687]

 - vgacon: Fix a UAF in vgacon_invert_region (Zhang Xiaoxu) [Orabug: 31143947] (CVE-2020-8649) (CVE-2020-8647) (CVE-2020-8647) (CVE-2020-8649) (CVE-2020-8649) (CVE-2020-8647)

 - HID: hiddev: do cleanup in failure of opening a device (Hillf Danton) [Orabug: 31206360] (CVE-2019-19527)

 - HID: hiddev: avoid opening a disconnected device (Hillf Danton) [Orabug: 31206360] (CVE-2019-19527)

 - USB: adutux: fix use-after-free on disconnect (Johan Hovold) [Orabug: 31233769] (CVE-2019-19523)

 - ipv4: implement support for NOPREFIXROUTE ifa flag for ipv4 address (Paolo Abeni) [Orabug: 30292825]

 - vt: selection, push sel_lock up (Jiri Slaby) [Orabug:
 30923298] (CVE-2020-8648)

 - vt: selection, push console lock down (Jiri Slaby) [Orabug: 30923298] (CVE-2020-8648)

 - vt: selection, close sel_buffer race (Jiri Slaby) [Orabug: 30923298] (CVE-2020-8648) (CVE-2020-8648)

 - xfs: stop searching for free slots in an inode chunk when there are none (Carlos Maiolino) [Orabug: 31030659]

 - xfs: fix up xfs_swap_extent_forks inline extent handling (Eric Sandeen) [Orabug: 31032831]

 - xfs: validate sb_logsunit is a multiple of the fs blocksize (Darrick J. Wong) [Orabug: 31034071]

 - mwifiex: Fix three heap overflow at parsing element in cfg80211_ap_settings (Wen Huang) [Orabug: 31104481] (CVE-2019-14814) (CVE-2019-14815) (CVE-2019-14816) (CVE-2019-14814) (CVE-2019-14815) (CVE-2019-14816)

 - rds: fix an infoleak in rds_inc_info_copy (Kangjie Lu) [Orabug: 30770962] (CVE-2016-5244)

 - xfs: do async inactivation only when fs freezed (Junxiao Bi) [Orabug: 30944736]

 - xfs: fix deadlock between shrinker and fs freeze (Junxiao Bi) [Orabug: 30944736]

 - xfs: increase the default parallelism levels of pwork clients (Junxiao Bi) [Orabug: 30944736]

 - xfs: decide if inode needs inactivation (Junxiao Bi) [Orabug: 30944736]

 - xfs: refactor the predicate part of xfs_free_eofblocks (Junxiao Bi) [Orabug: 30944736]

 - floppy: check FDC index for errors before assigning it (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 31067516] (CVE-2020-9383)

 - KVM: x86: clear stale x86_emulate_ctxt->intercept value (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [Orabug: 31118691]

 - slcan: Don't transmit uninitialized stack data in padding (Richard Palethorpe) [Orabug: 31136753] (CVE-2020-11494)

 - rds: transport module should be auto loaded when transport is set (Rao Shoaib) [Orabug: 31031928]

 - KVM: X86: Fix NULL deref in vcpu_scan_ioapic (Wanpeng Li) [Orabug: 31078882]

 - vhost: Check docket sk_family instead of call getname (Eugenio P&eacute rez) [Orabug: 31085993] (CVE-2020-10942)

 - Revert 'oled: give panic handler chance to run before kexec' (Wengang Wang) [Orabug: 31098797]

 - kernel: cpu.c: fix return in void function cpu_smt_disable (Mihai Carabas) [Orabug: 31047871]

 - net: qlogic: Fix memory leak in ql_alloc_large_buffers (Navid Emamdoost) [Orabug: 31055327] (CVE-2019-18806)

 - swiotlb: clean up reporting (Kees Cook) [Orabug:
 31085017] (CVE-2018-5953)

 - KVM: x86: Expose more Intel AVX512 feature to guest (Luwei Kang) [Orabug: 31085086]

 - x86/cpufeature: Enable new AVX-512 features (Fenghua Yu) [Orabug: 31085086]

 - xenbus: req->err should be updated before req->state (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 30705030]

 - xenbus: req->body should be updated before req->state (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 30705030]

Solution

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

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/oraclevm-errata/2020-June/000980.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 137128

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2020-0019.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 6/4/2020

Updated: 3/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.9

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9503

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-0140

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: 6/3/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/27/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5244, CVE-2017-7346, CVE-2018-5953, CVE-2019-0139, CVE-2019-0140, CVE-2019-0144, CVE-2019-14814, CVE-2019-14815, CVE-2019-14816, CVE-2019-18806, CVE-2019-19056, CVE-2019-19523, CVE-2019-19527, CVE-2019-19532, CVE-2019-9503, CVE-2020-10942, CVE-2020-11494, CVE-2020-8647, CVE-2020-8648, CVE-2020-8649, CVE-2020-9383