OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2020-0028)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 138416

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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 :

 - ipv4: ipv4_default_advmss should use route mtu (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 31563095]

 - net: ipv4: Refine the ipv4_default_advmss (Gao Feng) [Orabug: 31563095]

 - Revert 'bnxt_en: Remove busy poll logic in the driver.' (Brian Maly) [Orabug: 28151475]

 - md: batch flush requests. (NeilBrown) [Orabug: 31332821]

 - ALSA: core: Fix card races between register and disconnect (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 31351891] (CVE-2019-15214)

 - media: dvb-usb-v2: lmedm04: move ts2020 attach to dm04_lme2510_tuner (Malcolm Priestley) [Orabug:
 31352061] (CVE-2017-16538)

 - media: dvb-usb-v2: lmedm04: Improve logic checking of warm start (Malcolm Priestley) [Orabug: 31352061] (CVE-2017-16538)

 - atomic_open: fix the handling of create_error (Al Viro) [Orabug: 31493395]

 - media: ttusb-dec: Fix info-leak in ttusb_dec_send_command (Tomas Bortoli) [Orabug:
 31351119] (CVE-2019-19533)

 - NFS: Fix a performance regression in readdir (Trond Myklebust) [Orabug: 31409061]

 - x86/speculation: Add Ivy Bridge to affected list (Josh Poimboeuf) [Orabug: 31475612] (CVE-2020-0543)

 - x86/speculation: Add SRBDS vulnerability and mitigation documentation (Mark Gross) [Orabug: 31475612] (CVE-2020-0543)

 - x86/speculation: Add Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) mitigation (Mark Gross) [Orabug:
 31475612] (CVE-2020-0543)

 - x86/cpu: Add 'table' argument to cpu_matches (Mark Gross) [Orabug: 31475612] (CVE-2020-0543)

 - x86/cpu: Add a steppings field to struct x86_cpu_id (Mark Gross) [Orabug: 31475612] (CVE-2020-0543)

 - x86/cpu: Rename cpu_data.x86_mask to cpu_data.x86_stepping (Jia Zhang) [Orabug: 31475612] (CVE-2020-0543)

 - MCE: Restrict MCE banks to 6 on AMD platform (Zhenzhong Duan) [Orabug: 30000521]

 - can: peak_usb: fix slab info leak (Johan Hovold) [Orabug: 31351141] (CVE-2019-19534)

 - can: peak_usb: pcan_usb_pro: Fix info-leaks to USB devices (Tomas Bortoli) [Orabug: 31351250] (CVE-2019-19536)

 - xfs: fix freeze hung (Junxiao Bi) [Orabug: 31430876]

 - iscsi_target: fix mismatch spinlock unlock (Junxiao Bi) [Orabug: 31202372]

Solution

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

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/oraclevm-errata/2020-July/000989.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 138416

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2020-0028.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 7/14/2020

Updated: 7/16/2020

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:2.3:o:oracle:vm_server:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm:kernel-uek:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, p-cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm:kernel-uek-firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/OracleVM/release, Host/OracleVM/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/13/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/4/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16538, CVE-2019-15214, CVE-2019-19534, CVE-2019-19533, CVE-2019-19536, CVE-2020-0543