OracleVM 2.1 : kernel (OVMSA-2009-0023)

high Nessus Plugin ID 79465

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 :

- backport for online resize of blockdev [orabug 8585251] [rh bugz 444964]

- CVE-2009-2692 - [net] make sock_sendpage use kernel_sendpage (Jiri Pirko) [517445 516955]

- CVE-2009-2698 - [net] prevent null pointer dereference in udp_sendmsg (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [518047 518043]

- Updated cciss module to 3.6.20

- update bnx2x 1.48.107

- update bnx2 1.8.8b

- update bfa to 1.1.0.9-0 [bugz 9518]

- Fix dom0 crash in loopback_start_xmit+0x107/0x2BD [bug 7634343]

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?dfbb8f44

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 79465

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2009-0023.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Published: 11/26/2014

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:2.1, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel-kdump-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel-boot, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel-kdump, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel-ovs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel-boot-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel-ovs-devel

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: 10/15/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/14/2009

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Linux Kernel Sendpage Local Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2692, CVE-2009-2698

BID: 36038, 36108

CWE: 119