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OracleVM 2.2 : acpid (OVMSA-2009-0037)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79472

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Synopsis

The remote OracleVM host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates :

 - Resolves: #515062 CVE-2009-4033 acpid: log file created with random permissions

 - start acpid before hal

 - Resolves: #503177

 - Updated the License entry

 - Fixed CVE-2009-0798 (too many open files DoS)

 - Resolves: #496292

Solution

Update the affected acpid package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?be7007b9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79472

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2009-0037.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Published: 11/26/2014

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:acpid, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:2.2

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/25/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/24/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0798, CVE-2009-4033

BID: 34692

CWE: 264, 399

IAVA: 2009-A-0135