OracleVM 3.3 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2016-0175)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 95760

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 :

- Revert 'i40e: Set defport behavior for the Main VSI when in promiscuous mode' (Jack Vogel) [Orabug: 22683573]

- mlx4: avoid multiple free on id_map_ent (Wengang Wang)

- xen-netfront: cast grant table reference first to type int (Dongli Zhang)

- xen-netfront: do not cast grant table reference to signed short (Dongli Zhang)

- RDS: Drop the connection as part of cancel to avoid hangs (Avinash Repaka) [Orabug: 25045360]

- sctp: validate chunk len before actually using it (Marcelo Ricardo Leitner) [Orabug: 25142879] (CVE-2016-9555)

- mpi: Fix NULL ptr dereference in mpi_powm [ver #3] (Andrey Ryabinin) [Orabug: 25154098] (CVE-2016-8650) (CVE-2016-8650)

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?511fc0e1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 95760

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0175.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Published: 12/13/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/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:3.3

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/12/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/28/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-8650, CVE-2016-9555