OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0004)

high Nessus Plugin ID 96517

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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 :

 - KEYS: Fix short sprintf buffer in /proc/keys show function (David Howells) [Orabug: 25306361] (CVE-2016-7042)

 - nvme: Limit command retries (Keith Busch) [Orabug:
 25374751]

 - fs/proc/task_mmu.c: fix mm_access mode parameter in pagemap_read (Kenny Keslar) [Orabug: 25374977]

 - tcp: fix use after free in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 25374364] (CVE-2016-6828)

 - tunnels: Don't apply GRO to multiple layers of encapsulation. (Jesse Gross) [Orabug: 25036352] (CVE-2016-8666)

 - i40e: Don't notify client(s) for DCB changes on all VSIs (Neerav Parikh) [Orabug: 25046290]

 - packet: fix race condition in packet_set_ring (Philip Pettersson) [Orabug: 25231617] (CVE-2016-8655)

 - netlink: Fix dump skb leak/double free (Herbert Xu) [Orabug: 25231692] (CVE-2016-9806)

 - ALSA: pcm : Call kill_fasync in stream lock (Takashi Iwai) [Orabug: 25231720] (CVE-2016-9794)

 - net: avoid signed overflows for SO_[SND|RCV]BUFFORCE (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug: 25231751] (CVE-2016-9793)

 - rebuild bumping release

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ba5d5274

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 96517

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2017-0004.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Published: 1/16/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

Temporal Vector: E:H/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

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

Temporal Vector: E:H/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:3.4

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: 1/13/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/16/2016

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (AF_PACKET chocobo_root Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6828, CVE-2016-7042, CVE-2016-8655, CVE-2016-8666, CVE-2016-9793, CVE-2016-9794, CVE-2016-9806