OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0004)
High Nessus Plugin ID 96517
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.