OracleVM 3.3 : kernel-uek (OVMSA-2015-0122)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 85968

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 :

- sctp: fix ASCONF list handling (Marcelo Ricardo Leitner) [Orabug: 21842668] (CVE-2015-3212)

- KEYS: ensure we free the assoc array edit if edit is valid (Colin Ian King) [Orabug: 21842655] (CVE-2015-1333)

- Introduce [compat_]save_altstack_ex to unbreak x86 SMAP (Al Viro) [Orabug: 21549587] - x86, smap: Handle csum_partial_copy_*_user (H. Peter Anvin) [Orabug:
21549587] - ext4: fix warning in ext4_da_update_reserve_space (Jan Kara) [Orabug:
21621442] - ext4: remove unused variable in ext4_free_blocks (Lukas Czerner) [Orabug: 21621442] - quota: provide interface for readding allocated space into reserved space (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 21621442]

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?8c0eb14b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 85968

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2015-0122.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 9/17/2015

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A: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: 9/16/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/31/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1333, CVE-2015-3212