The OracleVM 3.3 system is missing critical security patches for kernel-uek (OVMSA-2015-0056) related to unchecked printing, race conditions, memory management, and selinux transition
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 199 |
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Tenable Nessus | Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2015-3032) | 24 Apr 201500:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2015-3035) | 14 May 201500:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | OracleVM 3.3 : kernel-uek (OVMSA-2015-0060) | 15 May 201500:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2015-3034) | 24 Apr 201500:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2015-3033) | 24 Apr 201500:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2511-1) | 27 Feb 201500:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-2512-1) | 27 Feb 201500:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2015:0864) | 22 Apr 201500:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2015:0864) | 23 Apr 201500:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20150421) | 22 Apr 201500:00 | – | nessus |
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The package checks in this plugin were extracted from OracleVM
# Security Advisory OVMSA-2015-0056.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(83108);
script_version("2.9");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2014-3215", "CVE-2014-8171", "CVE-2014-9529", "CVE-2014-9584");
script_bugtraq_id(67341, 71880, 71883, 74293);
script_name(english:"OracleVM 3.3 : kernel-uek (OVMSA-2015-0056)");
script_summary(english:"Checks the RPM output for the updated packages.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address
critical security updates :
- isofs: Fix unchecked printing of ER records (Jan Kara)
[Orabug: 20930551] (CVE-2014-9584)
- KEYS: close race between key lookup and freeing (Sasha
Levin) [Orabug: 20930548] (CVE-2014-9529)
(CVE-2014-9529)
- mm: memcg: do not allow task about to OOM kill to bypass
the limit (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539]
(CVE-2014-8171)
- mm: memcg: do not declare OOM from __GFP_NOFAIL
allocations (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539]
(CVE-2014-8171)
- fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop into the
allocator (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539]
(CVE-2014-8171)
- mm: memcg: handle non-error OOM situations more
gracefully (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539]
(CVE-2014-8171)
- mm: memcg: do not trap chargers with full callstack on
OOM (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] (CVE-2014-8171)
- mm: memcg: rework and document OOM waiting and wakeup
(Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] (CVE-2014-8171)
- mm: memcg: enable memcg OOM killer only for user faults
(Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] (CVE-2014-8171)
- x86: finish user fault error path with fatal signal
(Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539] (CVE-2014-8171)
- arch: mm: pass userspace fault flag to generic fault
handler (Johannes Weiner) [Orabug: 20930539]
(CVE-2014-8171)
- selinux: Permit bounded transitions under NO_NEW_PRIVS
or NOSUID. (Stephen Smalley) [Orabug: 20930501]
(CVE-2014-3215)"
);
# https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/oraclevm-errata/2015-April/000307.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?a1c84d76"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected kernel-uek / kernel-uek-firmware packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel-uek");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:kernel-uek-firmware");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2014/05/08");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/04/27");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/04/28");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"OracleVM Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/OracleVM/release", "Host/OracleVM/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/OracleVM/release");
if (isnull(release) || "OVS" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "OracleVM");
if (! preg(pattern:"^OVS" + "3\.3" + "(\.[0-9]|$)", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "OracleVM 3.3", "OracleVM " + release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/OracleVM/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "OracleVM", cpu);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "x86_64", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"OVS3.3", reference:"kernel-uek-3.8.13-68.1.3.el6uek")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"OVS3.3", reference:"kernel-uek-firmware-3.8.13-68.1.3.el6uek")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "kernel-uek / kernel-uek-firmware");
}
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