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OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2017-0116)
high Nessus Plugin ID 101195
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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 :- BUILDINFO: xen commit=74b662e79bc874fe8ad8a93d2891e6569c380004
- BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=8bff6989bd0bafcc0ddf859c23ce6a2ff21a80ff
- BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=346fdd7edd73f8287d0d0a2bab9c67b71bc6b8ba
- BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e
- BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee
- gnttab: __gnttab_unmap_common_complete is all-or-nothing (Jan Beulich) [Orabug: 26288614]
- gnttab: correct logic to get page references during map requests (George Dunlap) [Orabug: 26288614]
- gnttab: never create host mapping unless asked to (Jan Beulich)
- gnttab: Fix handling of dev_bus_addr during unmap (George Dunlap)
- x86/shadow: Hold references for the duration of emulated writes (Andrew Cooper) [Orabug: 26288568]
- x86/mm: disallow page stealing from HVM domains (Jan Beulich)
- guest_physmap_remove_page needs its return value checked (Jan Beulich) [Orabug: 26288602]
- xen/memory: Fix return value handing of guest_remove_page (Andrew Cooper) [Orabug: 26288602]
- evtchn: avoid NULL derefs (Jan Beulich) [Orabug:
26288583]
- gnttab: correct maptrack table accesses (Jan Beulich) [Orabug: 26288557]
- gnttab: Avoid potential double-put of maptrack entry (George Dunlap)
- gnttab: fix unmap pin accounting race (Jan Beulich) [Orabug: 26288557]
- IOMMU: handle IOMMU mapping and unmapping failures (Quan Xu) [Orabug: 26288557]
- xen/disk: don't leak stack data via response ring (Jan Beulich)
- BUILDINFO: xen commit=7b45c3eb48a884f56f072a97a9a8da4d0b1077ed
- BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=44c5f0a55d9a73e592426c33ce5705c969681955
- BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=346fdd7edd73f8287d0d0a2bab9c67b71bc6b8ba
- BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e
- BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee
- livepatch: Wrong usage of spinlock on debug console.
(Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk) [Orabug: 26248311]
- BUILDINFO: xen commit=40e21e7aea2b8bbc991346c3f516dfac4f94affe
- BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=44c5f0a55d9a73e592426c33ce5705c969681955
- BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=346fdd7edd73f8287d0d0a2bab9c67b71bc6b8ba
- BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e
- BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee
- x86/do_invalid_op should use is_active_kernel_text rather than having its (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk) [Orabug:
26129273]
- BUILDINFO: xen commit=0eadc919cf32139e5565e0d869ed09f35c0a3212
- BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=44c5f0a55d9a73e592426c33ce5705c969681955
- BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=346fdd7edd73f8287d0d0a2bab9c67b71bc6b8ba
- BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e
- BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee
- kexec: Add spinlock for the whole hypercall. (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk)
- kexec: clear kexec_image slot when unloading kexec image (Bhavesh Davda) [Orabug: 25861742]
- BUILDINFO: xen commit=8b90d66cd941599d50ee80e14fd144e337814bf6
- BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=44c5f0a55d9a73e592426c33ce5705c969681955
- BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=346fdd7edd73f8287d0d0a2bab9c67b71bc6b8ba
- BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e
- BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee
- x86: correct create_bounce_frame (tagged with CVE number) (Boris Ostrovsky) [Orabug: 25927739] (CVE-2017-8905)
- x86: discard type information when stealing pages (tagged with CVE number) (Boris Ostrovsky) [Orabug:
25927669] (CVE-2017-8904)
- multicall: deal with early exit conditions (tagged with CVE number) (Boris Ostrovsky) [Orabug: 25927592] (CVE-2017-8903)
- BUILDINFO: xen commit=583dedab5ceddbae4d0384de0ade8feeee75f78c
- BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=fcd17fdf18b95a9e408acc84f6d2b37cf3fc0335
- BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=346fdd7edd73f8287d0d0a2bab9c67b71bc6b8ba
- BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e
- BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee
- tools/libxc: Set max_elem to zero in xc_lockprof_query_number (Boris Ostrovsky) [Orabug:
26020611]
Solution
Update the affected xen / xen-tools packages.See Also
https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/oraclevm-errata/2017-June/000744.html
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 101195
File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2017-0116.nasl
Version: 3.7
Type: local
Family: OracleVM Local Security Checks
Published: 7/3/2017
Updated: 1/4/2021
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.5
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.2
Temporal Score: 5.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 8.8
Temporal Score: 7.7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/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:xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:xen-tools, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.4
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/OracleVM/release, Host/OracleVM/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 6/30/2017
Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/11/2017