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OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2019-0016) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 125104

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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: OVMF commit=173bf5c847e3ca8b42c11796ce048d8e2e916ff8

 - BUILDINFO: xen commit=3885a020649df84b883ea20d11ca15b7d7640201

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=8bff6989bd0bafcc0ddf859c23ce6a2ff21a80ff

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=346fdd7edd73f8287d0d0a2bab9c67b71bc6b8ba

 - BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e

 - BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee

 - x86/HVM: don't give the wrong impression of WRMSR succeeding (root)

- BUILDINFO: OVMF commit=173bf5c847e3ca8b42c11796ce048d8e2e916ff8

 - BUILDINFO: xen commit=71714f34026c4e0b105bf2def8d2dc4c7171d5b8

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=8bff6989bd0bafcc0ddf859c23ce6a2ff21a80ff

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=346fdd7edd73f8287d0d0a2bab9c67b71bc6b8ba

 - BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e

 - BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee

 - Red-tape: Update repo with new CVE for XSA-297 (Patrick Colp) [Orabug: 29725297] (CVE-2019-11091)

 - x86/spec-ctl: Expose X86_FEATURE_MD_CLEAR to guests (Patrick Colp) [Orabug: 29677162] (CVE-2018-12126) (CVE-2018-12127) (CVE-2018-12130)

 - x86/spec-ctrl: Introduce options to control VERW flushing (Andrew Cooper) [Orabug: 2977162] (CVE-2018-12126) (CVE-2018-12127) (CVE-2018-12130) (CVE-2018-12126) (CVE-2018-12127) (CVE-2018-12130)

 - x86/spec-ctrl: Infrastructure to use VERW to flush pipeline buffers (Andrew Cooper) [Orabug: 29677162] (CVE-2018-12126) (CVE-2018-12127) (CVE-2018-12130) (CVE-2018-12126) (CVE-2018-12127) (CVE-2018-12130)

 - x86/spec-ctrl: CPUID/MSR definitions for Microarchitectural Data Sampling (Andrew Cooper) [Orabug: 29677162] (CVE-2018-12126) (CVE-2018-12127) (CVE-2018-12130) (CVE-2018-12126) (CVE-2018-12127) (CVE-2018-12130)

 - BUILDINFO: OVMF commit=173bf5c847e3ca8b42c11796ce048d8e2e916ff8

 - BUILDINFO: xen commit=0d8ecd7732e56484c10e4b584de17d360d940252

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=8bff6989bd0bafcc0ddf859c23ce6a2ff21a80ff

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=346fdd7edd73f8287d0d0a2bab9c67b71bc6b8ba

 - BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e

 - BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee

 - Config: Update git links to use linux-git.us.oracle.com (Patrick Colp)

- gnttab: set page refcount for copy-on-grant-transfer (Jan Beulich)

Solution

Update the affected xen / xen-tools packages.

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/oraclevm-errata/2019-May/000939.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 125104

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2019-0016.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Published: 5/15/2019

Updated: 3/6/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11091

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/30/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2018-12130, CVE-2019-11091