OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2020-0018)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 136071

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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=8e468e57b8bc1a7f84b4a7a6abf9e420b97313fa

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=8bff6989bd0bafcc0ddf859c23ce6a2ff21a80ff

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=346fdd7edd73f8287d0d0a2bab9c67b71bc6b8ba

 - BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e

 - BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee

 - x86/tsx: Mask out ARCH_CAPS_TSX_CTRL (Patrick Colp) - x86/tsx: When the CPU has MSR_TSX_CTRL, ebx is accidentally being cleared (Patrick Colp) - redtape:
 IOMMU: default to always quarantining PCI devices (Boris Ostrovsky) [Orabug: 31158489] (CVE-2019-19579)

Solution

Update the affected xen / xen-tools packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7a547120

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 136071

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2020-0018.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 4/29/2020

Updated: 5/4/2020

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Temporal Vector: 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: 4/28/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/4/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-19579