OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2020-0038)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 140018

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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=4e20c4a527d177048e77b2daa6201731fdcdc584

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=8bff6989bd0bafcc0ddf859c23ce6a2ff21a80ff

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=cf459aa4ae4ff6b7bfc208006b47c9992642c4cf

 - BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e

 - BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee

 - redtape: QEMU-traditional: usb: fix setup_len init (CVE-2020-14364) (Patrick Colp) [Orabug: 31780712] (CVE-2020-14364)

 - usb: fix setup_len init (CVE-2020-14364) (Gerd Hoffmann) [Orabug: 31780712] (CVE-2020-14364) (CVE-2020-14364)

 - BUILDINFO: OVMF commit=173bf5c847e3ca8b42c11796ce048d8e2e916ff8

 - BUILDINFO: xen commit=dffcb5098a9c58a2a59e792b1ded0ab46227d1ff

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=8bff6989bd0bafcc0ddf859c23ce6a2ff21a80ff

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=6e676a4ba6bbd437a2a8dbfc3c6e591d920b013b

 - BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e

 - BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee

 - x86: skip further initialization for idle domains (Joe Jin) [Orabug: 31543204]

Solution

Update the affected xen / xen-tools packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3c49cf8f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 140018

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2020-0038.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 8/28/2020

Updated: 9/24/2020

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14364

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

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: 8/27/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/31/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14364