OracleVM 3.2 : xen (OVMSA-2014-0009)

high Nessus Plugin ID 79533

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 :

- page-alloc: scrub pages used by hypervisor upon freeing ... unless they're part of a fully separate pool (and hence can't ever be used for guest allocations). This is XSA-100.

Solution

Update the affected xen / xen-devel / xen-tools packages.

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/oraclevm-errata/2014-June/000209.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 79533

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2014-0009.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 11/26/2014

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:xen-tools, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/OracleVM/release, Host/OracleVM/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 6/18/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/18/2014