OracleVM 3.2 : xen (OVMSA-2015-0032)

high Nessus Plugin ID 81768

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 :

- x86emul: fully ignore segment override for register-only operations For ModRM encoded instructions with register operands we must not overwrite ea.mem.seg (if a - bogus in that case - segment override was present) as it aliases with ea.reg. This is CVE-2015-2151 / XSA-123.
(CVE-2015-2151)

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?70541970

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 81768

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2015-0032.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Published: 3/12/2015

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/11/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/12/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2151

BID: 73015