OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2017-0157)

high Nessus Plugin ID 104136

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=7590623eeb64d8a8f733c24eb80818f86eb870f0

- BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=8bff6989bd0bafcc0ddf859c23ce6a2ff21a80ff

- BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=346fdd7edd73f8287d0d0a2bab9c67b71bc6b8ba

- BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e

- BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee

- gnttab: also validate PTE permissions upon destroy/replace (Jan Beulich) [Orabug: 26733715] (CVE-2017-14319)

- tools/xenstore: don't unlink connection object twice (Juergen Gross) [Orabug: 26739949] (CVE-2017-14317)

- xen/mm: make sure node is less than MAX_NUMNODES (George Dunlap) [Orabug: 26733665] (CVE-2017-14316)

Solution

Update the affected xen / xen-tools packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?91f209f5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 104136

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2017-0157.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Published: 10/25/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/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: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/12/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14316, CVE-2017-14317, CVE-2017-14319