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OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2018-0021) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

high Nessus Plugin ID 107130

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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: xen commit=b2a6db11ced11291a472bc1bda20ce329eda4d66

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=8bff6989bd0bafcc0ddf859c23ce6a2ff21a80ff

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=346fdd7edd73f8287d0d0a2bab9c67b71bc6b8ba

 - BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e

 - BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee

 - gnttab: don't blindly free status pages upon version change (Andrew Cooper)&nbsp [Orabug: 27571750]&nbsp (CVE-2018-7541)

 - memory: don't implicitly unpin for decrease-reservation (Andrew Cooper)&nbsp [Orabug: 27571737]&nbsp (CVE-2018-7540)

 - BUILDINFO: xen commit=873b8236e886daa3c26dae28d0c1c53d88447dc0

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=8bff6989bd0bafcc0ddf859c23ce6a2ff21a80ff

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=346fdd7edd73f8287d0d0a2bab9c67b71bc6b8ba

 - BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e

 - BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee

 - xend: if secure boot is enabled don't write pci config space (Elena Ufimtseva)&nbsp [Orabug: 27533309]

 - BUILDINFO: xen commit=81602116e75b6bbc519366b242c71888aa1b1673

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=8bff6989bd0bafcc0ddf859c23ce6a2ff21a80ff

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=346fdd7edd73f8287d0d0a2bab9c67b71bc6b8ba

 - BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e

 - BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee

 - x86/spec_ctrl: Fix several bugs in SPEC_CTRL_ENTRY_FROM_INTR_IST (Andrew Cooper)&nbsp [Orabug: 27553376]&nbsp (CVE-2017-5753) (CVE-2017-5715) (CVE-2017-5754)

 - x86: allow easier disabling of BTI mitigations (Zhenzhong Duan) [Orabug: 27553376]&nbsp (CVE-2017-5753) (CVE-2017-5715) (CVE-2017-5754)

 - x86/boot: Make alternative patching NMI-safe (Andrew Cooper) [Orabug: 27553376]&nbsp (CVE-2017-5753) (CVE-2017-5715) (CVE-2017-5754)

 - xen/cmdline: Fix parse_boolean for unadorned values (Andrew Cooper)&nbsp [Orabug: 27553376]&nbsp (CVE-2017-5753) (CVE-2017-5715) (CVE-2017-5754)

 - Optimize the context switch code a bit (Zhenzhong Duan)&nbsp [Orabug: 27553376]&nbsp (CVE-2017-5753) (CVE-2017-5715) (CVE-2017-5754)

 - Update init_speculation_mitigations to upstream's (Zhenzhong Duan)&nbsp [Orabug: 27553376]&nbsp (CVE-2017-5753) (CVE-2017-5715) (CVE-2017-5754)

 - x86/entry: Avoid using alternatives in NMI/#MC paths (Andrew Cooper)&nbsp [Orabug: 27553376]&nbsp (CVE-2017-5753) (CVE-2017-5715) (CVE-2017-5754)

 - Update RSB related implementation to upstream ones (Zhenzhong Duan)&nbsp [Orabug: 27553376]&nbsp (CVE-2017-5753) (CVE-2017-5715) (CVE-2017-5754)

 - BUILDINFO: xen commit=c6a2fe8d72a3eba01b22cbe495e60cb6837fe8d0

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=8bff6989bd0bafcc0ddf859c23ce6a2ff21a80ff

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=346fdd7edd73f8287d0d0a2bab9c67b71bc6b8ba

 - BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e

 - BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee

 - x86: Expose CPUID.7, EDX.26->27 and CPUID.0x80000008, EBX.12 (redux) (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk)&nbsp [Orabug:
 27445678]

 - BUILDINFO: xen commit=9657d91fcbf49798d2c5135866e1947113d536dc

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=8bff6989bd0bafcc0ddf859c23ce6a2ff21a80ff

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=346fdd7edd73f8287d0d0a2bab9c67b71bc6b8ba

 - BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e

 - BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee

 - x86/Spectre: Set thunk to THUNK_NONE if compiler support is not available (Boris Ostrovsky)&nbsp [Orabug:
 27375688]

 - BUILDINFO: xen commit=4e5826dfcb56d3a868a9934646989f8483f03b3c

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=8bff6989bd0bafcc0ddf859c23ce6a2ff21a80ff

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=346fdd7edd73f8287d0d0a2bab9c67b71bc6b8ba

 - BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e

 - BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee

 - xen: No dependencies on dracut and microcode_ctl RPMs (Boris Ostrovsky)&nbsp [Orabug: 27409718]

Solution

Update the affected xen / xen-tools packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?de7c508d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 107130

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2018-0021.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Published: 3/5/2018

Updated: 9/27/2019

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.4

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:H/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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/2/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/4/2018

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5754, CVE-2018-7540, CVE-2018-7541

IAVA: 2018-A-0019, 2018-A-0020