EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.1 : kvm (EulerOS-SA-2018-1265)

high Nessus Plugin ID 117574

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

According to the versions of the kvm package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

- An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load i1/4+ Store instructions (a commonly used performance optimization). It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the fact that memory read from address to which a recent memory write has occurred may see an older value and subsequently cause an update into the microprocessor's data cache even for speculatively executed instructions that never actually commit (retire). As a result, an unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to read privileged memory by conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks.(CVE-2018-3639)

- On x86, MOV SS and POP SS behave strangely if they encounter a data breakpoint. If this occurs in a KVM guest, KVM incorrectly thinks that a #DB instruction was caused by the undocumented ICEBP instruction. This results in #DB being delivered to the guest kernel with an incorrect RIP on the stack. On most guest kernels, this will allow a guest user to DoS the guest kernel or even to escalate privilege to that of the guest kernel.
(CVE-2018-1087)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected kvm packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 117574

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2018-1265.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Family: Huawei Local Security Checks

Published: 9/18/2018

Updated: 8/6/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1087

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:kvm, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.5.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/27/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1087, CVE-2018-3639

Detections

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