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Virtuozzo 6 : cpupools / cpupools-features / etc (VZA-2019-040)

high Nessus Plugin ID 125308

Synopsis

The remote Virtuozzo host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the cpupools / cpupools-features / etc packages installed, the Virtuozzo installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - The Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data (MDS) is a series of hardware vulnerabilities which allow speculative execution attacks on Intel processors. A malicious application or guest virtual machine can use this flaw to gain access to data stored in internal CPU buffers, bypassing security restrictions. For more details, visit the Virtuozzo Blog at https://www.virtuozzo.com/blog-review/details/blog/view /virtuozzo-guidance-on-the-microarchitectural-store-buf fer-data-mds-vulnerability.html.

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

Solution

Update the affected cpupools / cpupools-features / etc package.

See Also

https://virtuozzosupport.force.com/s/article/VZA-2019-040

https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/mds

http://www.nessus.org/u?355d0e23

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 125308

File Name: Virtuozzo_VZA-2019-040.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 5/21/2019

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:cpupools, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:cpupools-features, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:parallels-kernel-modules, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:parallels-reconfiguration, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:parallels-server, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:parallels-server-bios, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:parallels-server-bm-release, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:parallels-server-cli, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:parallels-server-docs, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:parallels-server-efi, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:parallels-server-lib, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:parallels-server-transporter-agents, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:parallels-server-vi-cli, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:parallels-server-vmm, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:parallels-server-vncserver, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:parallels-server-vzvncserver, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:parallels-virtualization-sdk, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:parallels-virtualization-sdk-devel, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:parallels-virtualization-sdk-docs, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:parallels-web, p-cpe:/a:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:python-parallels-virtualization-sdk, cpe:/o:virtuozzo:virtuozzo:6

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/20/2019