OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2020-0038)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 140018

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=4e20c4a527d177048e77b2daa6201731fdcdc584

- BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=8bff6989bd0bafcc0ddf859c23ce6a2ff21a80ff

- BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=cf459aa4ae4ff6b7bfc208006b47c9992642c4cf

- BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e

- BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee

- redtape: QEMU-traditional: usb: fix setup_len init (CVE-2020-14364) (Patrick Colp) [Orabug: 31780712] (CVE-2020-14364)

- usb: fix setup_len init (CVE-2020-14364) (Gerd Hoffmann) [Orabug: 31780712] (CVE-2020-14364) (CVE-2020-14364)

- BUILDINFO: OVMF commit=173bf5c847e3ca8b42c11796ce048d8e2e916ff8

- BUILDINFO: xen commit=dffcb5098a9c58a2a59e792b1ded0ab46227d1ff

- BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=8bff6989bd0bafcc0ddf859c23ce6a2ff21a80ff

- BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=6e676a4ba6bbd437a2a8dbfc3c6e591d920b013b

- BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e

- BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee

- x86: skip further initialization for idle domains (Joe Jin) [Orabug: 31543204]

Solution

Update the affected xen / xen-tools packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3c49cf8f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 140018

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2020-0038.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 8/28/2020

Updated: 9/24/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14364

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

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: 8/27/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/31/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14364