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Oracle Linux 8 : virt:ol (ELSA-2020-0279)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 140038

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2020-0279 advisory.

 - cpu_map: Add TAA_NO bit for IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR (CVE-2019-11135)
 - cpu_map: Add TSX_CTRL bit for IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR (CVE-2019-11135)
 - api: disallow virDomainSaveImageGetXMLDesc on read-only connections (CVE-2019-10161)
 - api: disallow virDomainManagedSaveDefineXML on read-only connections (CVE-2019-10166)
 - api: disallow virConnectGetDomainCapabilities on read-only connections (CVE-2019-10167)
 - api: disallow virConnect*HypervisorCPU on read-only connections (CVE-2019-10168)
 - admin: reject clients unless their UID matches the current UID (CVE-2019-10132)
 - locking: restrict sockets to mode 0600 (CVE-2019-10132)
 - logging: restrict sockets to mode 0600 (CVE-2019-10132)
 - cpu_x86: Do not cache microcode version (CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2019-11091, CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12130)
 - qemu: Don't cache microcode version (CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2019-11091, CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12130)
 - cputest: Add data for Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1225 v5 (CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2019-11091, CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12130)
 - cpu_map: Define md-clear CPUID bit (CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2019-11091, CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12130)
 - Resolves: bz#1771970 (CVE-2019-11135 virt:rhel/qemu-kvm: hw: TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA) [rhel-8.1.0.z])
 - Revert fix for bz#1749724 - this got delayed to 8.2 (CVE-2019-15890 qemu-kvm: QEMU: Slirp: use-after-free during packet reassembly [rhel-8])
 - Resolves: bz#1693116 (CVE-2018-20815 qemu-kvm: QEMU: device_tree: heap buffer overflow while loading device tree blob [rhel-8.0])
 - Resolves: bz#1668162 (CVE-2019-6501 qemu-kvm: QEMU: scsi-generic: possible OOB access while handling inquiry request [rhel-8])
 - Resolves: bz#1669069 (CVE-2019-6778 qemu-kvm: QEMU: slirp: heap buffer overflow in tcp_emu() [rhel-8.0])
 - Resolves: bz#1636784 (CVE-2018-17963 qemu-kvm: Qemu: net: ignore packets with large size [rhel-8])
 - kvm-i386-define-the-ssbd-CPUID-feature-bit-CVE-2018-3639.patch [bz#1633928]
 - Resolves: bz#1633928 (CVE-2018-3639 qemu-kvm: hw: cpu: speculative store bypass [rhel-8.0])
 - Resolves: bz#1727642 (CVE-2019-6778 qemu-kvm: QEMU: slirp: heap buffer overflow in tcp_emu())
 - Resolves: bz#1734751 (CVE-2019-14378 qemu-kvm: QEMU: slirp: heap buffer overflow during packet reassembly [rhel-8.1.0])
 - Resolves: bz#1712705 (CVE-2019-12155 qemu-kvm: QEMU: qxl: null pointer dereference while releasing spice resources [rhel-8])
 - Resolves: bz#1703302 (CVE-2018-12130 virt:rhel/qemu-kvm: hardware: Microarchitectural Fill Buffer Data Sampling (MFBDS) [rhel-8])
 - Resolves: bz#1703308 (CVE-2018-12127 virt:rhel/qemu-kvm: hardware: Micro-architectural Load Port Data Sampling - Information Leak (MLPDS) [rhel-8])
 - Resolves: bz#1574216 (CVE-2018-3639 qemu-kvm-rhev: hw: cpu: speculative store bypass [rhel-7.6])
 - Resolves: bz#1586255 (CVE-2018-11806 qemu-kvm-rhev: QEMU: slirp: heap buffer overflow while reassembling fragmented datagrams [rhel-7.6])

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-0279.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 140038

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2020-0279.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/28/2020

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11135

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-inspect-icons, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocaml-hivex, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-disk, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-man-pages-uk, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-sys-virt, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-scsi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-libvirt, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sgabios, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-gfs2, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libiscsi-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sgabios-bin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-gluster, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-libguestfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:netcf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-lock-sanlock, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-rsync, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:virt-dib, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-nss, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-tools-c, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-sys-guestfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-ssh, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-plugin-python-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-config-network, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libiscsi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:virt-p2v-maker, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-dbus, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-admin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-gobject-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:hivex-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-rbd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-basic-plugins, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-plugin-xz, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-example-plugins, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-plugin-gzip, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:lua-guestfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocaml-hivex-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-secret, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:netcf-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-libguestfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-curl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-core, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-logical, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-hivex, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-kvm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-man-pages-ja, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-plugin-vddk, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-plugin-python3, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-java-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-docs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-benchmarking, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-interface, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:supermin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-client, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocaml-libguestfs-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-xfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocaml-libguestfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:virt-v2v, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-rescue, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:hivex, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-network, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:seabios-bin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-gobject, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-mpath, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-tests, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-winsupport, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:supermin-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:seavgabios-bin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:seabios, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-java, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:netcf-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-hivex, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-hivex, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libiscsi-utils

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/17/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11135