RHEL 5 : xen (Unpatched Vulnerability)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 199537

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat 5 host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities that will not be patched.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

- xsa224 xen: grant table operations mishandle reference counts (XSA-224) (CVE-2017-10921)

- The qemu implementation in libvirt before 1.3.0 and Xen allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host disk consumption) by writing to stdout or stderr. (CVE-2014-3672)

- Heap-based buffer overflow in the PCNET controller in QEMU allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending a packet with TXSTATUS_STARTPACKET set and then a crafted packet with TXSTATUS_DEVICEOWNS set. (CVE-2015-3209)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

Solution

The vendor has acknowledged the vulnerabilities but no solution has been provided. Refer to the vendor for remediation guidance.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 199537

File Name: redhat_unpatched_xen-rhel5.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/3/2024

Updated: 6/3/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-10921

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xen, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kvm

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/10/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3672, CVE-2015-3209, CVE-2015-5165, CVE-2015-5307, CVE-2015-6815, CVE-2015-6855, CVE-2015-7504, CVE-2015-7512, CVE-2015-7971, CVE-2015-8104, CVE-2015-8338, CVE-2015-8339, CVE-2015-8340, CVE-2015-8554, CVE-2015-8555, CVE-2015-8743, CVE-2016-10013, CVE-2016-10024, CVE-2016-1571, CVE-2016-1981, CVE-2016-2270, CVE-2016-2271, CVE-2016-2391, CVE-2016-2841, CVE-2016-3712, CVE-2016-3960, CVE-2016-3961, CVE-2016-4962, CVE-2016-4963, CVE-2016-5403, CVE-2016-6258, CVE-2016-6259, CVE-2016-7092, CVE-2016-7093, CVE-2016-7094, CVE-2016-7777, CVE-2016-8669, CVE-2016-8910, CVE-2016-9379, CVE-2016-9380, CVE-2016-9383, CVE-2016-9386, CVE-2016-9815, CVE-2016-9816, CVE-2016-9817, CVE-2016-9818, CVE-2016-9921, CVE-2016-9922, CVE-2016-9932, CVE-2017-10912, CVE-2017-10913, CVE-2017-10914, CVE-2017-10915, CVE-2017-10918, CVE-2017-10919, CVE-2017-10920, CVE-2017-10921, CVE-2017-10922, CVE-2017-12134, CVE-2017-12135, CVE-2017-12137, CVE-2017-12855, CVE-2017-13672, CVE-2017-13673, CVE-2017-14316, CVE-2017-14317, CVE-2017-14318, CVE-2017-14319, CVE-2017-14431, CVE-2017-15124, CVE-2017-15289, CVE-2017-15588, CVE-2017-15589, CVE-2017-15590, CVE-2017-15591, CVE-2017-15592, CVE-2017-15594, CVE-2017-15595, CVE-2017-15597, CVE-2017-17564, CVE-2017-17566, CVE-2017-2615, CVE-2017-2620, CVE-2017-5526, CVE-2017-5579, CVE-2017-6505, CVE-2017-7228, CVE-2017-7718, CVE-2017-7980, CVE-2017-7995, CVE-2017-8309, CVE-2017-8379, CVE-2017-8903, CVE-2017-8904, CVE-2017-8905, CVE-2017-9330, CVE-2018-12891, CVE-2018-18849, CVE-2018-19963, CVE-2018-19964, CVE-2018-19966, CVE-2018-5683, CVE-2018-7540, CVE-2018-7858, CVE-2019-17341, CVE-2019-17342, CVE-2019-17343, CVE-2019-17344, CVE-2019-17346, CVE-2019-17348