OracleVM 2.2 : xen (OVMSA-2012-0058)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79492

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 :

XSA-27: hvm: Limit the size of large HVM op batches [orabug 15907978] (CVE-2012-5511) XSA-29: add missing guest address range checks to XENMEM_exchange handlers [orabug 15907996] (CVE-2012-5513) XSA-30:
xen: fix error handling of guest_physmap_mark_populate_on_demand [orabug 15908008] (CVE-2012-5514) XSA-31: memop: limit guest specified extent order [orabug 15908028] (CVE-2012-5515)

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0afad7a0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79492

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2012-0058.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 11/26/2014

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:xen-64, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:xen-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:xen-pvhvm-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:xen, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:2.2, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:xen-debugger

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/5/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/13/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5511, CVE-2012-5513, CVE-2012-5514, CVE-2012-5515

BID: 56796, 56797, 56798, 56803