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OracleVM 3.3 : xen (OVMSA-2015-0031)

high Nessus Plugin ID 81767

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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 :

 - x86emul: fully ignore segment override for register-only operations For ModRM encoded instructions with register operands we must not overwrite ea.mem.seg (if a - bogus in that case - segment override was present) as it aliases with ea.reg. This is CVE-2015-2151 / XSA-123.
 (CVE-2015-2151)

Solution

Update the affected xen / xen-tools packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?4bf03b6c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 81767

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2015-0031.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Published: 3/12/2015

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:xen-tools, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.3

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/11/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/12/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2151

BID: 73015