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OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2016-0088) (Bunker Buster)

high Nessus Plugin ID 92600

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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 :

 - BUILDINFO:
 commit=aff08b43b1a504aa14a0fce65302ccf515b69fdf

 - Remove unsafe bits from the mod_l?_entry fastpath (Andrew Cooper) (CVE-2016-6258)

 - x86/mm: fully honor PS bits in guest page table walks (Jan Beulich) (CVE-2016-4480) (CVE-2016-4480)

 - libxl: Document ~/serial/ correctly (Ian Jackson) (CVE-2016-4962)

 - libxl: Cleanup: Have libxl__alloc_vdev use /libxl (Ian Jackson) (CVE-2016-4962)

 - libxl: Do not trust frontend for nic in getinfo (Ian Jackson) (CVE-2016-4962)

 - libxl: Do not trust frontend for nic in libxl_devid_to_device_nic (Ian Jackson) (CVE-2016-4962)

 - libxl: Do not trust frontend for vtpm in getinfo (Ian Jackson) (CVE-2016-4962)

 - libxl: Do not trust frontend for vtpm list (Ian Jackson) (CVE-2016-4962)

 - libxl: Do not trust frontend for disk in getinfo (Ian Jackson) (CVE-2016-4962)

 - libxl: Do not trust frontend for disk eject event (Ian Jackson) (CVE-2016-4962)

 - libxl: Do not trust frontend in libxl__device_nextid (Ian Jackson) (CVE-2016-4962)

 - libxl: Do not trust frontend in libxl__devices_destroy (Ian Jackson) (CVE-2016-4962)

 - libxl: Provide libxl__backendpath_parse_domid (Ian Jackson) (CVE-2016-4962)

 - libxl: Record backend/frontend paths in /libxl/$DOMID (Ian Jackson) (CVE-2016-4962)

 - x86: limit GFNs to 32 bits for shadowed superpages. (Tim Deegan) (CVE-2016-3960)

 - x86: fix information leak on AMD CPUs (Jan Beulich) (CVE-2016-3158) (CVE-2016-3159) (CVE-2016-3158) (CVE-2016-3159) (CVE-2016-3158) (CVE-2016-3159)

 - x86: enforce consistent cachability of MMIO mappings (Jan Beulich) (CVE-2016-2270) (CVE-2016-2270)

Solution

Update the affected xen / xen-tools packages.

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/oraclevm-errata/2016-July/000503.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 92600

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0088.nasl

Version: 2.16

Type: local

Published: 7/28/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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: 7/27/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/19/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2270, CVE-2016-3158, CVE-2016-3159, CVE-2016-3960, CVE-2016-4480, CVE-2016-4962, CVE-2016-6258

IAVB: 2016-B-0118-S