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OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2016-0176)

high Nessus Plugin ID 95794

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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=c9d295a8e909c45a5e1d9fb5ef2c2ed0df1e871a

 - libxl: Remove redundant setting of phyical-device (George Dunlap)

- BUILDINFO:
 commit=8669823eab47b0fa3ae9a7f8fa5ef45874582559

 - x86emul: CMPXCHG8B ignores operand size prefix (Jan Beulich) [Orabug: 25180276]

Solution

Update the affected xen / xen-tools packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b2b5432b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 95794

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0176.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Published: 12/14/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/13/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/13/2016