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OracleVM 3.2 : xen (OVMSA-2016-0178)

high Nessus Plugin ID 95796

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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 :

 - From: Jan Beulich Subject: x86emul: CMPXCHG8B ignores operand size prefix Otherwise besides mis-handling the instruction, the comparison failure case would result in uninitialized stack data being handed back to the guest in rDX:rAX (32 bits leaked for 32-bit guests, 96 bits for 64-bit ones). This is XSA-200.

 Conflicts: xen/arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c

Solution

Update the affected xen / xen-devel / xen-tools packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c35bf899

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 95796

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0178.nasl

Version: 3.4

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-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:xen-tools, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.2

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