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OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2017-0094)

high Nessus Plugin ID 99975

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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: xen commit=8ee9cbea8e71c968e602d5b4974601d283d61d28

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=fcd17fdf18b95a9e408acc84f6d2b37cf3fc0335

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=346fdd7edd73f8287d0d0a2bab9c67b71bc6b8ba

 - BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e

 - BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee

 - x86: correct create_bounce_frame (Boris Ostrovsky) [Orabug: 25927745]

 - x86: discard type information when stealing pages (Boris Ostrovsky)

- multicall: deal with early exit conditions (Boris Ostrovsky) [Orabug: 25927612]

 - BUILDINFO: xen commit=66e33522666436a4b6c13fbaa77b4942876bb5f7

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=fcd17fdf18b95a9e408acc84f6d2b37cf3fc0335

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=346fdd7edd73f8287d0d0a2bab9c67b71bc6b8ba

 - BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e

 - BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee

 - kexec: Add spinlock for the whole hypercall. (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk)

- kexec: clear kexec_image slot when unloading kexec image (Bhavesh Davda) [Orabug: 25861731]

 - BUILDINFO: xen commit=337c8edcc582f8bfb1bcfcb5a475c5fc18ff2def

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=fcd17fdf18b95a9e408acc84f6d2b37cf3fc0335

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=346fdd7edd73f8287d0d0a2bab9c67b71bc6b8ba

 - BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e

 - BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee

 - memory: properly check guest memory ranges in XENMEM_exchange handling (Jan Beulich) [Orabug:
 25760559] (CVE-2017-7228)

 - xenstored: Log when the write transaction rate limit bites (Ian Jackson) [Orabug: 25745225]

 - xenstored: apply a write transaction rate limit (Ian Jackson)

- BUILDINFO: xen commit=17b0cd2109c42553e9c8c34d3a2b8252abead104

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=fcd17fdf18b95a9e408acc84f6d2b37cf3fc0335

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=346fdd7edd73f8287d0d0a2bab9c67b71bc6b8ba

 - BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e

 - BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee

 - xm: Fix the error message displayed by 'xm create ...' (Venu Busireddy) [Orabug: 25721696]

 - xm: expand pci hidden devices tools (Venu Busireddy) [Orabug: 25721624]

 - BUILDINFO: xen commit=81f33e7316b476c319f42eb56ac58fc450804ded

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=2e4e0a805aeb448242b43399e0853b851bccde4e

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=d9ba4c53b14ebf9a0613b5638f90d95489622f0c

 - BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e

 - BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee

 - xend: fix vif device ID allocation (Zhigang Wang) [Orabug: 25692157]

- BUILDINFO: xen commit=68930e8bbd9311ebd12fdb251362a2e1f9987fba

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=f663d3dd4e968756d33e29cb2c2c956cabbdd4ca

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=d9ba4c53b14ebf9a0613b5638f90d95489622f0c

 - BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e

 - BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee

 - xend: fix waitForSuspend (Zhigang Wang) [Orabug:
 25638583] [Orabug: 25653480]

 - IOMMU: always call teardown callback (Oleksandr Tyshchenko) [Orabug: 25485193]

 - BUILDINFO: xen commit=9f3030e391274b89deb80c86a6343dac473916b3

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=f663d3dd4e968756d33e29cb2c2c956cabbdd4ca

 - BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=d9ba4c53b14ebf9a0613b5638f90d95489622f0c

 - BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e

 - BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee

 - one-off build

Solution

Update the affected xen / xen-tools packages.

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/oraclevm-errata/2017-May/000689.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 99975

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2017-0094.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Published: 5/4/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/3/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/4/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7228