OracleVM 2.2 : xen (OVMSA-2011-0008)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79474

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 :

- Passthrough: disable bus-mastering on any card that causes an IOMMU fault (Tim Deegan) (CVE-2011-3131)

- Serialize iptables calls in hotplug scripts (rhbz 460410)

- Fix iptables service check bug (orabug 11727087)

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1a285e99

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79474

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2011-0008.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 11/26/2014

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:xen-64, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:xen-debugger, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:xen-pvhvm-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:xen-tools, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:2.2

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/24/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/13/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3131

BID: 49146