OracleVM 3.1 : xen (OVMSA-2013-0071)

low Nessus Plugin ID 79518

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 :

- Rebuild correcting changelog

- x86: properly set up fbld emulation operand address This is XSA-66. (CVE-2013-4361)

- x86: properly handle hvm_copy_from_guest_[phys,virt] errors Ignoring them generally implies using uninitialized data and, in all cases dealt with here, potentially leaking hypervisor stack contents to guests.
This is XSA-63. (CVE-2013-4355)

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?de5b73a6

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 79518

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2013-0071.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 11/26/2014

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.8

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

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:3.1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/30/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/1/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4355, CVE-2013-4361

BID: 62708, 62710