Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :
CVE-2013-1917 The SYSENTER instruction can be used by PV guests to accelerate system call processing. This instruction, however, leaves the EFLAGS register mostly unmodified.
This can be used by malicious or buggy user space to cause the entire host to crash.
CVE-2013-1919 Various IRQ related access control operations may not have the intended effect, potentially permitting a stub domain to grant its client domain access to an IRQ it doesn’t have access to itself. This can be used by malicious or buggy stub domains kernels to mount a denial of service attack possibly affecting the whole system.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-2662. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(66028);
script_version("1.12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2013-1917", "CVE-2013-1919");
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"2662");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-2662-1 : xen - several vulnerabilities");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
following problems :
- CVE-2013-1917
The SYSENTER instruction can be used by PV guests to
accelerate system call processing. This instruction,
however, leaves the EFLAGS register mostly unmodified.
This can be used by malicious or buggy user space to
cause the entire host to crash.
- CVE-2013-1919
Various IRQ related access control operations may not
have the intended effect, potentially permitting a stub
domain to grant its client domain access to an IRQ it
doesn't have access to itself. This can be used by
malicious or buggy stub domains kernels to mount a
denial of service attack possibly affecting the whole
system."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1917"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1919"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/xen"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2662"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the xen packages.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed
in version 4.0.1-5.9."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xen");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2013/04/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/04/19");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libxen-dev", reference:"4.0.1-5.9")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libxenstore3.0", reference:"4.0.1-5.9")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"xen-docs-4.0", reference:"4.0.1-5.9")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64", reference:"4.0.1-5.9")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"xen-hypervisor-4.0-i386", reference:"4.0.1-5.9")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"xen-utils-4.0", reference:"4.0.1-5.9")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"xenstore-utils", reference:"4.0.1-5.9")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | xen | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xen |
debian | debian_linux | 6.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0 |