CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
56.0%
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :
CVE-2016-3158, CVE-2016-3159 (XSA-172) Jan Beulich from SUSE discovered that Xen does not properly handle writes to the hardware FSW.ES bit when running on AMD64 processors. A malicious domain can take advantage of this flaw to obtain address space usage and timing information, about another domain, at a fairly low rate.
CVE-2016-3960 (XSA-173) Ling Liu and Yihan Lian of the Cloud Security Team, Qihoo 360 discovered an integer overflow in the x86 shadow pagetable code. A HVM guest using shadow pagetables can cause the host to crash. A PV guest using shadow pagetables (i.e. being migrated) with PV superpages enabled (which is not the default) can crash the host, or corrupt hypervisor memory, potentially leading to privilege escalation.
#%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-3554. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(90638);
script_version("2.9");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-3158", "CVE-2016-3159", "CVE-2016-3960");
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"3554");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-3554-1 : xen - security update");
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-2016-3158, CVE-2016-3159 (XSA-172)
Jan Beulich from SUSE discovered that Xen does not
properly handle writes to the hardware FSW.ES bit when
running on AMD64 processors. A malicious domain can take
advantage of this flaw to obtain address space usage and
timing information, about another domain, at a fairly
low rate.
- CVE-2016-3960 (XSA-173)
Ling Liu and Yihan Lian of the Cloud Security Team,
Qihoo 360 discovered an integer overflow in the x86
shadow pagetable code. A HVM guest using shadow
pagetables can cause the host to crash. A PV guest using
shadow pagetables (i.e. being migrated) with PV
superpages enabled (which is not the default) can crash
the host, or corrupt hypervisor memory, potentially
leading to privilege escalation."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3158"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3159"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3960"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/xen"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3554"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the xen packages.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed
in version 4.4.1-9+deb8u5."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
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:8.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/04/21");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/04/22");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2021 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:"8.0", prefix:"libxen-4.4", reference:"4.4.1-9+deb8u5")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libxen-dev", reference:"4.4.1-9+deb8u5")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libxenstore3.0", reference:"4.4.1-9+deb8u5")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"xen-hypervisor-4.4-amd64", reference:"4.4.1-9+deb8u5")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"xen-hypervisor-4.4-arm64", reference:"4.4.1-9+deb8u5")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"xen-hypervisor-4.4-armhf", reference:"4.4.1-9+deb8u5")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"xen-system-amd64", reference:"4.4.1-9+deb8u5")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"xen-system-arm64", reference:"4.4.1-9+deb8u5")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"xen-system-armhf", reference:"4.4.1-9+deb8u5")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"xen-utils-4.4", reference:"4.4.1-9+deb8u5")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"xen-utils-common", reference:"4.4.1-9+deb8u5")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"xenstore-utils", reference:"4.4.1-9+deb8u5")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-3158
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-3159
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-3960
packages.debian.org/source/jessie/xen
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3158
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3159
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3960
www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3554
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
56.0%