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HistoryApr 22, 2016 - 12:00 a.m.

Debian DSA-3554-1 : xen - security update

2016-04-2200:00:00
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debian
dsa-3554-1
xen
security update
vulnerabilities
xen hypervisor
cve-2016-3158
cve-2016-3159
xsa-172
amd64 processors
address space
timing information
cve-2016-3960
xsa-173
integer overflow
x86 shadow pagetable
hvm guest
pv guest
privilege escalation

CVSS2

7.2

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

8.8

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

0.002

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");

CVSS2

7.2

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

8.8

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

0.002

Percentile

56.0%