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HistoryNov 11, 2015 - 12:00 a.m.

FreeBSD : xen-kernel -- Uncontrolled creation of large page mappings by PV guests (3d9f6260-881d-11e5-ab94-002590263bf5)

2015-11-1100:00:00
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The Xen Project reports :

The code to validate level 2 page table entries is bypassed when certain conditions are satisfied. This means that a PV guest can create writable mappings using super page mappings. Such writable mappings can violate Xen intended invariants for pages which Xen is supposed to keep read-only. This is possible even if the ‘allowsuperpage’ command line option is not used.

Malicious PV guest administrators can escalate privilege so as to control the whole system.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :
#
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include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(86836);
  script_version("2.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2015-7835");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : xen-kernel -- Uncontrolled creation of large page mappings by PV guests (3d9f6260-881d-11e5-ab94-002590263bf5)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package in pkg_info output");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"The Xen Project reports :

The code to validate level 2 page table entries is bypassed when
certain conditions are satisfied. This means that a PV guest can
create writable mappings using super page mappings. Such writable
mappings can violate Xen intended invariants for pages which Xen is
supposed to keep read-only. This is possible even if the
'allowsuperpage' command line option is not used.

Malicious PV guest administrators can escalate privilege so as to
control the whole system."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-148.html"
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/3d9f6260-881d-11e5-ab94-002590263bf5.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?78b746cc"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:xen-kernel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2015/10/29");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/11/11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/11/11");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"xen-kernel>=3.4<4.5.1_1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
freebsdfreebsdxen-kernelp-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:xen-kernel
freebsdfreebsdcpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd