FreeBSD - Machine Check Exception on Page Size Change (CVE-2018-12207). Intel platforms may be vulnerable to denial of service attacks triggered by malicious software, potentially crashing or hanging the system
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 199 |
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Xen Project | x86: Machine Check Error on Page Size Change DoS | 12 Nov 201917:53 | – | xen |
Tenable Nessus | Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2019-1366) | 25 Nov 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2019-1322) | 25 Nov 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Xen Denial of Service vulnerability (XSA-304) | 2 Mar 202000:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2019-0054) | 20 Nov 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | F5 Networks BIG-IP : Intel MCE vulnerability (K17269881) | 9 Jul 202000:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | RHEL 8 : kpatch-patch (RHSA-2019:4245) | 18 Dec 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | RHEL 7 : kpatch-patch (RHSA-2020:0028) | 7 Jan 202000:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | RHEL 7 : Virtualization Manager (RHSA-2019:3860) | 14 Nov 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Oracle Linux 8 : gcc (ELSA-2021-4386) | 17 Nov 202100:00 | – | nessus |
Source | Link |
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nessus | www.nessus.org/u |
cve | www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi |
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include('compat.inc');
if (description)
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script_version("1.3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/04/09");
script_cve_id("CVE-2018-12207");
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script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related
updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Intel discovered a previously published erratum on some Intel
platforms can be exploited by malicious software to potentially cause
a denial of service by triggering a machine check that will crash or
hang the system.
Malicious guest operating systems may be able to crash the host.");
# https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/edc0bf7e-05a1-11ea-9dfa-f8b156ac3ff9.html
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?18b9c477");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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:N/I:N/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2018-12207");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/11/14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/11/25");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/11/26");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:FreeBSD");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info", "Settings/ParanoidReport");
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);
if (report_paranoia < 2) audit(AUDIT_PARANOID);
flag = 0;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"FreeBSD>=12.1<12.1_1")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"FreeBSD>=12.0<12.0_12")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"FreeBSD>=11.3<11.3_5")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
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