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RHEL 7 : libvirt (RHSA-2018:1997) (Spectre)

2018-06-2700:00:00
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An update for libvirt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The libvirt library contains a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems.
In addition, libvirt provides tools for remote management of virtualized systems.

Security Fix(es) :

  • An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions (a commonly used performance optimization). It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the fact that memory read from address to which a recent memory write has occurred may see an older value and subsequently cause an update into the microprocessor’s data cache even for speculatively executed instructions that never actually commit (retire). As a result, an unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to read privileged memory by conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks. (CVE-2018-3639)

Note: This is the libvirt side of the CVE-2018-3639 mitigation that includes support for guests running on hosts with AMD processors.

Red Hat would like to thank Ken Johnson (Microsoft Security Response Center) and Jann Horn (Google Project Zero) for reporting this issue.

Bug Fix(es) :

  • Previously, the virtlogd service logged redundant AVC denial errors when a guest virtual machine was started. With this update, the virtlogd service no longer attempts to send shutdown inhibition calls to systemd, which prevents the described errors from occurring.
    (BZ#1573268)

  • Prior to this update, guest virtual machine actions that use a python library in some cases failed and ‘Hash operation not allowed during iteration’ error messages were logged. Several redundant thread access checks have been removed, and the problem no longer occurs.
    (BZ#1581364)

  • The ‘virsh capabilities’ command previously displayed an inaccurate number of 4 KiB memory pages on systems with very large amounts of memory. This update optimizes the memory diagnostic mechanism to ensure memory page numbers are displayed correctly on such systems.
    (BZ#1582418)

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#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2018:1997. The text 
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include("compat.inc");

if (description)
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  script_version("1.11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/04/15");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-3639");
  script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2018:1997");

  script_name(english:"RHEL 7 : libvirt (RHSA-2018:1997) (Spectre)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis",
    value:"The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description",
    value:
"An update for libvirt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security
impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base
score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each
vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The libvirt library contains a C API for managing and interacting with
the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems.
In addition, libvirt provides tools for remote management of
virtualized systems.

Security Fix(es) :

* An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern
microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load
& Store instructions (a commonly used performance optimization). It
relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in
the privileged code as well as the fact that memory read from address
to which a recent memory write has occurred may see an older value and
subsequently cause an update into the microprocessor's data cache even
for speculatively executed instructions that never actually commit
(retire). As a result, an unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to
read privileged memory by conducting targeted cache side-channel
attacks. (CVE-2018-3639)

Note: This is the libvirt side of the CVE-2018-3639 mitigation that
includes support for guests running on hosts with AMD processors.

Red Hat would like to thank Ken Johnson (Microsoft Security Response
Center) and Jann Horn (Google Project Zero) for reporting this issue.

Bug Fix(es) :

* Previously, the virtlogd service logged redundant AVC denial errors
when a guest virtual machine was started. With this update, the
virtlogd service no longer attempts to send shutdown inhibition calls
to systemd, which prevents the described errors from occurring.
(BZ#1573268)

* Prior to this update, guest virtual machine actions that use a
python library in some cases failed and 'Hash operation not allowed
during iteration' error messages were logged. Several redundant thread
access checks have been removed, and the problem no longer occurs.
(BZ#1581364)

* The 'virsh capabilities' command previously displayed an inaccurate
number of 4 KiB memory pages on systems with very large amounts of
memory. This update optimizes the memory diagnostic mechanism to
ensure memory page numbers are displayed correctly on such systems.
(BZ#1582418)"
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  script_set_attribute(
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    value:"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1997"
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  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
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  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-admin");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-client");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon-config-network");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-interface");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-network");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-secret");
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-disk");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-logical");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-mpath");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd");
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon-kvm");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon-lxc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-docs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-libs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-lock-sanlock");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-login-shell");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-nss");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.7");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/05/22");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/06/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/06/27");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"in_the_news", value:"true");
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  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Red Hat Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Red Hat" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Red Hat");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^7([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat 7.x", "Red Hat " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "s390" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Red Hat", cpu);

yum_updateinfo = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/yum-updateinfo");
if (!empty_or_null(yum_updateinfo)) 
{
  rhsa = "RHSA-2018:1997";
  yum_report = redhat_generate_yum_updateinfo_report(rhsa:rhsa);
  if (!empty_or_null(yum_report))
  {
    security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_NOTE,
      extra      : yum_report 
    );
    exit(0);
  }
  else
  {
    audit_message = "affected by Red Hat security advisory " + rhsa;
    audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, audit_message);
  }
}
else
{
  flag = 0;
  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libvirt-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libvirt-admin-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-admin-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", reference:"libvirt-client-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libvirt-daemon-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-daemon-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libvirt-daemon-config-network-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-daemon-config-network-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-interface-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-interface-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-network-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-network-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-secret-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-secret-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-disk-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-disk-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-logical-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-logical-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-mpath-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-mpath-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-scsi-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-scsi-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libvirt-daemon-kvm-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-daemon-kvm-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libvirt-daemon-lxc-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-daemon-lxc-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", reference:"libvirt-debuginfo-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", reference:"libvirt-devel-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libvirt-docs-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-docs-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", reference:"libvirt-libs-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libvirt-lock-sanlock-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-lock-sanlock-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"s390x", reference:"libvirt-login-shell-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libvirt-login-shell-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;

  if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", reference:"libvirt-nss-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6")) flag++;


  if (flag)
  {
    security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_NOTE,
      extra      : rpm_report_get() + redhat_report_package_caveat()
    );
    exit(0);
  }
  else
  {
    tested = pkg_tests_get();
    if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
    else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "libvirt / libvirt-admin / libvirt-client / libvirt-daemon / etc");
  }
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
redhatenterprise_linuxlibvirtp-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt
redhatenterprise_linuxlibvirt-adminp-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-admin
redhatenterprise_linuxlibvirt-clientp-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-client
redhatenterprise_linuxlibvirt-daemonp-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon
redhatenterprise_linuxlibvirt-daemon-config-networkp-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon-config-network
redhatenterprise_linuxlibvirt-daemon-config-nwfilterp-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter
redhatenterprise_linuxlibvirt-daemon-driver-interfacep-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-interface
redhatenterprise_linuxlibvirt-daemon-driver-lxcp-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc
redhatenterprise_linuxlibvirt-daemon-driver-networkp-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-network
redhatenterprise_linuxlibvirt-daemon-driver-nodedevp-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev
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