OracleVM 3.2 : xen (OVMSA-2013-0090)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - x86/AMD: work around erratum 793 The recommendation is to set a bit in an MSR - do this if the firmware didn't, considering that otherwise we expose ourselves to a guest induced DoS. This is...

OracleVM 2.2 : xen (OVMSA-2013-0092)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - x86/AMD: work around erratum 793 XSA-82 Jan Beulich 17884839 CVE-2013-6885 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The package checks in this plugin were extracted from OracleVM Security...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : Xen (SAT Patch Number 8973)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 3 Xen hypervisor and toolset has been updated to 4.2.4 to fix various bugs and security issues : The following security issues have been addressed : - XSA-60: CVE-2013-2212: The vmxsetucmode function in Xen 3.3 through 4.3, when disabling chaches,...

CVE-2013-6885

The microcode on AMD 16h 00h through 0Fh processors does not properly handle the interaction between locked instructions and write-combined memory types, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system hang via a crafted application, aka the errata 793 issue...