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Fedora 39 : xen (2024-e527e6fd08)

2024-02-1500:00:00
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fedora 39
xen
multiple vulnerabilities
advisory
cache cleaning
arm32
pci
phantom functions
vt-d
failure
quarantine
nessus scanner

3.3 Low

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.7%

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-e527e6fd08 advisory.

  • Arm provides multiple helpers to clean & invalidate the cache for a given region. This is, for instance, used when allocating guest memory to ensure any writes (such as the ones during scrubbing) have reached memory before handing over the page to a guest. Unfortunately, the arithmetics in the helpers can overflow and would then result to skip the cache cleaning/invalidation. Therefore there is no guarantee when all the writes will reach the memory. This undefined behavior was meant to be addressed by XSA-437, but the approach was not sufficient. (CVE-2023-46837)

  • PCI devices can make use of a functionality called phantom functions, that when enabled allows the device to generate requests using the IDs of functions that are otherwise unpopulated. This allows a device to extend the number of outstanding requests. Such phantom functions need an IOMMU context setup, but failure to setup the context is not fatal when the device is assigned. Not failing device assignment when such failure happens can lead to the primary device being assigned to a guest, while some of the phantom functions are assigned to a different domain. (CVE-2023-46839)

  • Incorrect placement of a preprocessor directive in source code results in logic that doesn’t operate as intended when support for HVM guests is compiled out of Xen. (CVE-2023-46840)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
##
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2024-e527e6fd08
#

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(190566);
  script_version("1.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/04/29");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2023-46837", "CVE-2023-46839", "CVE-2023-46840");
  script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2023-B-0090");
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2024-e527e6fd08");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 39 : xen (2024-e527e6fd08)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the
FEDORA-2024-e527e6fd08 advisory.

  - Arm provides multiple helpers to clean & invalidate the cache for a given region. This is, for instance,
    used when allocating guest memory to ensure any writes (such as the ones during scrubbing) have reached
    memory before handing over the page to a guest. Unfortunately, the arithmetics in the helpers can overflow
    and would then result to skip the cache cleaning/invalidation. Therefore there is no guarantee when all
    the writes will reach the memory. This undefined behavior was meant to be addressed by XSA-437, but the
    approach was not sufficient. (CVE-2023-46837)

  - PCI devices can make use of a functionality called phantom functions, that when enabled allows the device
    to generate requests using the IDs of functions that are otherwise unpopulated. This allows a device to
    extend the number of outstanding requests. Such phantom functions need an IOMMU context setup, but failure
    to setup the context is not fatal when the device is assigned. Not failing device assignment when such
    failure happens can lead to the primary device being assigned to a guest, while some of the phantom
    functions are assigned to a different domain. (CVE-2023-46839)

  - Incorrect placement of a preprocessor directive in source code results in logic that doesn't operate as
    intended when support for HVM guests is compiled out of Xen. (CVE-2023-46840)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-e527e6fd08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected xen package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N");
  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:U/C:L/I:N/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-46837");

  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:"2023/11/30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2024/01/30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2024/02/15");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:39");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 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/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include('rpm.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || 'Fedora' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Fedora');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Fedora');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^39([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Fedora 39', 'Fedora ' + os_ver);

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

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Fedora', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'xen-4.17.2-6.fc39', 'release':'FC39', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var reference = NULL;
  var _release = NULL;
  var sp = NULL;
  var _cpu = NULL;
  var el_string = NULL;
  var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
  var epoch = NULL;
  var allowmaj = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
  if (reference && _release) {
    if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_NOTE,
      extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'xen');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
fedoraprojectfedora39cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:39
fedoraprojectfedoraxenp-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen

3.3 Low

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.7%