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HistoryDec 14, 2016 - 12:00 a.m.

FreeBSD : xen-kernel -- x86 CMPXCHG8B emulation fails to ignore operand size override (80a897a2-c1a6-11e6-ae1b-002590263bf5)

2016-12-1400:00:00
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10

2.1 Low

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

26.1%

The Xen Project reports :

The x86 instruction CMPXCHG8B is supposed to ignore legacy operand size overrides; it only honors the REX.W override (making it CMPXCHG16B). So, the operand size is always 8 or 16. When support for CMPXCHG16B emulation was added to the instruction emulator, this restriction on the set of possible operand sizes was relied on in some parts of the emulation; but a wrong, fully general, operand size value was used for other parts of the emulation. As a result, if a guest uses a supposedly-ignored operand size prefix, a small amount of hypervisor stack data is leaked to the guests: a 96 bit leak to guests running in 64-bit mode; or, a 32 bit leak to other guests.

A malicious unprivileged guest may be able to obtain sensitive information from the host.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
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#
# 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(95787);
  script_version("3.9");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-9932");
  script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2016-B-0190-S");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : xen-kernel -- x86 CMPXCHG8B emulation fails to ignore operand size override (80a897a2-c1a6-11e6-ae1b-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 x86 instruction CMPXCHG8B is supposed to ignore legacy operand
size overrides; it only honors the REX.W override (making it
CMPXCHG16B). So, the operand size is always 8 or 16. When support for
CMPXCHG16B emulation was added to the instruction emulator, this
restriction on the set of possible operand sizes was relied on in some
parts of the emulation; but a wrong, fully general, operand size value
was used for other parts of the emulation. As a result, if a guest
uses a supposedly-ignored operand size prefix, a small amount of
hypervisor stack data is leaked to the guests: a 96 bit leak to guests
running in 64-bit mode; or, a 32 bit leak to other guests.

A malicious unprivileged guest may be able to obtain sensitive
information from the host."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-200.html"
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/80a897a2-c1a6-11e6-ae1b-002590263bf5.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?6b2cb9d9"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
  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_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:"2016/12/13");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/12/14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/12/14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2021 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<4.7.1_1")) flag++;

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

2.1 Low

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

26.1%