SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Xen (SAT Patch Number 7018)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 64238

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Synopsis

The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

XEN was updated to fix various bugs and security issues :

The following security issues have been fixed :

- xen: Domain builder Out-of-memory due to malicious kernel/ramdisk (XSA 25). (CVE-2012-4544)

- XEN / qemu: guest administrator can access qemu monitor console (XSA-19). (CVE-2012-4411)

- xen: Timer overflow DoS vulnerability (XSA 20).
(CVE-2012-4535)

- xen: pirq range check DoS vulnerability (XSA 21).
(CVE-2012-4536)

- xen: Memory mapping failure DoS vulnerability (XSA 22).
(CVE-2012-4537)

- xen: Unhooking empty PAE entries DoS vulnerability (XSA 23). (CVE-2012-4538)

- xen: Grant table hypercall infinite loop DoS vulnerability (XSA 24). (CVE-2012-4539)

- xen: multiple TMEM hypercall vulnerabilities (XSA-15) Also the following bugs have been fixed and upstream patches have been applied:. (CVE-2012-3497)

- L3: Xen BUG at io_apic.c:129 26102-x86-IOAPIC-legacy-not-first.patch. (bnc#784087)

- Upstream patches merged:
26054-x86-AMD-perf-ctr-init.patch 26055-x86-oprof-hvm-mode.patch 26056-page-alloc-flush-filter.patch 26061-x86-oprof-counter-range.patch 26062-ACPI-ERST-move-data.patch 26063-x86-HPET-affinity-lock.patch 26093-HVM-PoD-grant-mem-type.patch 25931-x86-domctl-iomem-mapping-checks.patch 25952-x86-MMIO-remap-permissions.patch 25808-domain_create-return-value.patch 25814-x86_64-set-debugreg-guest.patch 25815-x86-PoD-no-bug-in-non-translated.patch 25816-x86-hvm-map-pirq-range-check.patch 25833-32on64-bogus-pt_base-adjust.patch 25834-x86-S3-MSI-resume.patch 25835-adjust-rcu-lock-domain.patch 25836-VT-d-S3-MSI-resume.patch 25850-tmem-xsa-15-1.patch 25851-tmem-xsa-15-2.patch 25852-tmem-xsa-15-3.patch 25853-tmem-xsa-15-4.patch 25854-tmem-xsa-15-5.patch 25855-tmem-xsa-15-6.patch 25856-tmem-xsa-15-7.patch 25857-tmem-xsa-15-8.patch 25858-tmem-xsa-15-9.patch 25859-tmem-missing-break.patch 25860-tmem-cleanup.patch 25883-pt-MSI-cleanup.patch 25927-x86-domctl-ioport-mapping-range.patch 25929-tmem-restore-pool-version.patch

- first XEN-PV VM fails to spawn xend: Increase wait time for disk to appear in host bootloader Modified existing xen-domUloader.diff. (bnc#778105)

25752-ACPI-pm-op-valid-cpu.patch 25754-x86-PoD-early-access.patch 25755-x86-PoD-types.patch 25756-x86-MMIO-max-mapped-pfn.patch

Solution

Apply SAT patch number 7018.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 64238

File Name: suse_11_xen-201211-121102.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 1/25/2013

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:xen-doc-html, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:xen-doc-pdf, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:xen-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:xen-kmp-pae, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:xen-kmp-trace, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:xen-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:xen-libs-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:xen-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:xen-tools-domu, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 11/2/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3497, CVE-2012-4411, CVE-2012-4535, CVE-2012-4536, CVE-2012-4537, CVE-2012-4538, CVE-2012-4539, CVE-2012-4544

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