SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : Xen (SUSE-SU-2015:1045-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 84190

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Xen was updated to fix seven security vulnerabilities :

CVE-2015-4103: Potential unintended writes to host MSI message data field via qemu. (XSA-128, bnc#931625)

CVE-2015-4104: PCI MSI mask bits inadvertently exposed to guests.
(XSA-129, bnc#931626)

CVE-2015-4105: Guest triggerable qemu MSI-X pass-through error messages. (XSA-130, bnc#931627)

CVE-2015-4106: Unmediated PCI register access in qemu. (XSA-131, bnc#931628)

CVE-2015-4163: GNTTABOP_swap_grant_ref operation misbehavior.
(XSA-134, bnc#932790)

CVE-2015-3209: Heap overflow in qemu pcnet controller allowing guest to host escape. (XSA-135, bnc#932770)

CVE-2015-4164: DoS through iret hypercall handler. (XSA-136, bnc#932996)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp3-xen-201506=10727

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-xen-201506=10727

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp3-xen-201506=10727

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=931625

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=931626

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=931627

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=931628

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=932770

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=932790

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=932996

http://www.nessus.org/u?0950fd72

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3209/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4103/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4104/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4105/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4106/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4163/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4164/

http://www.nessus.org/u?5f488f66

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 84190

File Name: suse_SU-2015-1045-1.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/15/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-doc-html, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-doc-pdf, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-kmp-pae, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux: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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/11/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/3/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3209, CVE-2015-4103, CVE-2015-4104, CVE-2015-4105, CVE-2015-4106, CVE-2015-4163, CVE-2015-4164

BID: 74947, 74948, 74949, 74950, 75123, 75141, 75149