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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : oracleasm kmp (SUSE-SU-2018:1503-1) (Spectre)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 110339

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update provides rebuilt kernel modules for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 products with retpoline enablement to address Spectre Variant 2 (CVE-2017-5715 bsc#1068032). Following modules have been rebuilt :

 - drbd

 - oracleasm

 - crash

 - lttng-modules

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 the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-1027=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-1027=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-HA-12-SP3-2018-1027=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1068032

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5715/

http://www.nessus.org/u?63e6b6d4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 110339

File Name: suse_SU-2018-1503-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/6/2018

Updated: 4/15/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:crash, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:crash-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:crash-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:crash-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:crash-kmp-default-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:lttng-modules, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:lttng-modules-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:lttng-modules-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:lttng-modules-kmp-default-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:oracleasm-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:oracleasm-kmp-default-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/5/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/4/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5715

IAVA: 2018-A-0020