SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1603-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)
Medium Nessus Plugin ID 110444
Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed :
- CVE-2018-3639: Prevent attackers with local user access from extracting information via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Store Bypass (SSB), Variant 4 (bsc#1092631).
- CVE-2017-5753,CVE-2017-5715,CVE-2017-5754: Improved Spectre v2 mitigations (bsc#1074562). bsc#1027519
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 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch sdksp4-xen-13647=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-xen-13647=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-xen-13647=1