SUSE SLES12 Security Update : libvirt (SUSE-SU-2018:2141-1) (Spectre)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 111503

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for libvirt fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed :

- CVE-2018-3639: Add support for 'ssbd' and 'virt-ssbd' CPUID feature bits to address V4 Speculative Store Bypass aka 'Memory Disambiguation' (bsc#1092885).

- CVE-2018-1064: Fix denial of service problem during reading from guest agent (bsc#1083625).

- CVE-2018-5748: Fix resource exhaustion via qemuMonitorIORead() method (bsc#1076500).

- CVE-2016-5008: Fix that an empty VNC password disables authentication (bsc#987527).

- CVE-2017-5715: Fix speculative side channel attacks aka 'SpectreAttack' (var2) (bsc#1079869). Bug fixes :

- bsc#980558: Fix NUMA node memory allocation.

- bsc#968483: Restart daemons in %posttrans after connection drivers.

- bsc#897352: Systemd fails to ignore LSB services.

- bsc#956298: virsh domxml-to-native causes segfault of libvirtd.

- bsc#964465: libvirtd.service causes systemd warning about xencommons service.

- bsc#954872: Script block-dmmd not working as expected.

- bsc#854343: libvirt installation run inappropriate systemd restart.

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 Server 12-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2018-1455=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 111503

File Name: suse_SU-2018-2141-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/2/2018

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-5008

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-lock-sanlock, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-config-network, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-network, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-lock-sanlock-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-interface, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-network-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-qemu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-secret, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-secret-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-interface-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-lxc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-debuginfo

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: 7/30/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/13/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5008, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2018-1064, CVE-2018-3639, CVE-2018-5748

IAVA: 2018-A-0020

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