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SUSE SLES11 Security Update : various KMPs (SUSE-SU-2019:13999-1) (Spectre)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 123554

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update rebuilds missing kernel modules (KMP) to use 'retpolines' mitigations for Spectre Variant 2 (CVE-2017-5715).

Rebuilt KMP packages :

cluster-network

drbd

gfs2

iscsitarget

ocfs2

ofed

oracleasm

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-kmps-retpoline-20190320-13999=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-kmps-retpoline-20190320-13999=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slertesp4-kmps-retpoline-20190320-13999=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slehasp4-kmps-retpoline-20190320-13999=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-kmps-retpoline-20190320-13999=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1095824

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?a51a552f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 123554

File Name: suse_SU-2019-13999-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/1/2019

Updated: 1/26/2022

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 Score Source: CVE-2017-5715

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:iscsitarget, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:iscsitarget-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:iscsitarget-kmp-pae, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:iscsitarget-kmp-trace, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:iscsitarget-kmp-xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ofed, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ofed-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ofed-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ofed-kmp-pae, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ofed-kmp-trace, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:oracleasm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:oracleasm-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:oracleasm-kmp-pae, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:oracleasm-kmp-trace, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:oracleasm-kmp-xen, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

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: 3/29/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/4/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5715