SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2019:2954-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 130952

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for qemu fixes the following issues :

Patch queue updated from https://gitlab.suse.de/virtualization/qemu.git SLE15

Fix use-after-free in slirp (CVE-2018-20126 bsc#1119991)

Fix potential DOS in lsi scsi controller emulation (CVE-2019-12068 bsc#1146873)

Expose taa-no 'feature', indicating CPU does not have the TSX Async Abort vulnerability. (CVE-2019-11135 bsc#1152506)

Expose pschange-mc-no 'feature', indicating CPU does not have the page size change machine check vulnerability (CVE-2018-12207 bsc#1155812)

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 Module for Server Applications 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-2019-2954=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Open Buildservice Development Tools 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-OBS-15-2019-2954=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2019-2954=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1119991

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1146873

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1152506

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155812

https://gitlab.suse.de/virtualization/qemu.git

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12207/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20126/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11135/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-12068/

http://www.nessus.org/u?fb12ce52

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 130952

File Name: suse_SU-2019-2954-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/13/2019

Updated: 1/13/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11135

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-curl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-dmg, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-dmg-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-iscsi-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-rbd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-rbd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-ssh, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-ssh-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-extra, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-extra-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-linux-user, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-linux-user-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-linux-user-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-s390, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-s390-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-x86, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-x86-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 11/12/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/20/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12207, CVE-2018-20126, CVE-2019-11135, CVE-2019-12068