SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2021:1023-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 148365

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for xen fixes the following issues :

CVE-2021-3308: VUL-0: xen: IRQ vector leak on x86 (bsc#1181254, XSA-360)

CVE-2021-28687: VUL-0: xen: HVM soft-reset crashes toolstack (bsc#1183072, XSA-368)

CVE-2021-20257: VUL-0: xen: infinite loop issue in the e1000 NIC emulator (bsc#1182846)

CVE-2020-28368: VUL-0: xen: Intel RAPL sidechannel attack aka PLATYPUS attack aka (bsc#1178591, XSA-351)

L3: conring size for XEN HV's with huge memory to small. Inital Xen logs cut (bsc#1177204)

Kdump of HVM fails, soft-reset not handled by libxl (bsc#1179148)

OpenQA job causes libvirtd to dump core when running kdump inside domain (bsc#1181989)

Allow restart of xenwatchdogd, enable tuning of keep-alive interval and timeout options via XENWATCHDOGD_ARGS= (bsc#1178736)

The receiving side did detect holes in a to-be-allocated superpage, but allocated a superpage anyway. This resulted to over-allocation (bsc#1177112)

The receiving side may punch holes incorrectly into optimistically allocated superpages. Also reduce overhead in bitmap handling (bsc#1177112)

Upstream bug fixes (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 12-SP5 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP5-2021-1023=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2021-1023=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 148365

File Name: suse_SU-2021-1023-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/7/2021

Updated: 3/23/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-28368

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-doc-html, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools-domu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools-domu-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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: 4/6/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/10/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-28368, CVE-2021-20257, CVE-2021-28687, CVE-2021-3308

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