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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2021:1893-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 150414
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Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.Description
The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:1893-1 advisory.- CVE-2020-25085: Fix out-of-bounds access issue while doing multi block SDMA (bsc#1176681)
- CVE-2020-10756: Fix out-of-bounds read information disclosure in icmp6_send_echoreply(bsc#1172380)
- Fix issue where s390 guest fails to find zipl boot menu index (bsc#1183979)
- QEMU BIOS fails to read stage2 loader on s390x (bsc#1186290)
- Host CPU microcode revision will be visible inside VMs when the proper CPU-model is used (jsc#SLE-17785):
- For the record, these issues are fixed in this package already.
Most are alternate references to previously mentioned issues:
(CVE-2019-15890, bsc#1149813, CVE-2020-8608, bsc#1163019, CVE-2020-14364, bsc#1175534, CVE-2020-25707, bsc#1178683, CVE-2020-25723, bsc#1178935, CVE-2020-29130, bsc#1179477, CVE-2020-29129, bsc#1179484, CVE-2021-20257, bsc#1182846, CVE-2021-3419, bsc#1182975)
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1149813
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1163019
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1172380
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1175534
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1176681
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178683
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178935
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179477
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179484
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1182846
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1182975
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1183979
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186290
http://www.nessus.org/u?9b163342
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-15890
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8608
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10756
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14364
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25085
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25723
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-29129
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 150414
File Name: suse_SU-2021-1893-1.nasl
Version: 1.8
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 6/9/2021
Updated: 9/24/2025
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 5.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8608
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.5
Temporal Score: 5.9
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-10756
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-sgabios, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ppc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-x86, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ipxe, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ui-spice-app, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-audio-pa, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-seabios, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-arm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-rbd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-audio-alsa, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ui-curses, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ui-gtk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-s390, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-microvm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-ssh, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-vgabios, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15
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: 6/8/2021
Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/6/2019
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2019-15890, CVE-2020-10756, CVE-2020-14364, CVE-2020-25085, CVE-2020-25723, CVE-2020-29129, CVE-2020-29130, CVE-2020-8608, CVE-2021-20257
IAVB: 2020-B-0063-S, 2020-B-0075-S
SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:1893-1