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SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kvm (SUSE-SU-2021:14772-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 152199

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES11 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:14772-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2021-3594: invalid pointer initialization may lead to information disclosure in slirp (udp) (bsc#1187367)
 - CVE-2021-3592: invalid pointer initialization may lead to information disclosure (bootp). (bsc#1187364)
 - CVE-2021-3416: infinite loop in loopback mode may lead to stack overflow. (bsc#1186473)
 - CVE-2020-15469: MMIO ops null pointer dereference may lead to DoS. (bsc#1173612)
 - CVE-2020-11947: iscsi_aio_ioctl_cb in block/iscsi.c has a heap-based buffer over-read. (bsc#1180523)
 - CVE-2021-20221: out-of-bound heap buffer access via an interrupt ID field. (bsc#1181933)
 - CVE-2020-25707: infinite loop in e1000e_write_packet_to_guest() in hw/net/e1000e_core.c. (bsc#1178683)
 - CVE-2020-15863: stack-based overflow in xgmac_enet_send() in hw/net/xgmac.c. (bsc#1174386)

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 kvm package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1173612

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1174386

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178683

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1180523

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1181933

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186473

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1187364

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1187367

http://www.nessus.org/u?714dfca8

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-11947

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15469

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15863

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3416

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3592

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3594

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20221

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 152199

File Name: suse_SU-2021-14772-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/4/2021

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-15863

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kvm, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

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: 8/3/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11947, CVE-2020-15469, CVE-2020-15863, CVE-2021-20221, CVE-2021-3416, CVE-2021-3592, CVE-2021-3594

IAVB: 2020-B-0041-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:14772-1