SUSE SLED15: qemu / qemu-SLOF / qemu-arm / qemu-audio-alsa / qemu-audio-pa / etc (SUSE-SU-2022:0930-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 159172

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0930-1 advisory.

- CVE-2022-0358: Fixed a potential privilege escalation via virtiofsd (bsc#1195161).
- CVE-2021-3930: Fixed a potential denial of service in the emulated SCSI device (bsc#1192525).

Non-security fixes:

- Fixed a kernel data corruption via a long kernel boot cmdline (bsc#1196737).
- Included vmxcap in the qemu-tools package (bsc#1193364).
- Fixed package dependencies (bsc#1196087).
- Fixed an issue were PowerPC firmwares would not be built for non-PowerPC builds (bsc#1193545).
- Fixed multiple issues in I/O (bsc#1178049 bsc#1194938).

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 159172

File Name: suse_SU-2022-0930-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/23/2022

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, tenable_cloud_security, tenable_self_hosted_container_security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3930

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-0358

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-s390x, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-hw-display-virtio-gpu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-seabios, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ui-curses, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ipxe, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-skiboot, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-vgabios, 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-pa, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-x86, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ui-opengl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ui-gtk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ui-spice-app, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-hw-usb-redirect, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-ssh, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-sgabios, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-hw-display-virtio-gpu-pci, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-audio-spice, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-audio-alsa, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ppc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-hw-display-qxl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-hw-display-virtio-vga, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-chardev-baum, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-slof, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ksm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ui-spice-core, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-chardev-spice, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-hw-s390x-virtio-gpu-ccw

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: 3/22/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/9/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3930, CVE-2022-0358

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:0930-1

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