SUSE SLES15: kubevirt-container-disk / kubevirt-manifests / kubevirt-tests / etc (SUSE-SU-2022:3321-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 165293

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3321-1 advisory.

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2022-1798: Fix arbitrary file read on the host from KubeVirt VMs (bsc#1202516)

Security issues fixed in vendored dependencies:

- CVE-2022-1996: Fixed go-restful CORS bypass (bsc#1200528)
- CVE-2022-29162: Fixed runc incorrect handling of inheritable capabilities in default configuration (bsc#1199460)

Other fixes:

- Pack nft rules and nsswitch.conf for virt-handler
- Only create 1MiB-aligned disk images (bsc#1199603)
- Avoid to return nil failure message
- Use semantic equality comparison
- Allow to configure utility containers for update test
- Install nftables to manage network rules
- Install tar to allow kubectl cp ...
- Symlink nsswitch.conf and nft rules to proper locations
- Enable USB redirection support for QEMU
- Install vim-small instread of vim
- Drop libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core
- Install ethtool and gawk (bsc#1199392)
- Use non-versioned appliance to avoid redundant rpm query
- Explicitly state the dependency on kubevirt main package

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: Critical

ID: 165293

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3321-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/21/2022

Updated: 6/25/2026

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: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-1996

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kubevirt-virtctl, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kubevirt-manifests

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: 9/20/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/11/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-1798, CVE-2022-1996, CVE-2022-29162

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3321-1

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