The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3960-1 advisory.

  - Xenstore: Guests can crash xenstored Due to a bug in the fix of XSA-115 a malicious guest can cause     xenstored to use a wrong pointer during node creation in an error path, resulting in a crash of xenstored     or a memory corruption in xenstored causing further damage. Entering the error path can be controlled by     the guest e.g. by exceeding the quota value of maximum nodes per domain. (CVE-2022-42309)

  - Xenstore: Guests can create orphaned Xenstore nodes By creating multiple nodes inside a transaction     resulting in an error, a malicious guest can create orphaned nodes in the Xenstore data base, as the     cleanup after the error will not remove all nodes already created. When the transaction is committed after     this situation, nodes without a valid parent can be made permanent in the data base. (CVE-2022-42310)

  - Xenstore: guests can let run xenstored out of memory T[his CNA information record relates to multiple     CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.] Malicious guests can cause     xenstored to allocate vast amounts of memory, eventually resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) of     xenstored. There are multiple ways how guests can cause large memory allocations in xenstored: - - by     issuing new requests to xenstored without reading the responses, causing the responses to be buffered in     memory - - by causing large number of watch events to be generated via setting up multiple xenstore     watches and then e.g. deleting many xenstore nodes below the watched path - - by creating as many nodes as     allowed with the maximum allowed size and path length in as many transactions as possible - - by accessing     many nodes inside a transaction (CVE-2022-42311, CVE-2022-42312, CVE-2022-42313, CVE-2022-42314,     CVE-2022-42315, CVE-2022-42316, CVE-2022-42317, CVE-2022-42318)

  - Xenstore: Guests can cause Xenstore to not free temporary memory When working on a request of a guest,     xenstored might need to allocate quite large amounts of memory temporarily. This memory is freed only     after the request has been finished completely. A request is regarded to be finished only after the guest     has read the response message of the request from the ring page. Thus a guest not reading the response can     cause xenstored to not free the temporary memory. This can result in memory shortages causing Denial of     Service (DoS) of xenstored. (CVE-2022-42319)

  - Xenstore: Guests can get access to Xenstore nodes of deleted domains Access rights of Xenstore nodes are     per domid. When a domain is gone, there might be Xenstore nodes left with access rights containing the     domid of the removed domain. This is normally no problem, as those access right entries will be corrected     when such a node is written later. There is a small time window when a new domain is created, where the     access rights of a past domain with the same domid as the new one will be regarded to be still valid,     leading to the new domain being able to get access to a node which was meant to be accessible by the     removed domain. For this to happen another domain needs to write the node before the newly created domain     is being introduced to Xenstore by dom0. (CVE-2022-42320)

  - Xenstore: Guests can crash xenstored via exhausting the stack Xenstored is using recursion for some     Xenstore operations (e.g. for deleting a sub-tree of Xenstore nodes). With sufficiently deep nesting     levels this can result in stack exhaustion on xenstored, leading to a crash of xenstored. (CVE-2022-42321)

  - Xenstore: Cooperating guests can create arbitrary numbers of nodes T[his CNA information record relates to     multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.] Since the fix of     XSA-322 any Xenstore node owned by a removed domain will be modified to be owned by Dom0. This will allow     two malicious guests working together to create an arbitrary number of Xenstore nodes. This is possible by     domain A letting domain B write into domain A's local Xenstore tree. Domain B can then create many nodes     and reboot. The nodes created by domain B will now be owned by Dom0. By repeating this process over and     over again an arbitrary number of nodes can be created, as Dom0's number of nodes isn't limited by     Xenstore quota. (CVE-2022-42322, CVE-2022-42323)

  - Xenstore: Guests can create arbitrary number of nodes via transactions T[his CNA information record     relates to multiple CVEs; the text explains which aspects/vulnerabilities correspond to which CVE.] In     case a node has been created in a transaction and it is later deleted in the same transaction, the     transaction will be terminated with an error. As this error is encountered only when handling the deleted     node at transaction finalization, the transaction will have been performed partially and without updating     the accounting information. This will enable a malicious guest to create arbitrary number of nodes.
    (CVE-2022-42325, CVE-2022-42326)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2022:3960-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 167333

Version 1.3