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SUSE SLES15: qemu / qemu-SLOF / qemu-arm / qemu-audio-alsa / qemu-audio-pa / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:0840-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 173215

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:0840-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2022-4144: Fixed unsafe address translation can lead to out-of-bounds read in qxl_phys2virt (bsc#1205808).
 - CVE-2021-3507: Fixed heap buffer overflow in DMA read data transfers in fdc (bsc#1185000).
 - CVE-2020-14394: Fixed infinite loop in xhci_ring_chain_length() (bsc#1180207).
 - CVE-2022-0216: Fixed a use-after-free in lsi_do_msgout function in hw/scsi/lsi53c895a.c (bsc#1198038).
 - CVE-2022-1050: Fixed a use-after-free issue in pvrdma_exec_cmd() in pvrdma (bsc#1197653).
 - CVE-2021-3929: Fixed a DMA reentrancy issue leads to use-after-free in nvme (bsc#1193880).


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/1180207

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185000

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1193880

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1197653

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1198038

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1202364

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1205808

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14394

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3507

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3929

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0216

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1050

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4144

http://www.nessus.org/u?877079be

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 173215

File Name: suse_SU-2023-0840-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/22/2023

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 95.11

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-1050

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 3/21/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/6/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14394, CVE-2021-3507, CVE-2021-3929, CVE-2022-0216, CVE-2022-1050, CVE-2022-4144

IAVB: 2022-B-0057-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:0840-1