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SUSE SLES15: qemu / qemu-arm / qemu-audio-alsa / qemu-audio-pa / qemu-block-curl / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:0878-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 173379

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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-2023:0878-1 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).


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/1185000

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190425

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1202364

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1205808

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

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?d744bf7e

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 173379

File Name: suse_SU-2023-0878-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/24/2023

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: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3507

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-ssh, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-sgabios, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-lang, 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-ppc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-microvm, 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-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-ui-gtk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ui-spice-app, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-s390

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: 3/23/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/6/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3507, CVE-2022-4144

IAVB: 2022-B-0057-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:0878-1