SUSE SLES12: qemu / qemu-block-curl / qemu-block-rbd / qemu-block-ssh / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:2358-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 176649

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2358-1 advisory.

- CVE-2022-0216: Fixed a use-after-free in lsi_do_msgout() in hw/scsi/lsi53c895a.c (bsc#1198038).
- CVE-2021-3929: Fixed use-after-free in nvme, caused by DMA reentrancy issue (bsc#1193880).
- CVE-2021-4207: Fixed heap buffer overflow caused by double fetch in qxl_cursor() (bsc#1198037).
- CVE-2021-4206: Fixed integer overflow in cursor_alloc() (bsc#1198035).
- Amend .changes file: avoid declaring a still unfixed CVE, as fixed (bsc#1187529)
- Fix the build breaks caused by binutils update (bsc#1192463, bsc#1193621)

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: 176649

File Name: suse_SU-2023-2358-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/3/2023

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

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-2021-4207

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/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:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-seabios, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-ssh, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-x86, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ipxe, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-sgabios, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-vgabios, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-rbd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-guest-agent

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: 6/2/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3929, CVE-2021-4206, CVE-2021-4207, CVE-2022-0216

IAVB: 2022-B-0057-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:2358-1

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