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SUSE SLED15: qemu / qemu-SLOF / qemu-accel-qtest / qemu-accel-tcg-x86 / qemu-arm / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:3082-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 179196

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3082-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2023-3301: Fixed incorrect cleanup of the vdpa/vhost-net structures if peer nic is present (bsc#1213414).
 - CVE-2023-0330: Fixed reentrancy issues in the LSI controller (bsc#1207205).
 - CVE-2023-2861: Fixed opening special files in 9pfs (bsc#1212968).
 - CVE-2023-3255: Fixed infinite loop in inflate_buffer() leads to denial of service (bsc#1213001).

 Bugfixes:

 - hw/ide/piix: properly initialize the BMIBA register (bsc#bsc#1179993)
 - Fixed issue where Guest did not run on XEN SLES15SP2 (bsc#1181740).

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/1179993

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1181740

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1207205

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1212968

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1213001

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1213414

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-0330

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2861

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3255

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3301

http://www.nessus.org/u?43542275

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 179196

File Name: suse_SU-2023-3082-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/2/2023

Updated: 6/25/2026

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: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-2861

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: 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-audio-dbus, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ipxe, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-skiboot, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ui-dbus, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-arm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-vgabios, 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-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-hw-usb-host, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ui-opengl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ui-gtk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-hw-usb-redirect, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-ssh, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-accel-tcg-x86, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-sgabios, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-hw-display-virtio-gpu-pci, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-audio-spice, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-audio-alsa, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ppc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-hw-display-qxl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-hw-display-virtio-vga, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-chardev-baum, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-slof, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ksm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ui-spice-core, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-chardev-spice, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-hw-s390x-virtio-gpu-ccw, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-s390x, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-hw-display-virtio-gpu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ui-spice-app, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-iscsi

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/31/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-0330, CVE-2023-2861, CVE-2023-3255, CVE-2023-3301

IAVB: 2023-B-0019-S, 2023-B-0058-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:3082-1