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SUSE SLED15: xen / xen-devel / xen-doc-html / xen-libs / xen-libs-32bit / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:3447-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 180311

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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-2023:3447-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2023-20569: Fixed side channel attack Inception or RAS Poisoning. (bsc#1214082, XSA-434)
 - CVE-2022-40982: Fixed transient execution attack called 'Gather Data Sampling'. (bsc#1214083, XSA-435)
 - CVE-2023-20593: Fixed a ZenBleed issue in 'Zen 2' CPUs that could allow an attacker to potentially access sensitive information. (bsc#1213616, XSA-433)

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/1027519

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1212684

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1213616

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1214082

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1214083

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2023-August/031207.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40982

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-20569

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-20593

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 180311

File Name: suse_SU-2023-3447-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/30/2023

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: 6.1

Percentile: 96.81

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-20593

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-40982

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools-domu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools-xendomains-wait-disk

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: 8/28/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/24/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-40982, CVE-2023-20569, CVE-2023-20593

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:3447-1