SUSE SLES12: xen / xen-devel / xen-doc-html / xen-libs / xen-libs-32bit / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:1105-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 192988

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1105-1 advisory.

- CVE-2023-28746: Register file data sampling. (bsc#1221332)
- CVE-2024-2193: Fixed GhostRace, a speculative race conditions. (bsc#1221334)

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/1220141

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1221332

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1221334

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2024-April/034840.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28746

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-2193

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 192988

File Name: suse_SU-2024-1105-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/8/2024

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: High

Score: 7.1

Percentile: 98.47

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-2193

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-2023-28746

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-libs-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-doc-html, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools-domu, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-devel

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: 4/3/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/12/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28746, CVE-2024-2193

IAVB: 2023-B-0090-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:1105-1