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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2015:2324-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 87588

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update fixes the following security issues :

 - bsc#956832 - CVE-2015-8345: xen: qemu: net: eepro100:
 infinite loop in processing command block list

 - Revert x86/IO-APIC: don't create pIRQ mapping from masked RTE until kernel maintenance release goes out.

 - bsc#956592 - xen: virtual PMU is unsupported (XSA-163)

 - bsc#956408 - CVE-2015-8339, CVE-2015-8340: xen:
 XENMEM_exchange error handling issues (XSA-159)

 - bsc#956409 - CVE-2015-8341: xen: libxl leak of pv kernel and initrd on error (XSA-160)

 - bsc#956411 - CVE-2015-7504: xen: heap buffer overflow vulnerability in pcnet emulator (XSA-162)

 - bsc#947165 - CVE-2015-7311: xen: libxl fails to honour readonly flag on disks with qemu-xen (xsa-142)

 - bsc#954405 - CVE-2015-8104: Xen: guest to host DoS by triggering an infinite loop in microcode via #DB exception

 - bsc#954018 - CVE-2015-5307: xen: x86: CPU lockup during fault delivery (XSA-156)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP1-2015-999=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2015-999=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2015-999=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947165

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=954018

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=954405

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956408

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956409

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956411

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956592

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956832

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3259/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4106/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5154/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5239/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5307/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6815/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7311/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7504/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7835/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8104/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8339/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8340/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8341/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8345/

http://www.nessus.org/u?fc855953

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 87588

File Name: suse_SU-2015-2324-1.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/22/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-doc-html, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-kmp-default-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools-domu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools-domu-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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: 12/19/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/3/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3259, CVE-2015-4106, CVE-2015-5154, CVE-2015-5239, CVE-2015-5307, CVE-2015-6815, CVE-2015-7311, CVE-2015-7504, CVE-2015-7835, CVE-2015-8104, CVE-2015-8339, CVE-2015-8340, CVE-2015-8341, CVE-2015-8345

BID: 74949, 75573