SUSE SLES10 Security Update : Xen (SUSE-SU-2016:0658-1)

High Nessus Plugin ID 89723

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VPR Score: 9.9

Synopsis

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

Description

Xen was updated to fix the following vulnerabilities :

CVE-2014-0222: Qcow1 L2 table size integer overflows (bsc#877642)

CVE-2015-4037: Insecure temporary file use in /net/slirp.c (bsc#932267)

CVE-2015-5239: Integer overflow in vnc_client_read() and protocol_client_msg() (bsc#944463)

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

CVE-2015-7971: Some pmu and profiling hypercalls log without rate limiting (XSA-152, bsc#950706)

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

CVE-2015-5307: Guest to host DOS by intercepting #AC (XSA-156, bsc#953527)

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

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

CVE-2015-7512: Buffer overflow in pcnet's non-loopback mode (bsc#962360)

CVE-2015-8550: Paravirtualized drivers incautious about shared memory contents (XSA-155, bsc#957988)

CVE-2015-8504: Avoid floating point exception in vnc support (bsc#958493)

CVE-2015-8555: Information leak in legacy x86 FPU/XMM initialization (XSA-165, bsc#958009)

Ioreq handling possibly susceptible to multiple read issue (XSA-166, bsc#958523)

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

Update the affected Xen packages

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=877642

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=932267

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=944463

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950706

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953527

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=956411

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=957988

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=958009

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=958493

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=958523

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962360

http://www.nessus.org/u?2274b2c7

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0222/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4037/

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-2015-7504/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7512/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7971/

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-2015-8504/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8550/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8555/

http://www.nessus.org/u?4d34111f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 89723

File Name: suse_SU-2016-0658-1.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2016/03/07

Updated: 2021/01/06

Dependencies: 12634

Risk Information

Risk Factor: High

VPR Score: 9.9

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/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-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-doc-html, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-doc-pdf, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-doc-ps, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-kmp-bigsmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-kmp-debug, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-kmp-kdump, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-kmp-kdumppae, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-kmp-smp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-kmp-vmi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-kmp-vmipae, 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-tools-ioemu, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:10

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

Exploit Available: false

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2016/03/04

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2014/11/04

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0222, CVE-2015-4037, CVE-2015-5239, CVE-2015-5307, CVE-2015-7504, CVE-2015-7512, CVE-2015-7971, CVE-2015-8104, CVE-2015-8339, CVE-2015-8340, CVE-2015-8504, CVE-2015-8550, CVE-2015-8555

BID: 67357, 74809