SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kvm (SUSE-SU-2018:0039-1) (Spectre)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 105684

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for kvm fixes the following issues: A security flaw mitigation has been applied :

- CVE-2017-5715: QEMU was updated to allow passing through new MSR and CPUID flags from the host VM to the CPU, to allow enabling/disabling branch prediction features in the Intel CPU. (bsc#1068032) Also a security fix has been applied :

- CVE-2017-2633: Fix various out of bounds access issues in the QEMU vnc infrastructure (bsc#1026612)

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 Server 11-SP3-LTSS:zypper in -t patch slessp3-kvm-13397=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3:zypper in -t patch sleposp3-kvm-13397=1

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 105684

File Name: suse_SU-2018-0039-1.nasl

Version: 3.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 1/9/2018

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kvm

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: 1/8/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/4/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2633, CVE-2017-5715

IAVA: 2018-A-0020

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