SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libvirt (SUSE-SU-2018:2304-1) (Spectre)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 111664

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for libvirt fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed :

- CVE-2018-3639: Add support for 'ssbd' and 'virt-ssbd' CPUID feature bits to address V4 Speculative Store Bypass aka 'Memory Disambiguation' (bsc#1092885). Bug fixes :

- bsc#1094325: Enable virsh blockresize for XEN guests (FATE#325467).

- bsc#1095556: Fix qemu VM creating with --boot uefi due to missing AppArmor profile.

- bsc#1094725: Fix `virsh blockresize` to work with Xen qdisks.

- bsc#1094480: Fix `virsh list` to list domains with `xl list`.

- bsc#1087416: Fix missing video device within guest with default installation by virt-mamanger.

- bsc#1079150: Fix libvirt-guests start dependency.

- bsc#1076861: Fix locking of lockspace resource '/devcfs/disks/uatidmsvn1-xvda'.

- bsc#1074014: Fix KVM live migration when shutting down cluster node.

- bsc#959329: Fix wrong state of VMs in virtual manager.

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 the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-1545=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-1545=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-1545=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 111664

File Name: suse_SU-2018-2304-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/13/2018

Updated: 8/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-3639

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-disk-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-disk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-network-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-hooks, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-qemu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-logical, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-admin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-logical-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-secret, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-scsi-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-nss-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-mpath, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-secret-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-interface-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-lxc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-admin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-lock-sanlock, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-config-network, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-network, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-scsi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-nss, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-mpath-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-lock-sanlock-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-interface

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/10/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/22/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-3639

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