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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : Security update to ucode-intel (SUSE-SU-2018:2338-1) (Foreshadow) (Spectre)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 120080

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Synopsis

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

Description

ucode-intel was updated to the 20180807 release. For the listed CPU chipsets this fixes CVE-2018-3640 (Spectre v3a) and is part of the mitigations for CVE-2018-3639 (Spectre v4) and CVE-2018-3646 (L1 Terminal fault). (bsc#1104134 bsc#1087082 bsc#1087083 bsc#1089343) Processor Identifier Version Products Model Stepping F-MO-S/PI Old->New

---- new platforms ---------------------------------------- WSM-EP/WS U1 6-2c-2/03 0000001f Xeon E/L/X56xx, W36xx NHM-EX D0 6-2e-6/04 0000000d Xeon E/L/X65xx/75xx BXT C0 6-5c-2/01 00000014 Atom T5500/5700 APL E0 6-5c-a/03 0000000c Atom x5-E39xx DVN B0 6-5f-1/01 00000024 Atom C3xxx

---- updated platforms ------------------------------------ NHM-EP/WS D0 6-1a-5/03 00000019->0000001d Xeon E/L/X/W55xx NHM B1 6-1e-5/13 00000007->0000000a Core i7-8xx, i5-7xx;
Xeon L3426, X24xx WSM B1 6-25-2/12 0000000e->00000011 Core i7-6xx, i5-6xx/4xxM, i3-5xx/3xxM, Pentium G69xx, Celeon P45xx; Xeon L3406 WSM K0 6-25-5/92 00000004->00000007 Core i7-6xx, i5-6xx/5xx/4xx, i3-5xx/3xx, Pentium G69xx/P6xxx/U5xxx, Celeron P4xxx/U3xxx SNB D2 6-2a-7/12 0000002d->0000002e Core Gen2; Xeon E3 WSM-EX A2 6-2f-2/05 00000037->0000003b Xeon E7 IVB E2 6-3a-9/12 0000001f->00000020 Core Gen3 Mobile HSW-H/S/E3 Cx/Dx 6-3c-3/32 00000024->00000025 Core Gen4 Desktop; Xeon E3 v3 BDW-U/Y E/F 6-3d-4/c0 0000002a->0000002b Core Gen5 Mobile HSW-ULT Cx/Dx 6-45-1/72 00000023->00000024 Core Gen4 Mobile and derived Pentium/Celeron HSW-H Cx 6-46-1/32 00000019->0000001a Core Extreme i7-5xxxX BDW-H/E3 E/G 6-47-1/22 0000001d->0000001e Core i5-5xxxR/C, i7-5xxxHQ/EQ;
Xeon E3 v4 SKL-U/Y D0 6-4e-3/c0 000000c2->000000c6 Core Gen6 Mobile BDX-DE V1 6-56-2/10 00000015->00000017 Xeon D-1520/40 BDX-DE V2/3 6-56-3/10 07000012->07000013 Xeon D-1518/19/21/27/28/31/33/37/41/48, Pentium D1507/08/09/17/19 BDX-DE Y0 6-56-4/10 0f000011->0f000012 Xeon D-1557/59/67/71/77/81/87 APL D0 6-5c-9/03 0000002c->00000032 Pentium N/J4xxx, Celeron N/J3xxx, Atom x5/7-E39xx SKL-H/S/E3 R0 6-5e-3/36 000000c2->000000c6 Core Gen6; Xeon E3 v5

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 Module for Basesystem 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2018-1580=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1087082

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1087083

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1089343

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104134

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3639/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3640/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3646/

http://www.nessus.org/u?3db2d634

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 120080

File Name: suse_SU-2018-2338-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/2/2019

Updated: 4/16/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-3646

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ucode-intel

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: 8/15/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/22/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-3639, CVE-2018-3640, CVE-2018-3646