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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libvirt (SUSE-SU-2019:0948-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 124082

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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-2019-3840: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in virJSONValueObjectHasKey function which could have resulted in a remote denial of service via the guest agent (bsc#1127458).

CVE-2019-3886: Fixed an information leak which allowed to retrieve the guest hostname under readonly mode (bsc#1131595).

Other issues addressed: libxl: support Xen's max_grant_frames setting with maxGrantFrames attribute on the xenbus controller (bsc#1126325).

conf: added new 'xenbus' controller type

util: skip RDMA detection for non-PCI network devices (bsc#1112182).

qemu: don't use CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE capability if non-root (bsc#1125665).

qemu: fix issues related to restricted permissions on /dev/sev(bsc#1102604).

libxl: save current memory value after successful balloon (bsc#1120813).

libxl: Add support for soft reset. (bsc#1081516)

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-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP4-2019-948=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2019-948=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP4-2019-948=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1081516

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102604

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1112182

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1120813

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1125665

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1126325

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1127458

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1131595

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3840/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3886/

http://www.nessus.org/u?68bcf8e0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 124082

File Name: suse_SU-2019-0948-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/16/2019

Updated: 6/3/2024

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: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-3886

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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, 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-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-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/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/15/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3840, CVE-2019-3886