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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : ucode-intel (SUSE-SU-2019:1910-1) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 126914

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues :

This update contains the Intel QSR 2019.1 Microcode release (bsc#1111331)

Four new speculative execution information leak issues have been identified in Intel CPUs. (bsc#1111331)

CVE-2018-12126: Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling (MSBDS)

CVE-2018-12127: Microarchitectural Fill Buffer Data Sampling (MFBDS)

CVE-2018-12130: Microarchitectural Load Port Data Samling (MLPDS)

CVE-2019-11091: Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory (MDSUM)

These updates contain the CPU Microcode adjustments for the software mitigations.

For more information on this set of vulnerabilities, check out https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7023736

Release notes :

---- updated platforms ------------------------------------ SNB-E/EN/EP C1/M0 6-2d-6/6d 0000061d->0000061f Xeon E3/E5, Core X SNB-E/EN/EP C2/M1 6-2d-7/6d 00000714->00000718 Xeon E3/E5, Core X

---- new platforms ---------------------------------------- VLV C0 6-37-8/02 00000838 Atom Z series VLV C0 6-37-8/0C 00000838 Celeron N2xxx, Pentium N35xx VLV D0 6-37-9/0F 0000090c Atom E38xx CHV C0 6-4c-3/01 00000368 Atom X series CHV D0 6-4c-4/01 00000411 Atom X series Readded what missing in last update: BDX-ML B0/M0/R0 6-4f-1/ef 0b00002e->00000036 Xeon E5/E7 v4; Core i7-69xx/68xx

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-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP1-2019-1910=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1111331

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12126/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12127/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12130/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11091/

https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7023736

http://www.nessus.org/u?c6c5ffa3

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 126914

File Name: suse_SU-2019-1910-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/22/2019

Updated: 5/27/2024

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: 6.0

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-2019-11091

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: 7/19/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/30/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2018-12130, CVE-2019-11091