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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:1935-1) (SACK Slowness)

high Nessus Plugin ID 126982

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-60_64_115 fixes one issue.

The following security issue was fixed :

This update contains a regression fix for CVE-2019-11478 (bsc#1140747).

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 Server for SAP 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP3-2019-1953=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2019-1935=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP1-2019-1927=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-1953=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2019-1935=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2019-1927=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Live-Patching-12-SP4-2019-1941=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1140747

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11478/

http://www.nessus.org/u?876ee3d0

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 126982

File Name: suse_SU-2019-1935-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/24/2019

Updated: 5/8/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11478

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kgraft-patch-3_12_74-60_64_115-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kgraft-patch-4_4_180-94_97-default-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kgraft-patch-3_12_74-60_64_115-xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kgraft-patch-4_4_121-92_114-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kgraft-patch-4_4_180-94_97-default

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/23/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/19/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11478