Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This update for spectre-meltdown-checker fixes the following issues :
- feat: implement TAA detection (CVE-2019-11135 bsc#1139073)
- feat: implement MCEPSC / iTLB Multihit detection (CVE-2018-12207 bsc#1117665)
- feat: taa: add TSX_CTRL MSR detection in hardware info
- feat: fwdb: use both Intel GitHub repo and MCEdb to build our firmware version database
- feat: use --live with --kernel/--config/--map to override file detection in live mode
- enh: rework the vuln logic of MDS with --paranoid (fixes #307)
- enh: explain that Enhanced IBRS is better for performance than classic IBRS
- enh: kernel: autodetect customized arch kernels from cmdline
- enh: kernel decompression: better tolerance against missing tools
- enh: mock: implement reading from /proc/cmdline
- fix: variant3a: Silvermont CPUs are not vulnerable to variant 3a
- fix: lockdown: detect Red Hat locked down kernels (impacts MSR writes)
- fix: lockdown: detect locked down mode in vanilla 5.4+ kernels
- fix: sgx: on locked down kernels, fallback to CPUID bit for detection
- fix: fwdb: builtin version takes precedence if the local cached version is older
- fix: pteinv: don't check kernel image if not available
- fix: silence useless error from grep (fixes #322)
- fix: msr: fix msr module detection under Ubuntu 19.10 (fixes #316)
- fix: mocking value for read_msr
- chore: rename mcedb cmdline parameters to fwdb, and change db version scheme
- chore: fwdb: update to v130.20191104+i20191027
- chore: add GitHub check workflow
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-SP1-2019-3348=1
Plugin Details
File Name: suse_SU-2019-3348-1.nasl
Agent: unix
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:spectre-meltdown-checker, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15
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: 12/19/2019
Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2019