openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2021-514)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 148384

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for xen fixes the following issues :

- CVE-2021-3308: VUL-0: xen: IRQ vector leak on x86 (bsc#1181254, XSA-360)

- CVE-2021-28687: HVM soft-reset crashes toolstack (bsc#1183072, XSA-368)

- L3: conring size for XEN HV's with huge memory to small.
Inital Xen logs cut (bsc#1177204)

- L3: XEN domU crashed on resume when using the xl unpause command (bsc#1182576)

- L3: xen: no needsreboot flag set (bsc#1180690)

- kdump of HVM fails, soft-reset not handled by libxl (bsc#1179148)

- openQA job causes libvirtd to dump core when running kdump inside domain (bsc#1181989)

- Upstream bug fixes (bsc#1027519)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP2:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected xen packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 148384

File Name: openSUSE-2021-514.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/8/2021

Updated: 1/26/2022

Supported Sensors: 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: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3308

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-libs-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-doc-html, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-tools-domu-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-tools-xendomains-wait-disk, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-libs-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-tools-domu

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/7/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/26/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-28687, CVE-2021-3308

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