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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2021:1942-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 150736

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:1942-1 advisory.

 - Switch method of splitting off hw-s390x-virtio-gpu-ccw.so as a module to what was accepted upstream (bsc#1181103)
 - Fix OOB access in sdhci interface (CVE-2020-17380, bsc#1175144, CVE-2020-25085, bsc#1176681, CVE-2021-3409, bsc#1182282)
 - Fix potential privilege escalation in virtiofsd tool (CVE-2021-20263, bsc#1183373)
 - Fix OOB access (stack overflow) in rtl8139 NIC emulation (CVE-2021-3416, bsc#1182968)
 - Fix heap overflow in MSIx emulation (CVE-2020-27821, bsc#1179686)
 - Fix package scripts to not use hard coded paths for temporary working directories and log files (bsc#1182425)
 - QEMU BIOS fails to read stage2 loader on s390x (bsc#1186290)
 - For the record, these issues are fixed in this package already.
 Most are alternate references to previously mentioned issues:
 (CVE-2019-15890, bsc#1149813, CVE-2020-8608, bsc#1163019, CVE-2020-14364, bsc#1175534, CVE-2020-25707, bsc#1178683, CVE-2020-25723, bsc#1178935, CVE-2020-29130, bsc#1179477, CVE-2020-29129, bsc#1179484, CVE-2021-3419, bsc#1182975)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1149813

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1163019

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1175144

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1175534

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1176681

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178683

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178935

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179477

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179484

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179686

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1181103

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1182282

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1182425

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1182968

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1182975

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1183373

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186290

http://www.nessus.org/u?1b594ec1

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-15890

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8608

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14364

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-17380

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25085

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25723

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27821

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-29129

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-29130

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3409

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3416

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20263

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 150736

File Name: suse_SU-2021-1942-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/12/2021

Updated: 9/24/2025

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: 4.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8608

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-17380

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-hw-usb-redirect, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-ssh, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-sgabios, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-hw-display-virtio-gpu-pci, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-audio-spice, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-audio-alsa, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ppc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-hw-display-qxl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-hw-display-virtio-vga, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-chardev-baum, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ksm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ui-spice-core, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-chardev-spice, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-hw-s390x-virtio-gpu-ccw, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-s390x, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-hw-display-virtio-gpu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-seabios, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ui-curses, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ipxe, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-skiboot, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-vgabios, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-arm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-rbd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-audio-pa, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-x86, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ui-opengl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ui-gtk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ui-spice-app, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-block-iscsi

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: 6/10/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/6/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-15890, CVE-2020-14364, CVE-2020-17380, CVE-2020-25085, CVE-2020-25723, CVE-2020-27821, CVE-2020-29129, CVE-2020-29130, CVE-2020-8608, CVE-2021-20263, CVE-2021-3409, CVE-2021-3416

IAVB: 2020-B-0063-S, 2020-B-0075-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:1942-1