SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel-firmware (SUSE-SU-2022:1846-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 161519

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:1846-1 advisory.

- Failure to flush the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) of the I/O memory management unit (IOMMU) may lead an IO device to write to memory it should not be able to access, resulting in a potential loss of integrity. (CVE-2021-26312, CVE-2021-26348)

- A bug in AMD CPU's core logic may allow for an attacker, using specific code from an unprivileged VM, to trigger a CPU core hang resulting in a potential denial of service. AMD believes the specific code includes a specific x86 instruction sequence that would not be generated by compilers. (CVE-2021-26339)

- In SEV guest VMs, the CPU may fail to flush the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) following a particular sequence of operations that includes creation of a new virtual machine control block (VMCB). The failure to flush the TLB may cause the microcode to use stale TLB translations which may allow for disclosure of SEV guest memory contents. Users of SEV-ES/SEV-SNP guest VMs are not impacted by this vulnerability.
(CVE-2021-26342)

- Failure to validate the integer operand in ASP (AMD Secure Processor) bootloader may allow an attacker to introduce an integer overflow in the L2 directory table in SPI flash resulting in a potential denial of service. (CVE-2021-26347)

- Failure to assign a new report ID to an imported guest may potentially result in an SEV-SNP guest VM being tricked into trusting a dishonest Migration Agent (MA). (CVE-2021-26349)

- A TOCTOU race condition in SMU may allow for the caller to obtain and manipulate the address of a message port register which may result in a potential denial of service. (CVE-2021-26350)

- Insufficient bounds checking in an SMU mailbox register could allow an attacker to potentially read outside of the SRAM address range which could result in an exception handling leading to a potential denial of service. (CVE-2021-26364)

- Insufficient bound checks related to PCIE in the System Management Unit (SMU) may result in access to an invalid address space that could result in denial of service. (CVE-2021-26372)

- Insufficient bound checks in the System Management Unit (SMU) may result in a system voltage malfunction that could result in denial of resources and/or possibly denial of service. (CVE-2021-26373)

- Insufficient General Purpose IO (GPIO) bounds check in System Management Unit (SMU) may result in access/updates from/to invalid address space that could result in denial of service. (CVE-2021-26375)

- Insufficient checks in System Management Unit (SMU) FeatureConfig may result in reenabling features potentially resulting in denial of resources and/or denial of service. (CVE-2021-26376)

- Insufficient bound checks in the System Management Unit (SMU) may result in access to an invalid address space that could result in denial of service. (CVE-2021-26378)

- Improper validation of the BIOS directory may allow for searches to read beyond the directory table copy in RAM, exposing out of bounds memory contents, resulting in a potential denial of service.
(CVE-2021-26388)

- An attacker with access to a malicious hypervisor may be able to infer data values used in a SEV guest on AMD CPUs by monitoring ciphertext values over time. (CVE-2021-46744)

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 kernel-firmware and / or ucode-amd packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 161519

File Name: suse_SU-2022-1846-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/26/2022

Updated: 7/14/2023

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-46744

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-firmware, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ucode-amd

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: 5/25/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/16/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-26312, CVE-2021-26339, CVE-2021-26342, CVE-2021-26347, CVE-2021-26348, CVE-2021-26349, CVE-2021-26350, CVE-2021-26364, CVE-2021-26372, CVE-2021-26373, CVE-2021-26375, CVE-2021-26376, CVE-2021-26378, CVE-2021-26388, CVE-2021-46744

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:1846-1

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