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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : ovmf (SUSE-SU-2023:0036-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 169686

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:0036-1 advisory.

 - Insufficient input validation in MdeModulePkg in EDKII may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege, denial of service and/or information disclosure via physical access.
 (CVE-2019-11098)

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

Solution

Update the affected ovmf, ovmf-tools, qemu-ovmf-x86_64 and / or qemu-uefi-aarch64 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188371

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11098

http://www.nessus.org/u?94043079

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 169686

File Name: suse_SU-2023-0036-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/7/2023

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11098

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ovmf-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-ovmf-x86_64, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qemu-uefi-aarch64, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ovmf

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: 1/6/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/14/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11098

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:0036-1