SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2023:3234-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 179577

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3234-1 advisory.

- A potential stack overflow via infinite loop issue was found in various NIC emulators of QEMU in versions up to and including 5.2.0. The issue occurs in loopback mode of a NIC wherein reentrant DMA checks get bypassed. A guest user/process may use this flaw to consume CPU cycles or crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in DoS scenario. (CVE-2021-3416) (CVE-2023-2861)

- A design error vulnerability exists in Qemu. The error occurs due to the incorrect cleanup of the vdpa/vhost-net structures if peer nic is present. (CVE-2023-3301)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 179577

File Name: suse_SU-2023-3234-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/9/2023

Updated: 12/12/2023

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: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-2861

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: 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-hw-usb-host, 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, 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-accel-tcg-x86, 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-slof, 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

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: 8/8/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/17/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-2861, CVE-2023-3255, CVE-2023-3301

IAVB: 2023-B-0058-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:3234-1

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