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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2024:0265-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 189886

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0265-1 advisory.

 - The vulnerability allows a malicious guest to gain access to sensitive information. The vulnerability exists due to an error in phantom functions implementation for PCI devices. Under certain circumstances a malicious guest assigned a PCI device with phantom functions may be able to access memory from a previous owner of the device. (CVE-2023-46839)

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1218851

http://www.nessus.org/u?d9735327

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-46839

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 189886

File Name: suse_SU-2024-0265-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/1/2024

Updated: 7/19/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, 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: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-46839

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.1

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/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:xen-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools-domu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-libs-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-doc-html

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: 1/30/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/30/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-46839

IAVB: 2023-B-0090-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:0265-1