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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : kernel-firmware (SUSE-SU-2024:2943-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 205748

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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-2024:2943-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2023-31315: Fixed validation in a model specific register (MSR) that lead to modification of SMM configuration by malicious program with ring0 access (bsc#1229069)

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

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 kernel-firmware, kernel-firmware-brcm and / or ucode-amd packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1229069

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2024-August/036481.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-31315

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 205748

File Name: suse_SU-2024-2943-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/17/2024

Updated: 8/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-31315

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-firmware, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:kernel-firmware-brcm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ucode-amd, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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: 8/16/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-31315

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:2943-1