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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2024:4073-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 212530

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:4073-1 advisory.

 Security issues fixed:

 - CVE-2024-45818: xen: Deadlock in x86 HVM standard VGA handling (bsc#1232622)
 - CVE-2024-45819: xen: libxl leaks data to PVH guests via ACPI tables (bsc#1232624)
 - CVE-2024-45817: xen: x86: Deadlock in vlapic_error() (bsc#1230366)

 Non-security issue fixed:

 - Removed usage of net-tools-deprecated from supportconfig plugin (bsc#1232542)

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

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1230366

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45817

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1232542

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1232622

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1232624

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45818

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45819

http://www.nessus.org/u?32f6dedf

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 212530

File Name: suse_SU-2024-4073-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/12/2024

Updated: 12/12/2024

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-45819

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools-xendomains-wait-disk, 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, 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: 11/27/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/18/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-45817, CVE-2024-45818, CVE-2024-45819

IAVB: 2024-B-0095

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:4073-1