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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2025:0142-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 214303

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0142-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-53241: Xen hypercall page unsafe against speculative attacks (bsc#1234282).

 Bug fixes:

 - Update to Xen 4.18.4 security bug fix release (bsc#1027519)
 * x86: Prefer ACPI reboot over UEFI ResetSystem() run time service call
 * No other changes mentioned in upstream changelog, sources, or webpage

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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1027519

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1234282

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-53241

http://www.nessus.org/u?716d84f8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 214303

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0142-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/17/2025

Updated: 1/17/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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-2024-53241

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: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools-domu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools-xendomains-wait-disk

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: 1/16/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-53241

IAVB: 2024-B-0200

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0142-1