SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Xen (SAT Patch Number 7018)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 64238

Synopsis

The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

XEN was updated to fix various bugs and security issues :

The following security issues have been fixed :

- xen: Domain builder Out-of-memory due to malicious kernel/ramdisk (XSA 25). (CVE-2012-4544)

- XEN / qemu: guest administrator can access qemu monitor console (XSA-19). (CVE-2012-4411)

- xen: Timer overflow DoS vulnerability (XSA 20).
(CVE-2012-4535)

- xen: pirq range check DoS vulnerability (XSA 21).
(CVE-2012-4536)

- xen: Memory mapping failure DoS vulnerability (XSA 22).
(CVE-2012-4537)

- xen: Unhooking empty PAE entries DoS vulnerability (XSA 23). (CVE-2012-4538)

- xen: Grant table hypercall infinite loop DoS vulnerability (XSA 24). (CVE-2012-4539)

- xen: multiple TMEM hypercall vulnerabilities (XSA-15) Also the following bugs have been fixed and upstream patches have been applied:. (CVE-2012-3497)

- L3: Xen BUG at io_apic.c:129 26102-x86-IOAPIC-legacy-not-first.patch. (bnc#784087)

- Upstream patches merged:
26054-x86-AMD-perf-ctr-init.patch 26055-x86-oprof-hvm-mode.patch 26056-page-alloc-flush-filter.patch 26061-x86-oprof-counter-range.patch 26062-ACPI-ERST-move-data.patch 26063-x86-HPET-affinity-lock.patch 26093-HVM-PoD-grant-mem-type.patch 25931-x86-domctl-iomem-mapping-checks.patch 25952-x86-MMIO-remap-permissions.patch 25808-domain_create-return-value.patch 25814-x86_64-set-debugreg-guest.patch 25815-x86-PoD-no-bug-in-non-translated.patch 25816-x86-hvm-map-pirq-range-check.patch 25833-32on64-bogus-pt_base-adjust.patch 25834-x86-S3-MSI-resume.patch 25835-adjust-rcu-lock-domain.patch 25836-VT-d-S3-MSI-resume.patch 25850-tmem-xsa-15-1.patch 25851-tmem-xsa-15-2.patch 25852-tmem-xsa-15-3.patch 25853-tmem-xsa-15-4.patch 25854-tmem-xsa-15-5.patch 25855-tmem-xsa-15-6.patch 25856-tmem-xsa-15-7.patch 25857-tmem-xsa-15-8.patch 25858-tmem-xsa-15-9.patch 25859-tmem-missing-break.patch 25860-tmem-cleanup.patch 25883-pt-MSI-cleanup.patch 25927-x86-domctl-ioport-mapping-range.patch 25929-tmem-restore-pool-version.patch

- first XEN-PV VM fails to spawn xend: Increase wait time for disk to appear in host bootloader Modified existing xen-domUloader.diff. (bnc#778105)

25752-ACPI-pm-op-valid-cpu.patch 25754-x86-PoD-early-access.patch 25755-x86-PoD-types.patch 25756-x86-MMIO-max-mapped-pfn.patch

Solution

Apply SAT patch number 7018.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=777890

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=778105

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=779212

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784087

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786516

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786517

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786518

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786519

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786520

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=787163

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3497.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4411.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4535.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4536.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4537.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4538.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4539.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4544.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 64238

File Name: suse_11_xen-201211-121102.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/25/2013

Updated: 1/19/2021

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:xen-tools-domu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:xen-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:xen-tools, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:xen-libs-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:xen-doc-html, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:xen-doc-pdf, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:xen-kmp-pae, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:xen-kmp-trace, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:xen-kmp-default

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 11/2/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3497, CVE-2012-4411, CVE-2012-4535, CVE-2012-4536, CVE-2012-4537, CVE-2012-4538, CVE-2012-4539, CVE-2012-4544