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SUSE SLED10 / SLES10 Security Update : Xen (SUSE-SU-2012:1606-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 83569
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Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.Description
This update fixes the following security issues in xen :- CVE-2012-5513: XENMEM_exchange may overwrite hypervisor memory (XSA-29)
- CVE-2012-5515: Several memory hypercall operations allow invalid extent order values (XSA-31)
Also the following bugs have been fixed and upstream patches have been applied: 26134-x86-shadow-invlpg-check.patch
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected Xen packagesSee Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?3383192f
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5513.html
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5515.html
https://bugzilla.novell.com/789950
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 83569
File Name: suse_SU-2012-1606-1.nasl
Version: 2.3
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 5/20/2015
Updated: 1/19/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.5
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.9
Temporal Score: 6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-doc-ps, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-doc-pdf, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-kmp-vmipae, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-kmp-bigsmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools-ioemu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-kmp-vmi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-kmp-debug, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools-domu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-kmp-smp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-kmp-kdumppae, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-libs, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:10, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-kmp-kdump, 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: 12/4/2012
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2012-5513, CVE-2012-5515