Detections
Analytics
SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2015:0701-1)
high Nessus Plugin ID 83714
Language:
Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.Description
Xen was updated 4.4.2_01 to address three security issues and functional bugs.The following vulnerabilities were fixed :
- Long latency MMIO mapping operations are not preemptible (XSA-125, CVE-2015-2752, bnc#922705)
- Unmediated PCI command register access in qemu (XSA-126, CVE-2015-2756, bnc#922706)
- Certain domctl operations may be abused to lock up the host (XSA-127, CVE-2015-2751, bnc#922709)
The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.
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
To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2015-162=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-162=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-162=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.
See Also
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=921842
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922705
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922706
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922709
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=923758
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2751/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2752/
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 83714
File Name: suse_SU-2015-0701-1.nasl
Version: 2.11
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 5/20/2015
Updated: 1/6/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.1
Temporal Score: 5.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-doc-html, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-kmp-default-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools-domu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools-domu-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12
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: 4/1/2015
Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/1/2015