openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2015-435)

high Nessus Plugin ID 84334

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Xen was updated to fix eight vulnerabilities.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed :

- CVE-2015-2751: Certain domctl operations may be abused to lock up the host (XSA-127 boo#922709)

- CVE-2015-4103: Potential unintended writes to host MSI message data field via qemu (XSA-128) (boo#931625)

- CVE-2015-4104: PCI MSI mask bits inadvertently exposed to guests (XSA-129) (boo#931626)

- CVE-2015-4105: Guest triggerable qemu MSI-X pass-through error messages (XSA-130) (boo#931627)

- CVE-2015-4106: Unmediated PCI register access in qemu (XSA-131) (boo#931628)

- CVE-2015-4163: GNTTABOP_swap_grant_ref operation misbehavior (XSA-134) (boo#932790)

- CVE-2015-3209: heap overflow in qemu pcnet controller allowing guest to host escape (XSA-135) (boo#932770)

- CVE-2015-4164: DoS through iret hypercall handler (XSA-136) (boo#932996)

Solution

Update the affected xen packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 84334

File Name: openSUSE-2015-435.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/23/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous 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: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-libs-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-kmp-default-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-tools-domu-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-xend-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-kmp-pae-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-kmp-pae, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-xend-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-tools-domu, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-kmp-default, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-kmp-desktop-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-libs-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-doc-html, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:xen-kmp-desktop

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/14/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2751, CVE-2015-3209, CVE-2015-4103, CVE-2015-4104, CVE-2015-4105, CVE-2015-4106, CVE-2015-4163, CVE-2015-4164

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