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SUSE SLES10 Security Update : Xen (SUSE-SU-2015:1206-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 84634

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Xen was updated to fix two security issues :

CVE-2015-3209: Heap overflow in qemu pcnet controller allowing guest to host escape. (XSA-135, bsc#932770)

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

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 packages

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=932770

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=932996

http://www.nessus.org/u?2c6a4974

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3209/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4164/

http://www.nessus.org/u?48507adc

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 84634

File Name: suse_SU-2015-1206-1.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/9/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

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: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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: 7/8/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/15/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3209, CVE-2015-4164

BID: 75123, 75149