SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2015:1299-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 85073

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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.

These security issues were fixed :

- CVE-2015-3259: xl command line config handling stack overflow (bsc#935634, XSA-137).

- CVE-2015-5154: Host code execution via IDE subsystem CD-ROM (bsc#938344).

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 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp4-xen-12007=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch slessp4-xen-12007=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp4-xen-12007=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-xen-12007=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 85073

File Name: suse_SU-2015-1299-1.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/29/2015

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: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-kmp-default, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools-domu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-kmp-pae, 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: 7/27/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/16/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3259, CVE-2015-5154

BID: 75573

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