SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2015:1479-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 85791

Synopsis

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

Description

xen was updated to fix the following security issues :

- CVE-2015-5165: QEMU leak of uninitialized heap memory in rtl8139 device model (bsc#939712, XSA-140)

- CVE-2015-5166: Use after free in QEMU/Xen block unplug protocol (bsc#939709, XSA-139)

- CVE-2015-2751: Certain domctl operations could have be used to lock up the host (bsc#922709, XSA-127)

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

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

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

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-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp3-xen-12066=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-xen-12066=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp3-xen-12066=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-xen-12066=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922709

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=935634

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=938344

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=939709

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=939712

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2751/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3259/

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

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5154/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5165/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5166/

http://www.nessus.org/u?9123db70

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 85791

File Name: suse_SU-2015-1479-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/4/2015

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-doc-pdf, 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: 8/11/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/1/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2751, CVE-2015-3259, CVE-2015-4164, CVE-2015-5154, CVE-2015-5165, CVE-2015-5166

BID: 73443, 75149, 75573