openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2015-729)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 86863

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

xen was updated to fix 13 security issues.

These security issues were fixed :

- CVE-2015-7972: Populate-on-demand balloon size inaccuracy can crash guests (bsc#951845).

- CVE-2015-7969: Leak of main per-domain vcpu pointer array (DoS) (bsc#950703).

- CVE-2015-7969: Leak of per-domain profiling-related vcpu pointer array (DoS) (bsc#950705).

- CVE-2015-7971: Some pmu and profiling hypercalls log without rate limiting (bsc#950706).

- CVE-2015-4037: Insecure temporary file use in /net/slirp.c (bsc#932267).

- CVE-2014-0222: Validate L2 table size to avoid integer overflows (bsc#877642).

- CVE-2015-7835: Uncontrolled creation of large page mappings by PV guests (bsc#950367).

- CVE-2015-7311: libxl fails to honour readonly flag on disks with qemu-xen (bsc#947165).

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

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

- CVE-2015-5239: Integer overflow in vnc_client_read() and protocol_client_msg() (bsc#944463).

- CVE-2015-6815: e1000: infinite loop issue (bsc#944697).

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

This non-security issues was fixed :

- bsc#941074: VmError: Device 51728 (vbd) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not working.

Solution

Update the affected xen packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 86863

File Name: openSUSE-2015-729.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/13/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/30/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/4/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0222, CVE-2015-4037, CVE-2015-5154, CVE-2015-5165, CVE-2015-5166, CVE-2015-5239, CVE-2015-6815, CVE-2015-7311, CVE-2015-7835, CVE-2015-7969, CVE-2015-7971, CVE-2015-7972

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