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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2017:0983-1)
high Nessus Plugin ID 99302
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Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.Description
This update for xen to version 4.7.2 fixes the following issues: These security issues were fixed :- CVE-2017-7228: Broken check in memory_exchange() permited PV guest breakout (bsc#1030442).
- XSA-206: Unprivileged guests issuing writes to xenstore were able to stall progress of the control domain or driver domain, possibly leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) of the entire host (bsc#1030144).
- CVE-2017-6505: The ohci_service_ed_list function in hw/usb/hcd-ohci.c allowed local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via vectors involving the number of link endpoint list descriptors (bsc#1028235).
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 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP2-2017-572=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2017-572=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2017-572=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.
See Also
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1014136
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015348
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1022555
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1026236
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1027519
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1028235
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1029128
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1029827
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1030144
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1030442
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-6505/
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 99302
File Name: suse_SU-2017-0983-1.nasl
Version: 3.14
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 4/12/2017
Updated: 6/3/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: High
Score: 7.3
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.2
Temporal Score: 5.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 8.2
Temporal Score: 7.4
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools-domu-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools-domu, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-libs, 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 Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2017
Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/15/2017
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2017-6505, CVE-2017-7228
IAVB: 2017-B-0042-S