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SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2018:1699-2)

🗓️ 19 Apr 2021 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AGType 
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SUSE-SU-2018:1699-2 advisory for 'xen', fixes security issues including CVE-2018-3639 Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) and improved Spectre v2 mitigations

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.4.2018.1699.2");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-5715", "CVE-2017-5753", "CVE-2017-5754", "CVE-2018-3639");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2021-04-19 00:00:00 +0000 (Mon, 19 Apr 2021)");
  script_version("2025-08-15T15:42:25+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-08-15 15:42:25 +0000 (Fri, 15 Aug 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.7");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2018-01-05 20:47:46 +0000 (Fri, 05 Jan 2018)");

  script_name("SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2018:1699-2)");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("SuSE Local Security Checks");
  script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/suse_sles", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=(SLES12\.0SP2)");

  script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"SUSE-SU-2018:1699-2");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2018/suse-su-20181699-2.html");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1027519");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1074562");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1086039");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1092631");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2018-October/004717.html");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'xen' package(s) announced via the SUSE-SU-2018:1699-2 advisory.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"This update for xen fixes several issues.

This feature was added:

- Added support for qemu monitor command

These security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2018-3639: Prevent attackers with local user access from extracting information via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Store Bypass (SSB), Variant 4 (bsc#1092631).
- CVE-2017-5753,CVE-2017-5715,CVE-2017-5754: Improved Spectre v2 mitigations (bsc#1074562).

This non-security issue was fixed:

- bsc#1086039 - Dom0 does not represent DomU cpu flags");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'xen' package(s) on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");

  exit(0);
}

include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");

release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
  exit(0);

res = "";
report = "";

if(release == "SLES12.0SP2") {

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"xen", rpm:"xen~4.7.5_04~43.33.1", rls:"SLES12.0SP2"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"xen-doc-html", rpm:"xen-doc-html~4.7.5_04~43.33.1", rls:"SLES12.0SP2"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"xen-libs-32bit", rpm:"xen-libs-32bit~4.7.5_04~43.33.1", rls:"SLES12.0SP2"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"xen-libs", rpm:"xen-libs~4.7.5_04~43.33.1", rls:"SLES12.0SP2"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"xen-tools", rpm:"xen-tools~4.7.5_04~43.33.1", rls:"SLES12.0SP2"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"xen-tools-domU", rpm:"xen-tools-domU~4.7.5_04~43.33.1", rls:"SLES12.0SP2"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(report != "") {
    security_message(data:report);
  } else if(__pkg_match) {
    exit(99);
  }
  exit(0);
}

exit(0);

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