The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:0846-1 advisory.
x86: speculative vulnerability in 32bit SYSCALL path Due to an oversight in the very original Spectre/Meltdown security work (XSA-254), one entrypath performs its speculation-safety actions too late.
In some configurations, there is an unprotected RET instruction which can be attacked with a variety of speculative attacks. (CVE-2022-42331)
x86 shadow plus log-dirty mode use-after-free In environments where host assisted address translation is necessary but Hardware Assisted Paging (HAP) is unavailable, Xen will run guests in so called shadow mode.
Shadow mode maintains a pool of memory used for both shadow page tables as well as auxiliary data structures. To migrate or snapshot guests, Xen additionally runs them in so called log-dirty mode. The data structures needed by the log-dirty tracking are part of aformentioned auxiliary data. In order to keep error handling efforts within reasonable bounds, for operations which may require memory allocations shadow mode logic ensures up front that enough memory is available for the worst case requirements.
Unfortunately, while page table memory is properly accounted for on the code path requiring the potential establishing of new shadows, demands by the log-dirty infrastructure were not taken into consideration. As a result, just established shadow page tables could be freed again immediately, while other code is still accessing them on the assumption that they would remain allocated. (CVE-2022-42332)
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The package checks in this plugin were extracted from
# SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2023:0846-1. The text itself
# is copyright (C) SUSE.
##
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(173199);
script_version("1.3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/07/14");
script_cve_id("CVE-2022-42331", "CVE-2022-42332");
script_xref(name:"SuSE", value:"SUSE-SU-2023:0846-1");
script_name(english:"SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2023:0846-1)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in
the SUSE-SU-2023:0846-1 advisory.
- x86: speculative vulnerability in 32bit SYSCALL path Due to an oversight in the very original
Spectre/Meltdown security work (XSA-254), one entrypath performs its speculation-safety actions too late.
In some configurations, there is an unprotected RET instruction which can be attacked with a variety of
speculative attacks. (CVE-2022-42331)
- x86 shadow plus log-dirty mode use-after-free In environments where host assisted address translation is
necessary but Hardware Assisted Paging (HAP) is unavailable, Xen will run guests in so called shadow mode.
Shadow mode maintains a pool of memory used for both shadow page tables as well as auxiliary data
structures. To migrate or snapshot guests, Xen additionally runs them in so called log-dirty mode. The
data structures needed by the log-dirty tracking are part of aformentioned auxiliary data. In order to
keep error handling efforts within reasonable bounds, for operations which may require memory allocations
shadow mode logic ensures up front that enough memory is available for the worst case requirements.
Unfortunately, while page table memory is properly accounted for on the code path requiring the potential
establishing of new shadows, demands by the log-dirty infrastructure were not taken into consideration. As
a result, just established shadow page tables could be freed again immediately, while other code is still
accessing them on the assumption that they would remain allocated. (CVE-2022-42332)
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1209017");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1209019");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1209188");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-42331");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-42332");
# https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2023-March/014125.html
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?95683c09");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2022-42332");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2023/03/21");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/03/21");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/03/22");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-doc-html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-libs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-libs-32bit");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:xen-tools-domU");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include('rpm.inc');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(os_release) || os_release !~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE");
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^(SLE(S|D)\d+)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'SUSE');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(SLES12)$", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'SUSE SLES12', 'SUSE (' + os_ver + ')');
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'SUSE (' + os_ver + ')', cpu);
var service_pack = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/patchlevel");
if (isnull(service_pack)) service_pack = "0";
if (os_ver == "SLES12" && (! preg(pattern:"^(2)$", string:service_pack))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES12 SP2", os_ver + " SP" + service_pack);
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'xen-4.7.6_32-43.104.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-bcl-release-12.2']},
{'reference':'xen-doc-html-4.7.6_32-43.104.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-bcl-release-12.2']},
{'reference':'xen-libs-32bit-4.7.6_32-43.104.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-bcl-release-12.2']},
{'reference':'xen-libs-4.7.6_32-43.104.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-bcl-release-12.2']},
{'reference':'xen-tools-4.7.6_32-43.104.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-bcl-release-12.2']},
{'reference':'xen-tools-domU-4.7.6_32-43.104.1', 'sp':'2', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'SLES12', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['sles-bcl-release-12.2']}
];
var ltss_caveat_required = FALSE;
var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
var reference = NULL;
var _release = NULL;
var sp = NULL;
var _cpu = NULL;
var exists_check = NULL;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
if (reference && _release) {
if (exists_check) {
var check_flag = 0;
foreach var check (exists_check) {
if (!rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:check)) continue;
check_flag++;
}
if (!check_flag) continue;
}
if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'xen / xen-doc-html / xen-libs / xen-libs-32bit / xen-tools / etc');
}