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Fedora 21 : qemu-2.1.3-7.fc21 (2015-8249) (Venom)

high Nessus Plugin ID 83506

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- CVE-2015-3456: (VENOM) fdc: out-of-bounds fifo buffer memory access (bz #1221152)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected qemu package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218611

http://www.nessus.org/u?2eaac898

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 83506

File Name: fedora_2015-8249.nasl

Version: 2.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/18/2015

Updated: 9/28/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:qemu, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/15/2015

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3456

FEDORA: 2015-8249

IAVA: 2015-A-0115-S