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Oracle Linux 7 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2017-1856)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 102284

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-1856 advisory.

 - Resolves: bz#1451614 (CVE-2017-9524 qemu-kvm: segment fault when private user nmap qemu-nbd server [rhel-7.4])
 - Resolves: bz#1430060 (CVE-2016-9603 qemu-kvm: Qemu: cirrus: heap buffer overflow via vnc connection [rhel-7.4])
 - kvm-vnc-fix-memory-corruption-CVE-2015-5225.patch [bz#1377977]
 - Resolves: bz#1335751 (CVE-2016-4020 qemu-kvm: Qemu: i386: leakage of stack memory to guest in kvmvapic.c [rhel-7.4])
 - Resolves: bz#1419818 (CVE-2017-5898 qemu-kvm: Qemu: usb: integer overflow in emulated_apdu_from_guest [rhel-7.4])
 - Resolves: bz#1420492 (EMBARGOED CVE-2017-2620 qemu-kvm: Qemu: display: cirrus: potential arbitrary code execution via cirrus_bitblt_cputovideo [rhel-7.4])
 - kvm-cirrus-fix-oob-access-issue-CVE-2017-2615.patch [bz#1418233]
 - Resolves: bz#1418233 (CVE-2017-2615 qemu-kvm: Qemu: display: cirrus: oob access while doing bitblt copy backward mode [rhel-7.4])
 - Resolves: bz#1398218 (CVE-2016-2857 qemu-kvm: Qemu: net: out of bounds read in net_checksum_calculate() [rhel-7.4])

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2017-1856.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 102284

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-1856.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/9/2017

Updated: 10/23/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-4020

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-common, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-tools

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/8/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/25/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4020, CVE-2017-2633, CVE-2017-5898

RHSA: 2017:1856