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.

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

medium Nessus Plugin ID 102284

Version 3.7