Debian DSA-4137-1 : libvirt - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 108346

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Libvirt, a virtualisation abstraction library :

- CVE-2018-1064 Daniel Berrange discovered that the QEMU guest agent performed insufficient validation of incoming data, which allows a privileged user in the guest to exhaust resources on the virtualisation host, resulting in denial of service.

- CVE-2018-5748 Daniel Berrange and Peter Krempa discovered that the QEMU monitor was susceptible to denial of service by memory exhaustion. This was already fixed in Debian stretch and only affects Debian jessie.

- CVE-2018-6764 Pedro Sampaio discovered that LXC containers detected the hostname insecurely. This only affects Debian stretch.

Solution

Upgrade the libvirt packages.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.9-9+deb8u5.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 3.0.0-4+deb9u3.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 108346

File Name: debian_DSA-4137.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/15/2018

Updated: 1/30/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-6764

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libvirt, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/14/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1064, CVE-2018-5748, CVE-2018-6764

DSA: 4137

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