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RHEL 7 : qemu-kvm-ma (RHSA-2018:2762)

high Nessus Plugin ID 117775

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for qemu-kvm-ma.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2762 advisory.

 Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm-ma packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM on the IBM z Systems, IBM Power, and 64-bit ARM architectures.

 Security Fix(es):

 * QEMU: slirp: heap buffer overflow while reassembling fragmented datagrams (CVE-2018-11806)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

 Red Hat would like to thank Jskz - Zero Day Initiative (trendmicro.com) for reporting this issue.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL qemu-kvm-ma package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:2762.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b51e8d3e

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2762

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1586245

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 117775

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-2762.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/27/2018

Updated: 11/5/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-11806

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-ma, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-common-ma, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-tools-ma, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-img-ma

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/25/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/13/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-11806

CWE: 122

RHSA: 2018:2762