The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2125 advisory.

    OVMF (Open Virtual Machine Firmware) is a project to enable UEFI support for Virtual Machines. This     package contains a sample 64-bit UEFI firmware for QEMU and KVM.

    Security Fix(es):

    * edk2: Privilege escalation via processing of malformed files in TianoCompress.c (CVE-2017-5731)

    * edk2: Privilege escalation via processing of malformed files in BaseUefiDecompressLib.c (CVE-2017-5732)

    * edk2: Privilege escalation via heap-based buffer overflow in MakeTable() function (CVE-2017-5733)

    * edk2: Privilege escalation via stack-based buffer overflow in MakeTable() function (CVE-2017-5734)

    * edk2: Privilege escalation via heap-based buffer overflow in Decode() function (CVE-2017-5735)

    * edk2: Logic error in MdeModulePkg in EDK II firmware allows for privilege escalation by authenticated     users (CVE-2018-3613)

    * openssl: Side-channel vulnerability on SMT/Hyper-Threading architectures (PortSmash) (CVE-2018-5407)

    * edk2: Stack buffer overflow with corrupted BMP (CVE-2018-12181)

    * edk2: buffer overflows in PartitionDxe and UdfDxe with long file names and invalid UDF media     (CVE-2019-0160)

    * edk2: stack overflow in XHCI causing denial of service (CVE-2019-0161)

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

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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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RHEL 7 : ovmf (RHSA-2019:2125)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 127676

Version 1.8

Version 1.7

Version 1.6

Version 1.8 Nov 8, 2024, 2:25 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411080225
Version 1.7 Nov 5, 2024, 12:50 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411051250
Version 1.6 Apr 28, 2024, 3:17 AM CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2019-0160") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404280317