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EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.2 : qemu-kvm (EulerOS-SA-2020-1500)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 135662

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the qemu-kvm packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - Integer overflow in the emulated_apdu_from_guest function in usb/dev-smartcard-reader.c in Quick Emulator (Qemu), when built with the CCID Card device emulator support, allows local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large Application Protocol Data Units (APDU) unit.(CVE-2017-5898)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected qemu-kvm package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a66f0ccd

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 135662

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2020-1500.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 4/16/2020

Updated: 3/15/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-5898

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:qemu-gpu-specs, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:3.0.2.2, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:qemu-kvm-common, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:qemu-kvm-tools, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:qemu-seabios

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/16/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5898