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RHEL 6 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2020:4055)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 141034

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4055 advisory.

 Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM.

 Security Fix(es):

 * QEMU: usb: out-of-bounds r/w access issue while processing usb packets (CVE-2020-14364)

 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.

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 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:4055.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?20888fe9

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4055

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1869201

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 141034

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-4055.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14364

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-img, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:6.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-tools

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: 9/29/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/24/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14364

CWE: 787

IAVB: 2020-B-0063-S

RHSA: 2020:4055