The version of qemu installed on the remote host is prior to 3.1.0-8. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1671 advisory.

    A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in the iSCSI support of QEMU. This flaw could lead to an out-of-     bounds read access and possible information disclosure from the QEMU process memory to a malicious guest.
    The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality. (CVE-2020-11947)

    An infinite loop flaw was found in the e1000e NIC emulation code of QEMU. This issue occurs in the     e1000e_write_packet_to_guest() routine while processing bogus RX descriptor data transmitted by the guest.
    This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of     service. (CVE-2020-25707)

    A reachable assertion vulnerability was found in the USB EHCI emulation code of QEMU. This issue occurs     while processing USB requests due to missed handling of DMA memory map failure. This flaw allows a     malicious privileged user within the guest to send bogus USB requests and crash the QEMU process on the     host, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system     availability. (CVE-2020-25723)

    A flaw was found in the memory management API of QEMU during the initialization of a memory region cache.
    This issue could lead to an out-of-bounds write access to the MSI-X table while performing MMIO     operations. A guest user may abuse this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial     of service. (CVE-2020-27821)

    An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the SLiRP user networking implementation of QEMU. It could     occur while processing ARP/NCSI packets, if the packet length was shorter than required to accommodate     respective protocol headers and payload. A privileged guest user may use this flaw to potentially leak     host information bytes. (CVE-2020-29129)

    An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the SLiRP user networking implementation of QEMU. It could     occur while processing ARP/NCSI packets, if the packet length was shorter than required to accommodate     respective protocol headers and payload. A privileged guest user may use this flaw to potentially leak     host information bytes. (CVE-2020-29130)

    An out-of-bounds read-access flaw was found in the ATAPI Emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while     processing the ATAPI read command if the logical block address(LBA) is set to an invalid value. A guest     user may use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in a denial of service.
    (CVE-2020-29443)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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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Amazon Linux 2 : qemu (ALAS-2021-1671)

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Version 1.5 Dec 12, 2024, 9:55 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202412120955
Version 1.4 Dec 12, 2023, 3:08 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202312121508
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