The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:3635-1 advisory.

  - A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the megasas-gen2 SCSI host bus adapter emulation of QEMU in     versions before and including 6.0. This issue occurs in the megasas_command_cancelled() callback function     while dropping a SCSI request. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the     host, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system     availability. (CVE-2020-35503)

  - A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the SCSI emulation support of QEMU in versions before 6.0.0.
    This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of     service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2020-35504)

  - A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the am53c974 SCSI host bus adapter emulation of QEMU in     versions before 6.0.0. This issue occurs while handling the 'Information Transfer' command. This flaw     allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.
    The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2020-35505)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the am53c974 SCSI host bus adapter emulation of QEMU in     versions before 6.0.0 during the handling of the 'Information Transfer' command (CMD_TI). This flaw allows     a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service or     potential code execution with the privileges of the QEMU process. (CVE-2020-35506)

  - A stack overflow via an infinite recursion vulnerability was found in the eepro100 i8255x device emulator     of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing controller commands due to a DMA reentry issue. This flaw     allows a guest user or process to consume CPU cycles or crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a     denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2021-20255)

  - A flaw was found in the USB redirector device (usb-redir) of QEMU. Small USB packets are combined into a     single, large transfer request, to reduce the overhead and improve performance. The combined size of the     bulk transfer is used to dynamically allocate a variable length array (VLA) on the stack without proper     validation. Since the total size is not bounded, a malicious guest could use this flaw to influence the     array length and cause the QEMU process to perform an excessive allocation on the stack, resulting in a     denial of service. (CVE-2021-3527)

  - A flaw was found in the USB redirector device emulation of QEMU in versions prior to 6.1.0-rc2. It occurs     when dropping packets during a bulk transfer from a SPICE client due to the packet queue being full. A     malicious SPICE client could use this flaw to make QEMU call free() with faked heap chunk metadata,     resulting in a crash of QEMU or potential code execution with the privileges of the QEMU process on the     host. (CVE-2021-3682)

  - An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the UAS (USB Attached SCSI) device emulation of QEMU in versions     prior to 6.2.0-rc0. The device uses the guest supplied stream number unchecked, which can lead to out-of-     bounds access to the UASDevice->data3 and UASDevice->status3 fields. A malicious guest user could use this     flaw to crash QEMU or potentially achieve code execution with the privileges of the QEMU process on the     host. (CVE-2021-3713)

  - A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU. It could occur when the     descriptor's address belongs to the non direct access region, due to num_buffers being set after the     virtqueue elem has been unmapped. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash QEMU, resulting in a     denial of service condition, or potentially execute code on the host with the privileges of the QEMU     process. (CVE-2021-3748)

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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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2021:3635-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 155004

Version 1.4