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Oracle Linux 7 : qemu (ELSA-2022-9123)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 157387

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2022-9123 advisory.

 - Document CVE-2021-4158 and CVE-2021-3947 as fixed (Mark Kanda) [Orabug: 33719302] [Orabug: 33754145] {CVE-2021-3947} {CVE-2021-4158}
 - hw/block/fdc: Kludge missing floppy drive to fix CVE-2021-20196 (Philippe Mathieu-Daude) [Orabug:
 32439466] {CVE-2021-20196}
 - hw/block/fdc: Extract blk_create_empty_drive() (Philippe Mathieu-Daude) [Orabug: 32439466] {CVE-2021-20196}
 - net: vmxnet3: validate configuration values during activate (CVE-2021-20203) (Prasad J Pandit) [Orabug:
 32559476] {CVE-2021-20203}
 - lan9118: switch to use qemu_receive_packet() for loopback (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 32560540] {CVE-2021-3416}
 - pcnet: switch to use qemu_receive_packet() for loopback (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 32560540] {CVE-2021-3416}
 - rtl8139: switch to use qemu_receive_packet() for loopback (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 32560540] {CVE-2021-3416}
 - tx_pkt: switch to use qemu_receive_packet_iov() for loopback (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 32560540] {CVE-2021-3416}
 - sungem: switch to use qemu_receive_packet() for loopback (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 32560540] {CVE-2021-3416}
 - dp8393x: switch to use qemu_receive_packet() for loopback packet (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 32560540] {CVE-2021-3416}
 - e1000: switch to use qemu_receive_packet() for loopback (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 32560540] {CVE-2021-3416}
 - net: introduce qemu_receive_packet() (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 32560540] {CVE-2021-3416}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2022-9123.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 157387

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2022-9123.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/5/2022

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3947

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-block-gluster, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-system-aarch64, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ivshmem-tools, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-block-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-system-aarch64-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-system-x86-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-system-x86, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-block-rbd

Required KB Items: Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/5/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/3/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-20196, CVE-2021-20203, CVE-2021-3416, CVE-2021-3947, CVE-2021-4158

IAVB: 2020-B-0075-S