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EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : kata-containers (EulerOS-SA-2023-1564)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 172691
Synopsis
The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.Description
According to the versions of the kata-containers package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :- An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the QXL display device emulation in QEMU. The qxl_phys2virt() function does not check the size of the structure pointed to by the guest physical address, potentially reading past the end of the bar space into adjacent pages. A malicious guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host causing a denial of service condition. (CVE-2022-4144)
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 kata-containers packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 172691
File Name: EulerOS_SA-2023-1564.nasl
Version: 1.0
Type: local
Family: Huawei Local Security Checks
Published: 3/19/2023
Updated: 3/19/2023
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.6
Temporal Score: 3.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-4144
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.5
Temporal Score: 5.7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/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:kata-containers, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp
Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 3/18/2023
Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/29/2022
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2022-4144