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 ALAS2-2023-2061 advisory.

    A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the floppy disk emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while     processing read/write ioport commands if the selected floppy drive is not initialized with a block device.
    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-2021-20196)

    A use-after-free flaw was found in the MegaRAID emulator of QEMU. This issue occurs while processing SCSI     I/O requests in the case of an error mptsas_free_request() that does not dequeue the request object 'req'     from a pending requests queue. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the     host, resulting in a denial of service. Versions between 2.10.0 and 5.2.0 are potentially affected.
    (CVE-2021-3392)

    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)

    An off-by-one error was found in the SCSI device emulation in QEMU. It could occur while processing MODE     SELECT commands in mode_sense_page() if the 'page' argument was set to MODE_PAGE_ALLS (0x3f). A malicious     guest could use this flaw to potentially crash QEMU, resulting in a denial of service condition.
    (CVE-2021-3930)

    A flaw was found in the QXL display device emulation in QEMU. A double fetch of guest controlled values     `cursor->header.width` and `cursor->header.height` can lead to the allocation of a small cursor object     followed by a subsequent heap-based buffer overflow. A malicious privileged guest user could use this flaw     to crash the QEMU process on the host or potentially execute arbitrary code within the context of the QEMU     process. (CVE-2021-4207)

    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)

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-2023-2061)

high Nessus Plugin ID 176677

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Version 1.3 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 1.2 Sep 28, 2023, 8:23 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202309282023
Version 1.1 Jun 6, 2023, 2:12 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202306061412
Version 1.0 Jun 6, 2023, 12:00 AM New Plugin Feed: 202306060000