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 ALAS2-2023-2148 advisory.

  - A potential stack overflow via infinite loop issue was found in various NIC emulators of QEMU in versions     up to and including 5.2.0. The issue occurs in loopback mode of a NIC wherein reentrant DMA checks get     bypassed. A guest user/process may use this flaw to consume CPU cycles or crash the QEMU process on the     host resulting in DoS scenario. (CVE-2021-3416)

  - A vulnerability in the lsi53c895a device affects the latest version of qemu. A DMA-MMIO reentrancy problem     may lead to memory corruption bugs like stack overflow or use-after-free. (CVE-2023-0330)

  - A potential stack overflow via infinite loop issue was found in various NIC emulators of QEMU in versions     up to and including 5.2.0. The issue occurs in loopback mode of a NIC wherein reentrant DMA checks get     bypassed. A guest user/process may use this flaw to consume CPU cycles or crash the QEMU process on the     host resulting in DoS scenario. (CVE-2021-3416) (CVE-2023-2861)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Detections

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Amazon Linux 2 : qemu (ALAS-2023-2148)

high Nessus Plugin ID 178497

Version 1.5