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Oracle Linux 7 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2020-1116)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 180667

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2020-1116 advisory.

 - Resolves: bz#1791560 (CVE-2020-7039 qemu-kvm: QEMU: slirp: OOB buffer access while emulating tcp protocols in tcp_emu() [rhel-7.8])
 - Resolves: bz#1771961 (CVE-2019-11135 qemu-kvm: hw: TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA) [rhel-7.8])
 - Resolves: bz#1749735 (CVE-2019-15890 qemu-kvm: QEMU: Slirp: use-after-free during packet reassembly [rhel-7])
 - Resolves: bz#1712703 (CVE-2019-12155 qemu-kvm: QEMU: qxl: null pointer dereference while releasing spice resources [rhel-7])

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-2020-1116.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 180667

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2020-1116.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/7/2023

Updated: 10/23/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-7039

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-common, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-tools

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/6/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/16/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-7039