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Oracle Linux 7 : qemu (ELSA-2018-4262)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 180821

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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-2018-4262 advisory.

 - net: ignore packet size greater than INT_MAX (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 28762625] {CVE-2018-17963}
 - pcnet: fix possible buffer overflow (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 28762617] {CVE-2018-17962}
 - rtl8139: fix possible out of bound access (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 28762613] {CVE-2018-17958}
 - ne2000: fix possible out of bound access in ne2000_receive (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 28733338] {CVE-2018-10839}
 - seccomp: set the seccomp filter to all threads (Marc-Andre Lureau) [Orabug: 28576303] {CVE-2018-15746}
 - qga: check bytes count read by guest-file-read (Prasad J Pandit) [Orabug: 28312939] {CVE-2018-12617}
 - CVE-2017-2630: Qemu: nbd: oob stack write in client routine drop_sync (Mark Kanda) [Orabug: 28424694] {CVE-2017-2630}
 - CVE-2017-2633: Qemu: VNC: memory corruption due to unchecked resolution limit (Mark Kanda) [Orabug:
 28424697] {CVE-2017-2633}
 - CVE-2017-7471: Qemu: 9p: virtfs allows guest to change filesystem attributes (Mark Kanda) [Orabug:
 28407849] {CVE-2017-7471}

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-2018-4262.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 180821

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2018-4262.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: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Temporal Score: 6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7471

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-17963

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-block-gluster, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-core, 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-block-iscsi, 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: 10/29/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/15/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2630, CVE-2017-2633, CVE-2017-7471, CVE-2018-10839, CVE-2018-11806, CVE-2018-12617, CVE-2018-15746, CVE-2018-17958, CVE-2018-17962, CVE-2018-17963