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Oracle Linux 6 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2011-0534)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 181056

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-0534 advisory.

 - Resolves: bz#698910 (CVE-2011-1750 virtio-blk: heap buffer overflow caused by unaligned requests [rhel-6.1])
 - Resolves: bz#699789 (CVE-2011-1751 acpi_piix4: missing hotplug check during device removal [rhel-6.1])
 - kvm-Fix-CVE-2011-0011-qemu-kvm-Setting-VNC-password-to-e.patch [bz#667976]
 - Resolves: bz#667976 (CVE-2011-0011 qemu-kvm: Setting VNC password to empty string silently disables all authentication [rhel-6.1])

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 qemu-img, qemu-kvm and / or qemu-kvm-tools packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2011-0534.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 181056

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-0534.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/7/2023

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-1751

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-1750

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-tools, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

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: 5/28/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/22/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1750, CVE-2011-1751