RHEL 9 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2023:6368)

high Nessus Plugin ID 185130

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6368 advisory.

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: qemu-kvm (8.0.0). (BZ#2180898)

Security Fix(es):

* QEMU: hcd-ehci: DMA reentrancy issue (incomplete fix for CVE-2021-3750) (CVE-2023-2680)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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

http://www.nessus.org/u?269e893b

http://www.nessus.org/u?619e5320

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6368

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1886123

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1934134

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1946716

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1947230

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2040509

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2046606

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2057267

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2058982

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2084442

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2087047

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2090998

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2106726

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2124756

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2174676

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2176702

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2176926

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2179033

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2180076

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2180806

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2180898

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185688

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186725

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2189423

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2196289

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2211634

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213317

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2215819

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2216201

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218644

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2220866

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2225354

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2225439

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2229133

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2229868

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-1218

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 185130

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-6368.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/7/2023

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-2680

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-block-blkio, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-audio-pa, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-block-rbd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-vga, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-usb-redirect, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-block-curl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-usb-host, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-pr-helper, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-ui-opengl, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-ccw, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-ui-egl-headless

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/7/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/13/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-2680

CWE: 416

RHSA: 2023:6368