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Oracle Linux 9 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2024-2135)

high Nessus Plugin ID 195037

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-2135 advisory.

 - Resolves: RHEL-19629 (CVE-2023-6683 qemu-kvm: QEMU: VNC: NULL pointer dereference in qemu_clipboard_request() [rhel-9])
 - Resolves: RHEL-2828 (CVE-2023-42467 qemu-kvm: qemu: denial of service due to division by zero [rhel-9])
 - Resolves: RHEL-516 (CVE-2023-2680 qemu-kvm: QEMU: hcd-ehci: DMA reentrancy issue (incomplete fix for CVE-2021-3750) [rhel-9])
 - Resolves: bz#2149108 (CVE-2022-4172 qemu-kvm: QEMU: ACPI ERST: memory corruption issues in read_erst_record and write_erst_record [rhel-9])
 - Resolves: bz#1951522 (CVE-2021-3507 qemu-kvm: QEMU: fdc: heap buffer overflow in DMA read data transfers [rhel-9.0])

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-2024-2135.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 195037

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2024-2135.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/6/2024

Updated: 11/2/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5088

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-rbd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-curl, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9:4:appstream_base, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-docs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-tools, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::appstream, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-guest-agent, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-device-usb-redirect, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-vga, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-ui-egl-headless, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-blkio, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-audio-pa, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-device-usb-host, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-pr-helper, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-ui-opengl

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: 5/2/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/24/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-3019, CVE-2023-3255, CVE-2023-42467, CVE-2023-5088, CVE-2023-6683