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Oracle Linux 9 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2024-12407)

high Nessus Plugin ID 200094

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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-2024-12407 advisory.

 - ui/clipboard: add asserts for update and request (Fiona Ebner) [Orabug: 36323175] {CVE-2023-6683}
 - ui/clipboard: mark type as not available when there is no data (Fiona Ebner) [Orabug: 36323175] {CVE-2023-6683}
 - virtio-net: correctly copy vnet header when flushing TX (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 36154459] {CVE-2023-6693}
 - esp: restrict non-DMA transfer length to that of available data (Mark Cave-Ayland) [Orabug: 36322141] {CVE-2024-24474}
 - net: Update MemReentrancyGuard for NIC (Akihiko Odaki) [Orabug: 35644197] {CVE-2023-3019}
 - net: Provide MemReentrancyGuard * to qemu_new_nic() (Akihiko Odaki) [Orabug: 35644197] {CVE-2023-3019}
 - lsi53c895a: disable reentrancy detection for MMIO region, too (Thomas Huth) [Orabug: 33774027] {CVE-2021-3750}
 - memory: stricter checks prior to unsetting engaged_in_io (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 33774027] {CVE-2021-3750}
 - async: avoid use-after-free on re-entrancy guard (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 33774027] {CVE-2021-3750}
 - apic: disable reentrancy detection for apic-msi (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 33774027] {CVE-2021-3750}
 - raven: disable reentrancy detection for iomem (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 33774027] {CVE-2021-3750}
 - bcm2835_property: disable reentrancy detection for iomem (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 33774027] {CVE-2021-3750}
 - lsi53c895a: disable reentrancy detection for script RAM (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 33774027] {CVE-2021-3750}
 - hw: replace most qemu_bh_new calls with qemu_bh_new_guarded (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 33774027] {CVE-2021-3750}
 - checkpatch: add qemu_bh_new/aio_bh_new checks (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 33774027] {CVE-2021-3750}
 - async: Add an optional reentrancy guard to the BH API (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 33774027] {CVE-2021-3750}
 - memory: prevent dma-reentracy issues (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 33774027] {CVE-2021-3750}
 - hw/scsi/scsi-disk: Disallow block sizes smaller than 512 [CVE-2023-42467] (Thomas Huth) [Orabug:
 35808564] {CVE-2023-42467}
 - tests/qtest: ahci-test: add test exposing reset issue with pending callback (Fiona Ebner) [Orabug:
 35977245] {CVE-2023-5088}
 - hw/ide: reset: cancel async DMA operation before resetting state (Fiona Ebner) [Orabug: 35977245] {CVE-2023-5088}

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-2024-12407.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 200094

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2024-12407.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/4/2024

Updated: 6/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3750

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.4

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-rbd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-curl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-ssh, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-virtiofsd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-guest-agent, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::kvm_utils

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/3/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3750, CVE-2023-3019, CVE-2023-42467, CVE-2023-5088, CVE-2023-6683, CVE-2023-6693, CVE-2024-24474

IAVB: 2024-B-0070