Debian DSA-1284-1 : qemu - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 25151

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the QEMU processor emulator, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2007-1320 Tavis Ormandy discovered that a memory management routine of the Cirrus video driver performs insufficient bounds checking, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code through a heap overflow.

- CVE-2007-1321 Tavis Ormandy discovered that the NE2000 network driver and the socket code perform insufficient input validation, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code through a heap overflow.

- CVE-2007-1322 Tavis Ormandy discovered that the 'icebp' instruction can be abused to terminate the emulation, resulting in denial of service.

- CVE-2007-1323 Tavis Ormandy discovered that the NE2000 network driver and the socket code perform insufficient input validation, which might allow the execution of arbitrary code through a heap overflow.

- CVE-2007-1366 Tavis Ormandy discovered that the 'aam' instruction can be abused to crash qemu through a division by zero, resulting in denial of service.

Solution

Upgrade the qemu packages.

For the oldstable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.6.1+20050407-1sarge1.

For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.2-4etch1.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 25151

File Name: debian_DSA-1284.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 5/3/2007

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qemu, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 5/1/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-1320, CVE-2007-1321, CVE-2007-1322, CVE-2007-1366, CVE-2007-2893, CVE-2007-5729, CVE-2007-5730

CWE: 119, 189

DSA: 1284

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