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Fedora 8 : kvm-60-2.fc8 (2008-1993)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31180

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Ian Jackson discovered that accesses beyond end of qemu emulated disk devices can result in accesses to emulator's virtual memory space accesses and thus can allow user with sufficient privilege in guest (root, as this would need modification to kernel's driver) to break out of VM. http://marc.info/?l =debian-security&m=120343592917055&w=2

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected kvm package.

See Also

https://marc.info/?l

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433560

http://www.nessus.org/u?e9dd3b34

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31180

File Name: fedora_2008-1993.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/26/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kvm

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/25/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0928

CWE: 264

FEDORA: 2008-1993