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Ubuntu 9.10 : qemu-kvm vulnerability (USN-863-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 43001

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

It was discovered that QEMU did not properly setup the virtio networking features available to its guests. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash QEMU guests which use virtio networking on Linux kernels earlier than 2.6.26.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/863-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 43001

File Name: ubuntu_USN-863-1.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/4/2009

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-arm-static, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kvm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qemu-kvm-extras

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/3/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0741

USN: 863-1