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CentOS 5 : qspice (CESA-2010:0633)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 48911
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Synopsis
The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.Description
Updated qspice packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.
The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a remote display protocol used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux for viewing virtualized guests running on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor, or on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor.
It was found that the libspice component of QEMU-KVM on the host did not validate all pointers provided from a guest system's QXL graphics card driver. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to cause the host to dereference an invalid pointer, causing the guest to crash (denial of service) or, possibly, resulting in the privileged guest user escalating their privileges on the host. (CVE-2010-0428)
It was found that the libspice component of QEMU-KVM on the host could be forced to perform certain memory management operations on memory addresses controlled by a guest. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the guest (denial of service) or, possibly, escalate their privileges on the host. (CVE-2010-0429)
All qspice users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.
Solution
Update the affected qspice packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 48911
File Name: centos_RHSA-2010-0633.nasl
Version: 1.11
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: CentOS Local Security Checks
Published: 8/29/2010
Updated: 1/4/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.0
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qspice-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qspice, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qspice-libs-devel
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list
Patch Publication Date: 8/27/2010
Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/24/2010
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2010-0428, CVE-2010-0429
RHSA: 2010:0633