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Debian DSA-2396-1 : qemu-kvm - buffer underflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 57736

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Synopsis

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

Description

Nicolae Mogoreanu discovered a heap overflow in the emulated e1000e network interface card of KVM, a solution for full virtualization on x86 hardware, which could result in denial of service or privilege escalation.

This update also fixes a guest-triggerable memory corruption in VNC handling.

Solution

Upgrade the qemu-kvm packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze8.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/qemu-kvm

https://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2396

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 57736

File Name: debian_DSA-2396.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/31/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qemu-kvm

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/27/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0029

BID: 51642

DSA: 2396