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Fedora 16 : qemu-0.15.1-7.fc16 (2012-11305)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 61472

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- CVE-2012-2652: Possible symlink attacks with -snapshot (bz 825697, bz 824919)

 - Fix systemtap tapsets (bz 831763)

 - Fix qmp response race caused by spice server bug (bz 744015)

 - Fix text mode screendumps (bz 819155)

 - Don't renable ksm on update (bz 815156)

 - Fix RPM install error on non-virt machines (bz 660629)

 - Obsolete openbios to fix upgrade dependency issues (bz 694802)

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 qemu package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824919

http://www.nessus.org/u?51fb4ae0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 61472

File Name: fedora_2012-11305.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/10/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:qemu, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/30/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2652

BID: 53725

FEDORA: 2012-11305