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RHEL 6 : xorg-x11-drv-qxl (RHSA-2013:0218)

low Nessus Plugin ID 64392

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An updated xorg-x11-drv-qxl package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

The xorg-x11-drv-qxl package provides an X11 video driver for the QEMU QXL video accelerator. This driver makes it possible to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as a guest operating system under the KVM kernel module and the QEMU multi-platform emulator, using the SPICE protocol.

A flaw was found in the way the host's qemu-kvm qxl driver and the guest's X.Org qxl driver interacted when a SPICE connection terminated. A user able to initiate a SPICE connection to a guest could use this flaw to make the guest temporarily unavailable or, potentially (if the sysctl kernel.softlockup_panic variable was set to '1' in the guest), crash the guest. (CVE-2013-0241)

All users of xorg-x11-drv-qxl are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue. All running X.Org server instances using the qxl driver must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected xorg-x11-drv-qxl and / or xorg-x11-drv-qxl-debuginfo packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0218

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-0241

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 64392

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2013-0218.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/1/2013

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xorg-x11-drv-qxl, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xorg-x11-drv-qxl-debuginfo

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/31/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/12/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0241

RHSA: 2013:0218