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Oracle Linux 5 : libvirt (ELSA-2013-0127)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 68698

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2013-0127 advisory.

 [0.8.2-29.0.1.el5]
 - Replaced docs/et.png in tarball
 - remove virshtest from test cases to fix failure in mock build root

 [libvirt-0.8.2-29.el5]
 - Coverity pointed out an use after free in the fix for 816601 (rhbz#772848)

 [libvirt-0.8.2-28.el5]
 - qemu: Rollback on used USB devices (rhbz#816601)
 - qemu: Don't delete USB device on failed qemuPrepareHostdevUSBDevices (rhbz#816601)

 [libvirt-0.8.2-27.el5]
 - qemu: Delete USB devices used by domain on stop (rhbz#816601)

 [libvirt-0.8.2-26.el5]
 - Fix off-by-1 in virFileAbsPath. (rhbz#680289)
 - Fix autostart flag when loading running domains (rhbz#675319)
 - node_device: Avoid null dereference on error (rhbz#772848)
 - util: Avoid null deref on qcowXGetBackingStore (rhbz#772848)
 - docs: Improve virsh domxml-*-native command docs (rhbz#783001)
 - Clarify the purpose of domxml-from-native (rhbz#783001)
 - qemu: Add return value check (rhbz#772821)
 - storage: Avoid mishandling backing store > 2GB (rhbz#772821)
 - util: Avoid PATH_MAX-sized array (rhbz#816601)
 - qemu: Keep list of USB devices attached to domains (rhbz#816601)
 - qemu: Don't leak temporary list of USB devices (rhbz#816601)
 - usb: Create functions to search usb device accurately (rhbz#816601)
 - qemu: Call usb search function for hostdev initialization and hotplug (rhbz#816601)
 - usb: Fix crash when failing to attach a second usb device (rhbz#816601)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libvirt, libvirt-devel and / or libvirt-python packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2013-0127.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 68698

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-0127.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-2693

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-python, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/12/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/16/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2693

BID: 54126

RHSA: 2013:0127