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RHEL 6 : virtio-win (RHSA-2013:1101)

high Nessus Plugin ID 69012

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated virtio-win package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important 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 virtio-win package provides paravirtualized network drivers for most Microsoft Windows operating systems. Paravirtualized drivers are virtualization-aware drivers used by fully virtualized guests running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

An unquoted search path flaw was found in the way the QEMU Guest Agent service installation was performed on Windows. Depending on the permissions of the directories in the unquoted search path, a local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to have a binary of their choosing executed with SYSTEM privileges. (CVE-2013-2231)

This issue was discovered by Lev Veyde of Red Hat.

Users of virtio-win are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which corrects this issue.

Solution

Update the affected virtio-win package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1101

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-2231

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 69012

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2013-1101.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/23/2013

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: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:virtio-win, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/22/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/1/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2231

RHSA: 2013:1101