Debian DSA-2909-1 : qemu - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 73625

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Synopsis

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

Description

Michael S. Tsirkin of Red Hat discovered a buffer overflow flaw in the way qemu processed MAC addresses table update requests from the guest.

A privileged guest user could use this flaw to corrupt qemu process memory on the host, which could potentially result in arbitrary code execution on the host with the privileges of the qemu process.

Solution

Upgrade the qemu packages.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.12.5+dfsg-3squeeze4.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 73625

File Name: debian_DSA-2909.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 4/21/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qemu, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/18/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0150

BID: 66821

DSA: 2909

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