openSUSE Security Update : kvm (openSUSE-SU-2011:0510-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 75566

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

By causing a hot-unplug of the pci-isa bridge from within guests the qemu process could access already freed memory. A privileged user inside the guest could exploit that to crash the guest instance or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host (CVE-2011-1751).

The virtio-blk driver did not properly validate read and write request. A privileged user inside the guest could exploit that to cause a heap corruption and crash the guest instance or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host (CVE-2011-1750).

Solution

Update the affected kvm package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689895

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690781

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-05/msg00043.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 75566

File Name: suse_11_3_kvm-110518.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: 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: 7.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:kvm, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.3

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/18/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1750, CVE-2011-1751