Debian DSA-3067-1 : qemu-kvm - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 78898

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Synopsis

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

Description

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in qemu-kvm, a full virtualization solution on x86 hardware.

- CVE-2014-3689 The Advanced Threat Research team at Intel Security reported that guest provided parameter were insufficiently validated in rectangle functions in the vmware-vga driver. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to write into qemu address space on the host, potentially escalating their privileges to those of the qemu host process.

- CVE-2014-7815 James Spadaro of Cisco reported insufficiently sanitized bits_per_pixel from the client in the QEMU VNC display driver. An attacker having access to the guest's VNC console could use this flaw to crash the guest.

Solution

Upgrade the qemu-kvm packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u5.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 78898

File Name: debian_DSA-3067.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 11/7/2014

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: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qemu-kvm, 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: 11/6/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3689, CVE-2014-7815

DSA: 3067

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