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FreeBSD : qemu -- denial of service vulnerability in e1000 NIC support (10bf8eed-b14d-11e5-9728-002590263bf5)

low Nessus Plugin ID 87685

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Prasad J Pandit, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports :

Qemu emulator built with the e1000 NIC emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while processing transmit descriptor data when sending a network packet.

A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu instance resulting in DoS.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/04/4

http://www.nessus.org/u?e1dad195

http://www.nessus.org/u?79e560fd

http://www.nessus.org/u?e030733b

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 87685

File Name: freebsd_pkg_10bf8eedb14d11e59728002590263bf5.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Published: 1/4/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:qemu, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:qemu-devel, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:qemu-sbruno, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:qemu-user-static, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 1/2/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-6815