FreeBSD : qemu -- stack buffer overflow while parsing SCSI commands (a267cd6c-b0c4-11e5-8d13-bc5ff45d0f28)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 87701

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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 SCSI device emulation support is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow issue. It could occur while parsing SCSI command descriptor block with an invalid operation code.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 87701

File Name: freebsd_pkg_a267cd6cb0c411e58d13bc5ff45d0f28.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 1/4/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

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

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: 1/1/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/23/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5158

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