FreeBSD : qemu -- denial of service vulnerability in MegaRAID SAS HBA emulation (b3f9f8ef-b1bb-11e5-9728-002590263bf5)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 87703

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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 MegaRAID SAS HBA emulation support is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow issue. It occurs while processing the SCSI controller's CTRL_GET_INFO command. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process instance resulting in DoS.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 87703

File Name: freebsd_pkg_b3f9f8efb1bb11e59728002590263bf5.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 1/4/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/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: 1/3/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/21/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8613

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