FreeBSD : qemu -- denial of service vulnerability in IDE disk/CD/DVD-ROM emulation (bbc97005-b14e-11e5-9728-002590263bf5)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 87705

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 IDE disk and CD/DVD-ROM emulation support is vulnerable to a divide by zero issue. It could occur while executing an IDE command WIN_READ_NATIVE_MAX to determine the maximum size of a drive.

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/2015/09/10/1

http://www.nessus.org/u?d25a5c1b

http://www.nessus.org/u?5ca203e0

http://www.nessus.org/u?3578dff6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 87705

File Name: freebsd_pkg_bbc97005b14e11e59728002590263bf5.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Published: 1/4/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

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: 9/9/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-6855