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Fedora 23 : qemu-2.4.1-5.fc23 (2016-e9bba2bb01)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 89634

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- CVE-2015-7549: pci: NULL pointer dereference issue (bz #1291138) * CVE-2015-8558: DoS by infinite loop in ehci_advance_state (bz #1291309) * CVE-2015-8666:
 Heap-based buffer overrun during VM migration (bz #1294027) * CVE-2015-8744: vmxnet3: fix crash with short packets (bz #1295440) * CVE-2015-8745: vmxnet3: don't assert reading registers in bar0 (bz #1295442)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected qemu package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270871

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270876

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1277983

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283722

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291137

http://www.nessus.org/u?f22b7de4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 89634

File Name: fedora_2016-e9bba2bb01.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:qemu, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/12/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7549, CVE-2015-8558, CVE-2015-8666, CVE-2015-8744, CVE-2015-8745