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Oracle Linux 6 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2017-0621)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 99064

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2017-0621 advisory.

 - Resolves: bz#1420487 (EMBARGOED CVE-2017-2620 qemu-kvm: Qemu: display: cirrus: potential arbitrary code execution via cirrus_bitblt_cputovideo [rhel-6.9])
 - Resolves: bz#1420489 (EMBARGOED CVE-2017-2620 qemu-kvm-rhev: Qemu: display: cirrus: potential arbitrary code execution via cirrus_bitblt_cputovideo [rhel-6.9])
 - kvm-cirrus-fix-oob-access-issue-CVE-2017-2615.patch [bz#1418231 bz#1419417]
 - Resolves: bz#1418231 (CVE-2017-2615 qemu-kvm: Qemu: display: cirrus: oob access while doing bitblt copy backward mode [rhel-6.9])
 - Resolves: bz#1419417 (CVE-2017-2615 qemu-kvm-rhev: Qemu: display: cirrus: oob access while doing bitblt copy backward mode [rhel-6.9])
 - Resolves: bz#1398214 (CVE-2016-2857 qemu-kvm: Qemu: net: out of bounds read in net_checksum_calculate() [rhel-6.9])
 - Resolves: bz#1359725 (CVE-2016-5403 qemu-kvm: Qemu: virtio: unbounded memory allocation on host via guest leading to DoS [rhel-6.9])
 - kvm-vga-fix-banked-access-bounds-checking-CVE-2016-3710.patch [bz#1331408]
 - Resolves: bz#1331408 (CVE-2016-3710 qemu-kvm: qemu: incorrect banked access bounds checking in vga module [rhel-6.9])

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2017-0621.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 99064

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-0621.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/30/2017

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-3712

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-guest-agent, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/28/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/11/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3712

RHSA: 2017:0621