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EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : qemu-kvm (EulerOS-SA-2017-1079)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 99945

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the qemu-kvm package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in QEMU's Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator's VNC display driver support the issue could occur when a VNC client attempted to update its display after a VGA operation is performed by a guest. A privileged user/process inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the host with privileges of the QEMU process. (CVE-2016-9603)

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

Solution

Update the affected qemu-kvm package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?384ee549

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 99945

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2017-1079.nasl

Version: 3.14

Type: local

Published: 5/3/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.9

Temporal Score: 9.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:qemu-img, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

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

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9603