An out-of-bounds read access issue was found in the VGA display emulator built into the Quick emulator (QEMU). It could occur while reading VGA memory to update graphics display. A privileged user/process inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in denial of service situation.(CVE-2017-13672)

A memory leakage issue was found in the I/O channels websockets implementation of the Quick Emulator (QEMU). It could occur while sending screen updates to a client, which is slow to read and process them further. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service on the host and/or potentially crash the QEMU process instance on the host.(CVE-2017-15268)

A use-after-free issue was found in the Slirp networking implementation of the Quick emulator (QEMU). It occurs when a Socket referenced from multiple packets is freed while responding to a message. A user/process could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in denial of service.(CVE-2017-13711 )

Quick Emulator (aka QEMU), when built with the Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support, allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access and QEMU process crash) by leveraging incorrect region calculation when updating VGA display.(CVE-2018-7858)

VNC server implementation in Quick Emulator (QEMU) was found to be vulnerable to an unbounded memory allocation issue, as it did not throttle the framebuffer updates sent to its client. If the client did not consume these updates, VNC server allocates growing memory to hold onto this data. A malicious remote VNC client could use this flaw to cause DoS to the server host.(CVE-2017-15124)

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions (a commonly used performance optimization). It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the fact that memory read from address to which a recent memory write has occurred may see an older value and subsequently cause an update into the microprocessor's data cache even for speculatively executed instructions that never actually commit (retire). As a result, an unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to read privileged memory by conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks.(CVE-2018-3639)

An out-of-bounds read access issue was found in the VGA emulator of QEMU. It could occur in vga_draw_text routine, while updating display area for a vnc client. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS.(CVE-2018-5683)

An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm-rhev packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM in environments managed by Red Hat products.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version:
qemu-kvm-rhev (2.10.0). (BZ#1470749)

Security Fix(es) :

* Qemu: stack-based buffer overflow in NBD server triggered via long export name (CVE-2017-15118)

* Qemu: DoS via large option request (CVE-2017-15119)

* Qemu: vga: OOB read access during display update (CVE-2017-13672)

* Qemu: vga: reachable assert failure during display update (CVE-2017-13673)

* Qemu: Slirp: use-after-free when sending response (CVE-2017-13711)

* Qemu: memory exhaustion through framebuffer update request message in VNC server (CVE-2017-15124)

* Qemu: I/O: potential memory exhaustion via websock connection to VNC (CVE-2017-15268)

* Qemu: Out-of-bounds read in vga_draw_text routine (CVE-2018-5683)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank David Buchanan for reporting CVE-2017-13672 and CVE-2017-13673; Wjjzhang (Tencent.com) for reporting CVE-2017-13711; and Jiang Xin and Lin ZheCheng for reporting CVE-2018-5683. The CVE-2017-15118 and CVE-2017-15119 issues were discovered by Eric Blake (Red Hat) and the CVE-2017-15124 issue was discovered by Daniel Berrange (Red Hat).

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2018:0816 :

An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link (s) in the References section.

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM.

Security Fix(es) :

* Qemu: vga: OOB read access during display update (CVE-2017-13672)

* Qemu: Slirp: use-after-free when sending response (CVE-2017-13711)

* Qemu: memory exhaustion through framebuffer update request message in VNC server (CVE-2017-15124)

* Qemu: I/O: potential memory exhaustion via websock connection to VNC (CVE-2017-15268)

* Qemu: Out-of-bounds read in vga_draw_text routine (CVE-2018-5683)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank David Buchanan for reporting CVE-2017-13672; Wjjzhang (Tencent.com) for reporting CVE-2017-13711;
and Jiang Xin and Lin ZheCheng for reporting CVE-2018-5683. The CVE-2017-15124 issue was discovered by Daniel Berrange (Red Hat).

Additional Changes :

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link (s) in the References section.

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM.

Security Fix(es) :

* Qemu: vga: OOB read access during display update (CVE-2017-13672)

* Qemu: Slirp: use-after-free when sending response (CVE-2017-13711)

* Qemu: memory exhaustion through framebuffer update request message in VNC server (CVE-2017-15124)

* Qemu: I/O: potential memory exhaustion via websock connection to VNC (CVE-2017-15268)

* Qemu: Out-of-bounds read in vga_draw_text routine (CVE-2018-5683)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank David Buchanan for reporting CVE-2017-13672; Wjjzhang (Tencent.com) for reporting CVE-2017-13711;
and Jiang Xin and Lin ZheCheng for reporting CVE-2018-5683. The CVE-2017-15124 issue was discovered by Daniel Berrange (Red Hat).

Additional Changes :

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - Qemu: net: buffer overflow in MIPSnet emulator (CVE-2016-4002)

  - The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.0 does not check whether kernel addresses are specified     during allocation of memory slots for use in a guest's physical address space, which allows local users to     gain privileges or obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted application, related to     arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h and virt/kvm/kvm_main.c. (CVE-2013-1943)

  - Integer overflow in the VNC display driver in QEMU before 2.1.0 allows attachers to cause a denial of     service (process crash) via a CLIENT_CUT_TEXT message, which triggers an infinite loop. (CVE-2015-5239)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

According to the versions of the qemu-kvm packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - The imx_fec_do_tx function in hw/net/imx_fec.c in QEMU     (aka Quick Emulator) does not properly limit the buffer     descriptor count when transmitting packets, which     allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial     of service (infinite loop and QEMU process crash) via     vectors involving a buffer descriptor with a length of     0 and crafted values in bd.flags.(CVE-2016-7907)

  - Stack-based buffer overflow in hw/usb/redirect.c in     QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users     to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) via     vectors related to logging debug     messages.(CVE-2017-10806)

  - The dhcp_decode function in slirp/bootp.c in QEMU (aka     Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS users to cause a     denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process     crash) via a crafted DHCP options     string.(CVE-2017-11434)

  - A use-after-free issue was found in the Slirp     networking implementation of the Quick emulator (QEMU).
    It occurs when a Socket referenced from multiple     packets is freed while responding to a message. A     user/process could use this flaw to crash the QEMU     process on the host resulting in denial of     service.(CVE-2017-13711)

  - Buffer overflow in the 'megasas_mmio_write' function in     Qemu 2.9.0 allows remote attackers to have unspecified     impact via unknown vectors.(CVE-2017-8380)

  - A heap buffer overflow issue was found in the way SLiRP     networking back-end in QEMU processes fragmented     packets. It could occur while reassembling the     fragmented datagrams of an incoming packet. A     privileged user/process inside guest could use this     flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in DoS or     potentially leverage it to execute arbitrary code on     the host with privileges of the QEMU     process.(CVE-2018-11806)

  - qemu-seccomp.c in QEMU might allow local OS guest users     to cause a denial of service (guest crash) by     leveraging mishandling of the seccomp policy for     threads other than the main thread.(CVE-2018-15746)

  - An integer overflow issue was found in the RTL8139 NIC     emulation in QEMU. It could occur while receiving     packets over the network if the size value is greater     than INT_MAX. Such overflow would lead to stack buffer     overflow issue. A user inside guest could use this flaw     to crash the QEMU process, resulting in DoS     scenario.(CVE-2018-17958)

  - An integer overflow issue was found in the AMD PC-Net     II NIC emulation in QEMU. It could occur while     receiving packets, if the size value was greater than     INT_MAX. Such overflow would lead to stack buffer     overflow issue. A user inside guest could use this flaw     to crash the QEMU process resulting in     DoS.(CVE-2018-17962)

  - A heap buffer overflow issue was found in the     load_device_tree() function of QEMU, which is invoked     to load a device tree blob at boot time. It occurs due     to device tree size manipulation before buffer     allocation, which could overflow a signed int type. A     user/process could use this flaw to potentially execute     arbitrary code on a host system with privileges of the     QEMU process.(CVE-2018-20815)

  - interface_release_resource in hw/display/qxl.c in QEMU     3.1.x through 4.0.0 has a NULL pointer     dereference.(CVE-2019-12155)

  - qemu-bridge-helper.c in QEMU 3.1 and 4.0.0 does not     ensure that a network interface name (obtained from     bridge.conf or a --br=bridge option) is limited to the     IFNAMSIZ size, which can lead to an ACL     bypass.(CVE-2019-13164)

  - A heap buffer overflow issue was found in the SLiRP     networking implementation of the QEMU emulator. This     flaw occurs in the ip_reass() routine while     reassembling incoming packets if the first fragment is     bigger than the m->m_dat[] buffer. An attacker could     use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host,     resulting in a Denial of Service or potentially     executing arbitrary code with privileges of the QEMU     process.(CVE-2019-14378)

  - tcp_emu in slirp/tcp_subr.c (aka slirp/src/tcp_subr.c)     in QEMU 3.0.0 uses uninitialized data in an snprintf     call, leading to Information disclosure.(CVE-2019-9824)

  - An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was found in the     SLiRP networking implementation of the QEMU emulator.
    This flaw occurs in the icmp6_send_echoreply() routine     while replying to an ICMP echo request, also known as     ping. This flaw allows a malicious guest to leak the     contents of the host memory, resulting in possible     information disclosure.(CVE-2020-10756)

  - A heap buffer overflow issue was found in the SLiRP     networking implementation of the QEMU emulator. This     flaw occurs in the tcp_emu() routine while emulating     IRC and other protocols. An attacker could use this     flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting     in a denial of service or potential execution of     arbitrary code with privileges of the QEMU     process.(CVE-2020-7039)

  - An out-of-bound write access flaw was found in the way     QEMU loads ROM contents at boot time. This flaw occurs     in the rom_copy() routine while loading the contents of     a 32-bit -kernel image into memory. Running an     untrusted -kernel image may load contents at arbitrary     memory locations, potentially leading to code execution     with the privileges of the QEMU     process.(CVE-2020-13765)

  - A use-after-free flaw was found in the USB(xHCI/eHCI)     controller emulators of QEMU. This flaw occurs while     setting up the USB packet as a usb_packet_map() routine     and returns an error that was not checked. This flaw     allows a guest user or process to crash the QEMU     process, resulting in a denial of     service.(CVE-2020-25084)

  - An infinite loop flaw was found in the USB OHCI     controller emulator of QEMU. This flaw occurs while     servicing OHCI isochronous transfer descriptors (TD) in     the ohci_service_iso_td routine, as it retires a TD if     it has passed its time frame. It does not check if the     TD was already processed and holds an error code in     TD_CC. This issue may happen if the TD list has a loop.
    This flaw allows a guest user or process to consume CPU     cycles on the host, resulting in a denial of     service.(CVE-2020-25625)

  - A reachable assertion issue was found in the USB EHCI     emulation code of QEMU. It could occur while processing     USB requests due to missing handling of DMA memory map     failure. A malicious privileged user within the guest     may abuse this flaw to send bogus USB requests and     crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a     denial of service.(CVE-2020-25723)

  - A potential directory traversal issue was found in the     tftp server of the SLiRP user-mode networking     implementation used by QEMU. It could occur on a     Windows host, as it allows the use of both forward     ('/') and backward slash('\') tokens as separators in a     file path. A user able to access the tftp server could     use this flaw to access undue files by using relative     paths.(CVE-2020-7211)

  - An out-of-bounds read/write access flaw was found in     the USB emulator of the QEMU in versions before 5.2.0.
    This issue occurs while processing USB packets from a     guest when USBDevice 'setup_len' exceeds its     'data_buf[4096]' in the do_token_in, do_token_out     routines. This flaw allows a guest user to crash the     QEMU process, resulting in a denial of service, or the     potential execution of arbitrary code with the     privileges of the QEMU process on the     host.(CVE-2020-14364)

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
110451	Amazon Linux 2 : qemu-kvm (ALAS-2018-1034) (Spectre)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	6/12/2018	4/5/2019	high
109070	RHEL 7 : Virtualization (RHSA-2018:1104)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	4/17/2018	10/24/2019	critical
109106	Oracle Linux 7 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2018-0816)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	4/18/2018	9/27/2019	high
109372	CentOS 7 : qemu-kvm (CESA-2018:0816)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	4/27/2018	12/31/2019	high
199963	RHEL 6 : kvm (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	6/3/2024	6/3/2024	critical
151383	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.2 : qemu-kvm (EulerOS-SA-2021-2166)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	7/6/2021	12/11/2023	critical

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