The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3261-1 advisory.

    Zhenhao Hong discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio GPU device. An attacker inside the guest     could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected     Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-10028, CVE-2016-10029)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the 6300esb watchdog. A privileged attacker inside the     guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-10155)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the i.MX Fast Ethernet Controller. A privileged attacker     inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue     only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7907)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the JAZZ RC4030 device. A privileged attacker inside the     guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-8667)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the 16550A UART device. A privileged attacker inside the     guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-8669)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the shared rings when used with Xen. A privileged attacker     inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or     possibly execute arbitrary code on the host. (CVE-2016-9381)

    Jann Horn discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VirtFS directory sharing. A privileged attacker inside     the guest could use this issue to access files on the host file system outside of the shared directory and     possibly escalate their privileges. In the default installation, when QEMU is used with libvirt, attackers     would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. (CVE-2016-9602)

    Gerd Hoffmann discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Cirrus VGA device when being used with a VNC     connection. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting     in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host. In the default installation, when     QEMU is used with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. (CVE-2016-9603)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller. A privileged     attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    (CVE-2016-9776)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio GPU device. An attacker inside the guest     could use this issue to cause QEMU to leak contents of host memory. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04     LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-9845, CVE-2016-9908)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio GPU device. An attacker inside the guest     could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected     Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-9846, CVE-2016-9912, CVE-2017-5552, CVE-2017-5578,     CVE-2017-5857)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the USB redirector. An attacker inside the guest could     use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu     16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-9907)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB EHCI emulation. An attacker inside the guest could     use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-9911)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VirtFS directory sharing. A privileged attacker inside     the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-9913,     CVE-2016-9914, CVE-2016-9915, CVE-2016-9916)

    Qinghao Tang, Li Qiang, and Jiangxin discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Cirrus VGA device. A     privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of     service. (CVE-2016-9921, CVE-2016-9922)

    Wjjzhang and Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Cirrus VGA device. A privileged     attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service,     or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host. In the default installation, when QEMU is used with     libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. (CVE-2017-2615)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Cirrus VGA device. A privileged attacker inside the     guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute     arbitrary code on the host. In the default installation, when QEMU is used with libvirt, attackers would     be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. (CVE-2017-2620)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VNC connections. An attacker inside the guest could use     this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-2633)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the ac97 audio device. A privileged attacker inside the     guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-5525)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the es1370 audio device. A privileged attacker inside     the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-5526)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the 16550A UART device. A privileged attacker inside the     guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-5579)

    Jiang Xin discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled SDHCI device emulation. A privileged attacker inside     the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly     execute arbitrary code on the host. In the default installation, when QEMU is used with libvirt, attackers     would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. (CVE-2017-5667)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the MegaRAID SAS device. A privileged attacker inside     the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-5856)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the CCID Card device. A privileged attacker inside the     guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-5898)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB xHCI controller emulation. A privileged attacker     inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    (CVE-2017-5973)

    Jiang Xin and Wjjzhang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled SDHCI device emulation. A privileged     attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    (CVE-2017-5987)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB OHCI controller emulation. A privileged attacker     inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to hang, resulting in a denial of service.
    (CVE-2017-6505)

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

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

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201702-28 (QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in QEMU. Please review the       CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A local attacker could potentially execute arbitrary code with       privileges of QEMU process on the host, gain privileges on the host       system, cause a Denial of Service condition, or obtain sensitive       information.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

- CVE-2016-7907: net: imx: infinite loop (bz #1381182)

  - CVE-2017-5525: audio: memory leakage in ac97 (bz     #1414110)

  - CVE-2017-5526: audio: memory leakage in es1370 (bz     #1414210)

  - CVE-2016-10155 watchdog: memory leakage in i6300esb (bz     #1415200)

  - CVE-2017-5552: virtio-gpu-3d: memory leakage (bz     #1415283)

  - CVE-2017-5578: virtio-gpu: memory leakage (bz #1415797)

  - CVE-2017-5667: sd: sdhci OOB access during multi block     transfer (bz #1417560)

  - CVE-2017-5856: scsi: megasas: memory leakage (bz     #1418344)

  - CVE-2017-5857: virtio-gpu-3d: host memory leakage in     virgl_cmd_resource_unref (bz #1418383)

  - CVE-2017-5898: usb: integer overflow in     emulated_apdu_from_guest (bz #1419700)

  - CVE-2017-5987: sd: infinite loop issue in multi block     transfers (bz #1422001)

  - CVE-2017-6058: vmxnet3: OOB access when doing vlan     stripping (bz #1423359)

  - CVE-2017-6505: usb: an infinite loop issue in     ohci_service_ed_list (bz #1429434)

  - CVE-2017-2615: cirrus: oob access while doing bitblt     copy backward (bz #1418206)

  - CVE-2017-2620: cirrus: potential arbitrary code     execution (bz #1425419)

  - Fix spice GL with new mesa/libglvnd (bz #1431905)

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

- CVE-2017-5525: audio: memory leakage in ac97 (bz     #1414110)

  - CVE-2017-5526: audio: memory leakage in es1370 (bz     #1414210)

  - CVE-2016-10155 watchdog: memory leakage in i6300esb (bz     #1415200)

  - CVE-2017-5552: virtio-gpu-3d: memory leakage (bz     #1415283)

  - CVE-2017-5667: sd: sdhci OOB access during multi block     transfer (bz #1417560)

  - CVE-2017-5857: virtio-gpu-3d: host memory leakage in     virgl_cmd_resource_unref (bz #1418383)

  - CVE-2017-5856: scsi: megasas: memory leakage (bz     #1418344)

  - CVE-2017-5898: usb: integer overflow in     emulated_apdu_from_guest (bz #1419700)

  - CVE-2017-5987: sd: infinite loop issue in multi block     transfers (bz #1422001)

  - CVE-2017-6505: usb: an infinite loop issue in     ohci_service_ed_list (bz #1429434)

  - CVE-2017-2615: cirrus: oob access while doing bitblt     copy backward (bz #1418206)

  - CVE-2017-2620: cirrus: potential arbitrary code     execution (bz #1425419)

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

Zhenhao Hong discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio GPU device. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-10028)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the JAZZ RC4030 device. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-8667)

Jann Horn discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VirtFS directory sharing. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to access files on the host file system outside of the shared directory and possibly escalate their privileges. In the default installation, when QEMU is used with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. (CVE-2016-9602)

Gerd Hoffmann discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Cirrus VGA device when being used with a VNC connection. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host. In the default installation, when QEMU is used with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile.
(CVE-2016-9603)

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio GPU device. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to leak contents of host memory. (CVE-2016-9908)

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio GPU device. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-9912, CVE-2017-5552, CVE-2017-5578)

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VirtFS directory sharing. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2016-9914)

Jiang Xin and Wjjzhang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled SDHCI device emulation. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2017-5987)

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB OHCI controller emulation. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to hang, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2017-6505).

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

This update for qemu fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2017-5898: The CCID Card device emulator support was     vulnerable to an integer overflow flaw allowing a     privileged user to crash the Qemu process on the host     resulting in DoS (bsc#1023907).

  - CVE-2017-5857: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support     was vulnerable to a host memory leakage issue allowing a     guest user to leak host memory resulting in DoS     (bsc#1023073).

  - CVE-2017-2620: In CIRRUS_BLTMODE_MEMSYSSRC mode the     bitblit copy routine cirrus_bitblt_cputovideo failed to     check the memory region, allowing for an out-of-bounds     write that allows for privilege escalation (bsc#1024972)

  - CVE-2017-2615: An error in the bitblt copy operation     could have allowed a malicious guest administrator to     cause an out of bounds memory access, possibly leading     to information disclosure or privilege escalation     (bsc#1023004)

  - CVE-2017-5856: The MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter     emulation support was vulnerable to a memory leakage     issue allowing a privileged user to leak host memory     resulting in DoS (bsc#1023053)

  - CVE-2016-9921: The Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support     was vulnerable to a divide by zero issue while copying     VGA data. A privileged user inside guest could have used     this flaw to crash the process instance on the host,     resulting in DoS (bsc#1014702)

  - CVE-2016-9922: The Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support     was vulnerable to a divide by zero issue while copying     VGA data. A privileged user inside guest could have used     this flaw to crash the process instance on the host,     resulting in DoS (bsc#1014702)

  - CVE-2016-10029: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support     was vulnerable to an OOB read issue allowing a guest     user to crash the Qemu process instance resulting in Dos     (bsc#1017081).

  - CVE-2016-10028: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support     was vulnerable to an out of bounds memory access issue     allowing a guest user to crash the Qemu process instance     on a host, resulting in DoS (bsc#1017084).

  - CVE-2016-10155: The virtual hardware watchdog     'wdt_i6300esb' was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue     allowing a privileged user to cause a DoS and/or     potentially crash the Qemu process on the host     (bsc#1021129)

  - CVE-2017-5552: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support     was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue allowing a     guest user to leak host memory resulting in DoS     (bsc#1021195).

  - CVE-2017-5578: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support     was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue allowing a     guest user to leak host memory resulting in DoS     (bsc#1021481).

  - CVE-2017-5526: The ES1370 audio device emulation support     was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue allowing a     privileged user inside the guest to cause a DoS and/or     potentially crash the Qemu process on the host     (bsc#1020589).

  - CVE-2017-5525: The ac97 audio device emulation support     was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue allowing a     privileged user inside the guest to cause a DoS and/or     potentially crash the Qemu process on the host     (bsc#1020491).

  - CVE-2017-5667: The SDHCI device emulation support was     vulnerable to an OOB heap access issue allowing a     privileged user inside the guest to crash the Qemu     process resulting in DoS or potentially execute     arbitrary code with privileges of the Qemu process on     the host (bsc#1022541).

  - CVE-2017-5898: The CCID Card device emulator support was     vulnerable to an integer overflow allowing a privileged     user inside the guest to crash the Qemu process     resulting in DoS (bnc#1023907)

These non-security issues were fixed :

  - Fix name of s390x specific sysctl configuration file to     end with .conf (bsc#1026583)

  - XHCI fixes (bsc#977027)

  - Fixed rare race during s390x guest reboot

  - Fixed various inaccuracies in cirrus vga device     emulation

  - Fixed cause of infrequent migration failures from bad     virtio device state (bsc#1020928)

  - Fixed graphical update errors introduced by previous     security fix (bsc#1016779)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

This update for qemu fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2017-5898: The CCID Card device emulator support was     vulnerable to an integer overflow flaw allowing a     privileged user to crash the Qemu process on the host     resulting in DoS (bsc#1023907).

  - CVE-2017-5857: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support     was vulnerable to a host memory leakage issue allowing a     guest user to leak host memory resulting in DoS     (bsc#1023073).

  - CVE-2017-2620: In CIRRUS_BLTMODE_MEMSYSSRC mode the     bitblit copy routine cirrus_bitblt_cputovideo failed to     check the memory region, allowing for an out-of-bounds     write that allows for privilege escalation (bsc#1024972)

  - CVE-2017-2615: An error in the bitblt copy operation     could have allowed a malicious guest administrator to     cause an out of bounds memory access, possibly leading     to information disclosure or privilege escalation     (bsc#1023004)

  - CVE-2017-5856: The MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter     emulation support was vulnerable to a memory leakage     issue allowing a privileged user to leak host memory     resulting in DoS (bsc#1023053)

  - CVE-2016-9921: The Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support     was vulnerable to a divide by zero issue while copying     VGA data. A privileged user inside guest could have used     this flaw to crash the process instance on the host,     resulting in DoS (bsc#1014702)

  - CVE-2016-9922: The Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA Emulator support     was vulnerable to a divide by zero issue while copying     VGA data. A privileged user inside guest could have used     this flaw to crash the process instance on the host,     resulting in DoS (bsc#1014702)

  - CVE-2016-10029: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support     was vulnerable to an OOB read issue allowing a guest     user to crash the Qemu process instance resulting in Dos     (bsc#1017081).

  - CVE-2016-10028: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support     was vulnerable to an out of bounds memory access issue     allowing a guest user to crash the Qemu process instance     on a host, resulting in DoS (bsc#1017084).

  - CVE-2016-10155: The virtual hardware watchdog     'wdt_i6300esb' was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue     allowing a privileged user to cause a DoS and/or     potentially crash the Qemu process on the host     (bsc#1021129)

  - CVE-2017-5552: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support     was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue allowing a     guest user to leak host memory resulting in DoS     (bsc#1021195).

  - CVE-2017-5578: The Virtio GPU Device emulator support     was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue allowing a     guest user to leak host memory resulting in DoS     (bsc#1021481).

  - CVE-2017-5526: The ES1370 audio device emulation support     was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue allowing a     privileged user inside the guest to cause a DoS and/or     potentially crash the Qemu process on the host     (bsc#1020589).

  - CVE-2017-5525: The ac97 audio device emulation support     was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue allowing a     privileged user inside the guest to cause a DoS and/or     potentially crash the Qemu process on the host     (bsc#1020491).

  - CVE-2017-5667: The SDHCI device emulation support was     vulnerable to an OOB heap access issue allowing a     privileged user inside the guest to crash the Qemu     process resulting in DoS or potentially execute     arbitrary code with privileges of the Qemu process on     the host (bsc#1022541).

  - CVE-2017-5898: The CCID Card device emulator support was     vulnerable to an integer overflow allowing a privileged     user inside the guest to crash the Qemu process     resulting in DoS (bnc#1023907)

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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
99581	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : QEMU vulnerabilities (USN-3261-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	4/21/2017	8/27/2024	critical
97271	GLSA-201702-28 : QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	2/21/2017	6/3/2021	critical
97804	Fedora 25 : 2:qemu (2017-31b976672b)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	3/20/2017	6/3/2021	critical
97865	Fedora 24 : 2:qemu (2017-62ac1230f7)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	3/22/2017	6/3/2021	critical
99686	Ubuntu 17.04 : qemu vulnerabilities (USN-3268-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	4/26/2017	1/12/2023	critical
97791	openSUSE Security Update : qemu (openSUSE-2017-349)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	3/17/2017	6/3/2021	critical
97599	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2017:0625-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	3/8/2017	6/3/2021	critical

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