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Oracle Linux 6 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2012-0050)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 68433

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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-2012-0050 advisory.

 - Resolves: bz#772081 (EMBARGOED CVE-2012-0029 qemu-kvm: e1000: process_tx_desc legacy mode packets heap overflow [rhel-6.2.z])
 - CVE: CVE-2011-4127
 - Resolves: bz#767721 (qemu-kvm: virtio-blk: refuse SG_IO requests with scsi=off (CVE-2011-4127 mitigation) [rhel-6.2.z])
 - CVE: CVE-2011-4127
 - Resolves: bz#767721 (EMBARGOED qemu-kvm: virtio-blk: refuse SG_IO requests with scsi=off (CVE-2011-4127 mitigation) [rhel-6.3])

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 qemu-img, qemu-kvm and / or qemu-kvm-tools packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2012-0050.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 68433

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-0050.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 4/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0029

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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-tools, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm

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: 1/23/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/27/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0029

BID: 51642

RHSA: 2012:0050