Debian DLA-1071-1 : qemu-kvm security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 102805

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in qemu-kvm, a full virtualization solution for Linux hosts on x86 hardware with x86 guests based on the Quick Emulator(Qemu).

CVE-2017-6505

Denial of service via infinite loop in the USB OHCI emulation

CVE-2017-8309

Denial of service via VNC audio capture

CVE-2017-10664

Denial of service in qemu-nbd server, qemu-io and qemu-img.

CVE-2017-11434

Denial of service via a crafted DHCP options string

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u23.

We recommend that you upgrade your qemu-kvm packages.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected kvm, qemu-kvm, and qemu-kvm-dbg packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/08/msg00022.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/qemu-kvm

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 102805

File Name: debian_DLA-1071.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/29/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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:debian:debian_linux:kvm, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qemu-kvm-dbg, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/28/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-10664, CVE-2017-11434, CVE-2017-6505, CVE-2017-8309