Fedora 21 : qemu-2.1.2-6.fc21 (2014-13993)

high Nessus Plugin ID 79073

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- CVE-2014-7815 vnc: insufficient bits_per_pixel from the client sanitization (bz #1157647, bz #1157641)

- CVE-2014-3689 vmware_vga: insufficient parameter validation in rectangle functions (bz #1153038, bz #1153035) Fix dep on numactl-devel to be build time not install time

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

Solution

Update the affected qemu package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153035

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157641

http://www.nessus.org/u?5e93484a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 79073

File Name: fedora_2014-13993.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:qemu, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/31/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3689, CVE-2014-7815

BID: 70997, 70998

FEDORA: 2014-13993