Fedora 21 : qemu-2.1.3-5.fc21 (2015-5482)

high Nessus Plugin ID 82751

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- CVE-2015-1779 vnc: insufficient resource limiting in VNC websockets decoder (bz #1205051, bz #1199572)

- Qemu: PRDT overflow from guest to host (bz #1204919, bz #1205322)

- CVE-2014-8106: cirrus: insufficient blit region checks (bz #1170612, bz #1169454)

- Fix .vdi disk corruption (bz #1199400)

- Don't install ksm services as executable (bz #1192720)

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=1169454

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199572

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204919

http://www.nessus.org/u?fe984418

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 82751

File Name: fedora_2015-5482.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/14/2015

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: 7.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/4/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8106, CVE-2015-1779

FEDORA: 2015-5482