The mptsas_process_scsi_io_request function in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with LSI SAS1068 Host Bus emulation support, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving MPTSASRequest objects.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - The mptsas_process_scsi_io_request function in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator), when built with LSI SAS1068 Host     Bus emulation support, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds     write and QEMU process crash) via vectors involving MPTSASRequest objects. (CVE-2016-7423)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201611-11 (QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities)

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

    A privileged user /process within a guest QEMU environment can cause a       Denial of Service condition against the QEMU guest process or the host.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

- CVE-2016-7155: pvscsi: OOB read and infinite loop (bz     #1373463)

  - CVE-2016-7156: pvscsi: infinite loop when building SG     list (bz #1373480)

  - CVE-2016-7156: pvscsi: infinite loop when processing IO     requests (bz #1373480)

  - CVE-2016-7170: vmware_vga: OOB stack memory access (bz     #1374709)

  - CVE-2016-7157: mptsas: invalid memory access (bz     #1373505)

  - CVE-2016-7466: usb: xhci memory leakage during device     unplug (bz #1377838)

  - CVE-2016-7423: scsi: mptsas: OOB access (bz #1376777)

  - CVE-2016-7422: virtio: NULL pointer dereference (bz     #1376756)

  - CVE-2016-7908: net: Infinite loop in mcf_fec_do_tx (bz     #1381193)

  - CVE-2016-8576: usb: xHCI: infinite loop vulnerability     (bz #1382322)

  - CVE-2016-7995: usb: hcd-ehci: memory leak (bz #1382669)

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.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3125-1 advisory.

    Zhenhao Hong discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio module. A privileged attacker inside the     guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service.
    (CVE-2016-5403)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VMWARE VMXNET3 network card emulation support. 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 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-6833,     CVE-2016-6834, CVE-2016-6888)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VMWARE VMXNET3 network card emulation support. 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. This issue only affected Ubuntu     14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-6835)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VMWARE VMXNET3 network card emulation support. A     privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to possibly to obtain sensitive host memory.
    This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-6836)

    Felix Wilhelm discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Plan 9 File System (9pfs) support. A privileged     attacker inside the guest could use this issue to possibly to obtain sensitive host files. (CVE-2016-7116)

    Li Qiang and Tom Victor discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VMWARE PVSCSI paravirtual SCSI bus     emulation support. 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 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu     16.10. (CVE-2016-7155)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VMWARE PVSCSI paravirtual SCSI bus emulation support. 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 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7156,     CVE-2016-7421)

    Tom Victor discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled LSI SAS1068 host bus emulation support. 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 16.10. (CVE-2016-7157)

    Hu Chaojian discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled xlnx.xps-ethernetlite emulation support. 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-2016-7161)

    Qinghao Tang and Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the VMWare VGA module. A privileged     attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    (CVE-2016-7170)

    Qinghao Tang and Zhenhao Hong discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio module. 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 16.10. (CVE-2016-7422)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled LSI SAS1068 host bus emulation support. 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 16.10. (CVE-2016-7423)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB xHCI controller emulation support. 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-2016-7466)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled ColdFire Fast Ethernet Controller emulation support. A     privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of     service. (CVE-2016-7908)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled AMD PC-Net II emulation support. A privileged attacker     inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    (CVE-2016-7909)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio GPU support. A privileged attacker inside the     guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7994)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB EHCI emulation support. A privileged attacker inside     the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. This     issue only affected Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-7995)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB xHCI controller support. 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 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-8576)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Plan 9 File System (9pfs) support. 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 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-8577, CVE-2016-8578)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Rocker switch emulation support. 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-2016-8668)

    It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Intel HDA controller emulation support. A privileged     attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial     of service. (CVE-2016-8909)

    Andrew Henderson discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled RTL8139 ethernet controller emulation support. A     privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in     a denial of service. (CVE-2016-8910)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Intel i8255x ethernet controller emulation support. A     privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in     a denial of service. (CVE-2016-9101)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Plan 9 File System (9pfs) support. A privileged attacker     inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial of     service. (CVE-2016-9102, CVE-2016-9104, CVE-2016-9105)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Plan 9 File System (9pfs) support. A privileged attacker     inside the guest could use this issue to possibly to obtain sensitive host memory. (CVE-2016-9103)

    Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled Plan 9 File System (9pfs) support. A privileged attacker     inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to consume resources, resulting in a denial of     service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-9106)

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
219858	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-7423	Nessus	Misc.	medium
95018	GLSA-201611-11 : QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
94794	Fedora 25 : 2:qemu (2016-3d3218ec41)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
94669	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : QEMU vulnerabilities (USN-3125-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical

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