Fedora 20 : qemu-1.6.2-4.fc20 (2014-5825)

high Nessus Plugin ID 73818

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fix arm sd warnings with latest kernel (bz #1091548)

- Fix regression in CVE backport that affects openstack (thanks lbezdick)

- Fix guest startup crashes from autotest (bz #1081610)

- Block/image format validation CVE-2014-0142 - 2014-0148 (bz #1078201, bz #1086710, bz #1079140, bz #1086724, bz #1079240, bz #1086735, bz #1078885, bz #1086720, bz #1078232, bz #1086713, bz #1078848, bz #1086717, bz #1078212, bz #1086712)

- CVE-2014-0150: virtio-net: buffer overflow in virtio_net_handle_mac() function (bz #1086775, bz #1078846)

- CVE-2013-4544: vmxnet3: bounds checking buffer overrun (bz #1087513, bz #1087522)

- CVE-2014-2894: out of bounds buffer accesses, guest triggerable via IDE SMART (bz #1087981, bz #1087971)

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=1078201

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1078212

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1078232

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1078846

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1078848

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1078885

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1079140

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1079240

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1087513

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1087971

http://www.nessus.org/u?a47d1447

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 73818

File Name: fedora_2014-5825.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/2/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:qemu, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/1/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4544, CVE-2014-0142, CVE-2014-0143, CVE-2014-0144, CVE-2014-0145, CVE-2014-0146, CVE-2014-0147, CVE-2014-0148, CVE-2014-0150, CVE-2014-2894

BID: 66464, 66472, 66480, 66481, 66483, 66484, 66486, 66821, 66932, 66955

FEDORA: 2014-5825