Debian DSA-3925-1 : qemu - security update

Medium Nessus Plugin ID 102209

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in qemu, a fast processor emulator :

 - CVE-2017-9524 Denial of service in qemu-nbd server

 - CVE-2017-10806 Buffer overflow in USB redirector

 - CVE-2017-11334 Out-of-band memory access in DMA operations

 - CVE-2017-11434 Out-of-band memory access in SLIRP/DHCP

Solution

Upgrade the qemu packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u2.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=865755

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=869171

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=869173

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=867751

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=869945

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9524

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-10806

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11334

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11434

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/qemu

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3925

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 102209

File Name: debian_DSA-3925.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2017/08/07

Updated: 2018/11/10

Dependencies: 12634

Risk Information

Risk Factor: Medium

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3.0

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:qemu, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

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

Exploit Available: false

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2017/08/04

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-10806, CVE-2017-11334, CVE-2017-11434, CVE-2017-9524

DSA: 3925