RHEL 6 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2018:2162)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 111000

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for qemu-kvm.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2162 advisory.

- QEMU: vga: OOB read access during display update (CVE-2017-13672)

- hw: cpu: speculative store bypass (CVE-2018-3639)

- Qemu: Out-of-bounds read in vga_draw_text routine (CVE-2018-5683)

- QEMU: cirrus: OOB access when updating VGA display (CVE-2018-7858)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL qemu-kvm package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:2162.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?caece63c

https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/ssbd

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1486560

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1530356

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1553402

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1566890

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2162

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 111000

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-2162.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/11/2018

Updated: 4/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-3639

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-tools, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/10/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/1/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-13672, CVE-2018-3639, CVE-2018-5683, CVE-2018-7858

CWE: 125, 200

RHSA: 2018:2162