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EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.3 : qemu-kvm (EulerOS-SA-2019-1368)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 124746

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the qemu-kvm packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - An integer overflow issue was found in the NE200 NIC emulation. It could occur while receiving packets from the network, if the size value was greater than INT_MAX. Such overflow would lead to stack buffer overflow issue. A user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process, resulting in DoS scenario.(CVE-2018-10839)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected qemu-kvm package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f34e68af

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 124746

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-1368.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 5/10/2019

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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:huawei:euleros:qemu-gpu-specs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:qemu-kvm-common, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:qemu-kvm-tools, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:qemu-seabios, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.5.3

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/5/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10839