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RHEL 6 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2019:2892)

high Nessus Plugin ID 129332

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM.

Security Fix(es) :

* QEMU: slirp: heap buffer overflow while reassembling fragmented datagrams (CVE-2018-11806)

* QEMU: slirp: heap buffer overflow in tcp_emu() (CVE-2019-6778)

* QEMU: ne2000: integer overflow leads to buffer overflow issue (CVE-2018-10839)

* QEMU: pcnet: integer overflow leads to buffer overflow (CVE-2018-17962)

* QEMU: qxl: NULL pointer dereference while releasing spice resources (CVE-2019-12155)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-11806

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-6778

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-12155

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-17962

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2892

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-10839

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 129332

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2892.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/25/2019

Updated: 4/23/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-11806

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

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-debuginfo, 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: 9/24/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/13/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10839, CVE-2018-11806, CVE-2018-17962, CVE-2019-12155, CVE-2019-6778

RHSA: 2019:2892