RHEL 7 : qemu-kvm-rhev (RHSA-2020:1300)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 135173

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1300 advisory.

- QEMU: block: iscsi: OOB heap access via an unexpected response of iSCSI Server (CVE-2020-1711)

- QEMU: slirp: OOB buffer access while emulating tcp protocols in tcp_emu() (CVE-2020-7039)

- QEMU: Slirp: potential OOB access due to unsafe snprintf() usages (CVE-2020-8608)

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 affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1711

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-7039

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8608

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1300

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1791551

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1794290

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1798453

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 135173

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1300.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/2/2020

Updated: 1/23/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8608

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1711

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-img-rhev, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-common-rhev, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-rhev, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-tools-rhev

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/2/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/16/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-1711, CVE-2020-7039, CVE-2020-8608

CWE: 122

RHSA: 2020:1300