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RHEL 7 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2020:4079)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 143069

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4079 advisory.

 - QEMU: slirp: use-after-free in ip_reass() function in ip_input.c (CVE-2020-1983)

 - QEMU: usb: out-of-bounds r/w access issue while processing usb packets (CVE-2020-14364)

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-2020:4079.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?8c8c5bd0

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4079

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1829825

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1837565

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1869201

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1869693

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 143069

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-4079.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/19/2020

Updated: 4/24/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14364

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 9/30/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/22/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14364, CVE-2020-1983

CWE: 416, 787

IAVB: 2020-B-0063-S

RHSA: 2020:4079