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Oracle Linux 8 : virt:kvm_utils (ELSA-2023-12108)

high Nessus Plugin ID 171222

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2023-12108 advisory.

 - A flaw was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device. This flaw allows a crafted guest driver to execute HW commands when shared buffers are not yet allocated, potentially leading to a use-after-free condition. (CVE-2022-1050)

 - A flaw was found in libvirt while it generates SELinux MCS category pairs for VMs' dynamic labels. This flaw allows one exploited guest to access files labeled for another guest, resulting in the breaking out of sVirt confinement. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and integrity.
 (CVE-2021-3631)

 - An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the ATI VGA device emulation of QEMU. This flaw occurs in the ati_2d_blt() routine while handling MMIO write operations when the guest provides invalid values for the destination display parameters. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2021-3638)

 - An integer underflow issue was found in the QEMU VNC server while processing ClientCutText messages in the extended format. A malicious client could use this flaw to make QEMU unresponsive by sending a specially crafted payload message, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2022-3165)

 - An integer overflow and buffer overflow issues were found in the ACPI Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) device of QEMU in the read_erst_record() and write_erst_record() functions. Both issues may allow the guest to overrun the host buffer allocated for the ERST memory device. A malicious guest could use these flaws to crash the QEMU process on the host. (CVE-2022-4172)

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://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2023-12108.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 171222

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2023-12108.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/8/2023

Updated: 9/15/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-1050

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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:oracle:linux:nbdkit-basic-filters, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-basic-plugins, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-curl-plugin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:hivex, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:hivex-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-benchmarking, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-gfs2, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-gobject, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-gobject-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-inspect-icons, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-java, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-java-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-man-pages-ja, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-man-pages-uk, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-rescue, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-rsync, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-tools-c, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-winsupport, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libguestfs-xfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libiscsi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libiscsi-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libiscsi-utils, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libnbd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libnbd-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-admin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-bash-completion, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-client, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-config-network, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-interface, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-network, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-secret, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-disk, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi-direct, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-logical, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-mpath, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-scsi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-daemon-kvm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-dbus, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-docs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-lock-sanlock, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libvirt-nss, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-example-plugins, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-gzip-plugin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-linuxdisk-plugin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-python-plugin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-server, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-ssh-plugin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-vddk-plugin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-xz-filter, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:netcf, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:netcf-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:netcf-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-sys-guestfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-sys-virt, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-hivex, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-hivex, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-libguestfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-libnbd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-libvirt, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-curl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-gluster, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-rbd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-block-ssh, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-core, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-hivex, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ruby-libguestfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:seabios, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:seabios-bin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:seavgabios-bin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sgabios, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:sgabios-bin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:supermin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:supermin-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:virt-dib, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:virt-v2v, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:lua-guestfs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdfuse, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nbdkit-bash-completion

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/8/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/9/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3631, CVE-2021-3638, CVE-2022-1050, CVE-2022-3165, CVE-2022-4172