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CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: qemu (CVE-2024-6505)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 235188

Synopsis

The remote CBL Mariner host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The version of qemu installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2024-6505 advisory.

 - A flaw was found in the virtio-net device in QEMU. When enabling the RSS feature on the virtio-net network card, the indirections_table data within RSS becomes controllable. Setting excessively large values may cause an index out-of-bounds issue, potentially resulting in heap overflow access. This flaw allows a privileged user in the guest to crash the QEMU process on the host. (CVE-2024-6505)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6505

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 235188

File Name: mariner_CVE-2024-6505.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 5/6/2025

Updated: 5/7/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-6505

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-system-hppa, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-system-aarch64, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-system-avr, x-cpe:/o:microsoft:cbl-mariner, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-system-arm-core, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-system-microblaze, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-system-alpha-core, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-gl, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-system-avr-core, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-block-dmg, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-block-nfs, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-ccw, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-docs, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-system-cris, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-ui-opengl, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-user, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-system-x86-core, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-block-curl, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-ipxe, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-gl, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-tools, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-user-binfmt, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-system-loongarch64-core, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-common, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-tests, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-guest-agent, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-system-hppa-core, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-device-usb-smartcard, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-device-usb-redirect, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-system-microblaze-core, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-system-loongarch64, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-kvm-core, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-system-cris-core, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-system-x86, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-virtiofsd, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-system-m68k-core, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-device-display-virtio-vga-gl, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-system-arm, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-system-m68k, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-ui-curses, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-pr-helper, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-system-aarch64-core, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-block-rbd, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-ui-egl-headless, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-audio-oss, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-audio-alsa, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-system-alpha, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-block-iscsi, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-ui-gtk, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-device-display-vhost-user-gpu, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-device-usb-host, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-device-display-virtio-vga, p-cpe:/a:microsoft:cbl-mariner:qemu-kvm

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/1/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/5/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-6505

IAVB: 2024-B-0086-S