Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : qemu (MDVSA-2015:210)

High Nessus Plugin ID 83102

Synopsis

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

Description

Updated qemu packages fix security vulnerabilities :

A denial of service flaw was found in the way QEMU handled malformed Physical Region Descriptor Table (PRDT) data sent to the host's IDE and/or AHCI controller emulation. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the system (rhbz#1204919).

It was found that the QEMU's websocket frame decoder processed incoming frames without limiting resources used to process the header and the payload. An attacker able to access a guest's VNC console could use this flaw to trigger a denial of service on the host by exhausting all available memory and CPU (CVE-2015-1779).

Solution

Update the affected qemu and / or qemu-img packages.

See Also

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0149.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 83102

File Name: mandriva_MDVSA-2015-210.nasl

Version: $Revision: 2.1 $

Type: local

Published: 2015/04/28

Modified: 2015/04/28

Dependencies: 12634

Risk Information

Risk Factor: High

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:qemu, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:qemu-img, cpe:/o:mandriva:business_server:1, cpe:/o:mandriva:business_server:2

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

Patch Publication Date: 2015/04/27

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1779

MDVSA: 2015:210