Fedora 23 : qemu-2.4.1-7.fc23 (2016-b49aaf2c56)
high Nessus Plugin ID 89599
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Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
- CVE-2015-8619: Fix sendkey out of bounds (bz #1292757) * CVE-2016-1981: infinite loop in e1000 (bz #1299995) * Fix Out-of-bounds read in usb-ehci (bz #1300234, bz #1299455) * CVE-2016-2197: ahci: NULL pointer dereference (bz #1302952) * Fix gdbstub for VSX registers for ppc64 (bz #1304377) * Fix qemu-img vmdk images to work with VMware (bz #1299185)Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected qemu package.See Also
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283926
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298570
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1299455
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 89599
File Name: fedora_2016-b49aaf2c56.nasl
Version: 1.6
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 3/4/2016
Updated: 1/11/2021
Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:qemu, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Patch Publication Date: 2/21/2016
Reference Information
FEDORA: 2016-b49aaf2c56