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Oracle Linux 7 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2016-2585)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 94706

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-2585 advisory.

 - Resolves: bz#1359729 (CVE-2016-5403 qemu-kvm: Qemu: virtio: unbounded memory allocation on host via guest leading to DoS [rhel-7.3])
 - Resolves: bz#1340929 (CVE-2016-5126 qemu-kvm: Qemu: block: iscsi: buffer overflow in iscsi_aio_ioctl [rhel-7.3])
 - Resolves: bz#1346982 (Regression from CVE-2016-3712: windows installer fails to start)
 - Resolves: bz#1331413 (EMBARGOED CVE-2016-3710 qemu-kvm: qemu: incorrect banked access bounds checking in vga module [rhel-7.3])
 - Resolves: bz#1298048 (CVE-2016-1714 qemu-kvm: Qemu: nvram: OOB r/w access in processing firmware configurations [rhel-7.3])

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

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-2016-2585.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 94706

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-2585.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/11/2016

Updated: 4/29/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-3712

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-img, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-common, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-tools

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/10/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/11/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1981, CVE-2016-3712

RHSA: 2016:2585