Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title qemu-kvm-ma security and bug fix update
Informations
Name RHSA-2019:2166 First vendor Publication 2019-08-06
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2019-08-06
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 01

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Problem Description:

An update for qemu-kvm-ma is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64

3. Description:

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm-ma packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM on the IBM z Systems, IBM Power, and 64-bit ARM architectures.

Security Fix(es):

* QEMU: net: ignore packets with large size (CVE-2018-17963)

* QEMU: scsi-generic: possible OOB access while handling inquiry request (CVE-2019-6501)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1636777 - CVE-2018-17963 QEMU: net: ignore packets with large size 1668160 - CVE-2019-6501 QEMU: scsi-generic: possible OOB access while handling inquiry request 1678898 - Run iotests in rhel77 qemu-kvm-ma build %check phase

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019-2166.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
33 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)
33 % CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE/SANS Top 25)
33 % CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 183
Application 3
Application 1
Application 1
Os 4
Os 2
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-87f2ace20d.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-12-01 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1599.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-11-13 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4338.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2020-03-19 13:18:56
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