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FreeBSD : xen-tools -- HVM qemu unexpectedly enabling emulated VGA graphics backends (0d732fd1-27e0-11e5-a4a5-002590263bf5)

2015-07-1400:00:00
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The Xen Project reports :

When instantiating an emulated VGA device for an x86 HVM guest qemu will by default enable a backend to expose that device, either SDL or VNC depending on the version of qemu and the build time configuration.

The libxl toolstack library does not explicitly disable these default backends when they are not enabled, leading to an unexpected backend running.

If either SDL or VNC is explicitly enabled in the guest configuration then only the expected backends will be enabled.

This affects qemu-xen and qemu-xen-traditional differently.

If qemu-xen was compiled with SDL support then this would result in an SDL window being opened if $DISPLAY is valid, or a failure to start the guest if not.

If qemu-xen was compiled without SDL support then qemu would instead start a VNC server listening on ::1 (IPv6 localhost) or 127.0.0.1 (IPv4 localhost) with IPv6 preferred if available. A VNC password will not be configured even if one is present in the guest configuration.

qemu-xen-traditional will never start a vnc backend unless explicitly configured. However by default it will start an SDL backend if it was built with SDL support and $DISPLAY is valid.

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include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(84693);
  script_version("2.4");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2015-2152");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : xen-tools -- HVM qemu unexpectedly enabling emulated VGA graphics backends (0d732fd1-27e0-11e5-a4a5-002590263bf5)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package in pkg_info output");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"The Xen Project reports :

When instantiating an emulated VGA device for an x86 HVM guest qemu
will by default enable a backend to expose that device, either SDL or
VNC depending on the version of qemu and the build time configuration.

The libxl toolstack library does not explicitly disable these default
backends when they are not enabled, leading to an unexpected backend
running.

If either SDL or VNC is explicitly enabled in the guest configuration
then only the expected backends will be enabled.

This affects qemu-xen and qemu-xen-traditional differently.

If qemu-xen was compiled with SDL support then this would result in an
SDL window being opened if $DISPLAY is valid, or a failure to start
the guest if not.

If qemu-xen was compiled without SDL support then qemu would instead
start a VNC server listening on ::1 (IPv6 localhost) or 127.0.0.1
(IPv4 localhost) with IPv6 preferred if available. A VNC password will
not be configured even if one is present in the guest configuration.

qemu-xen-traditional will never start a vnc backend unless explicitly
configured. However by default it will start an SDL backend if it was
built with SDL support and $DISPLAY is valid."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-119.html"
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/0d732fd1-27e0-11e5-a4a5-002590263bf5.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?c804bfcd"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:xen-tools");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2015/03/13");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/07/11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/07/14");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"xen-tools<4.5.0_6")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_note(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_note(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
freebsdfreebsdxen-toolsp-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:xen-tools
freebsdfreebsdcpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd