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Oracle Linux 6 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2016-0997)

🗓️ 18 May 2016 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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Update for qemu-kvm in Oracle Linux 6 with Important security impac

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2016:0997 and 
# Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2016-0997 respectively.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(91211);
  script_version("2.7");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/04/29");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-3710");
  script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2016:0997");

  script_name(english:"Oracle Linux 6 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2016-0997)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the
ELSA-2016-0997 advisory.

    - kvm-vga-fix-banked-access-bounds-checking-CVE-2016-3710.patch [bz#1331407]
    - Resolves: bz#1331407
      (EMBARGOED CVE-2016-3710 qemu-kvm: qemu: incorrect banked access bounds checking in vga module
    [rhel-6.8.z])
    - Resolves: bz#1298046
      (CVE-2016-1714 qemu-kvm: Qemu: nvram: OOB r/w access in processing firmware configurations [rhel-6.8])
    - kvm-pcnet-fix-rx-buffer-overflow-CVE-2015-7512.patch [bz#1286567]
    - Resolves: bz#1286567
      (CVE-2015-7512 qemu-kvm: Qemu: net: pcnet: buffer overflow in non-loopback mode [rhel-6.8])
    - Resolves: bz#1263275
      (CVE-2015-5279 qemu-kvm: qemu: Heap overflow vulnerability in ne2000_receive() function [rhel-6.8])
    - kvm-rtl8139-check-IP-Header-Length-field-CVE-2015-5165.patch [bz#1248763]
    - kvm-rtl8139-check-IP-Total-Length-field-CVE-2015-5165.patch [bz#1248763]
    - kvm-rtl8139-check-TCP-Data-Offset-field-CVE-2015-5165.patch [bz#1248763]

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-0997.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2016-3710");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/05/11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/05/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/05/18");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-guest-agent");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-img");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:qemu-kvm-tools");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Oracle Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2025 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/OracleLinux", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include('rpm.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/OracleLinux')) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux');
var os_release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(os_release) || !pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux)", string:os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux) .*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Oracle Linux');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^6([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux 6', 'Oracle Linux ' + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Oracle Linux', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'6', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'2'},
    {'reference':'qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'6', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'2'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'6', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'2'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'6', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'2'},
    {'reference':'qemu-guest-agent-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'6', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'2'},
    {'reference':'qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'6', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'2'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'6', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'2'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'6', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'2'}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var reference = NULL;
  var _release = NULL;
  var sp = NULL;
  var _cpu = NULL;
  var el_string = NULL;
  var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
  var epoch = NULL;
  var allowmaj = NULL;
  var exists_check = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = 'EL' + package_array['release'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
  if (reference && _release) {
    if (exists_check) {
        if (rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check) && rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
    } else {
        if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
    }
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
      extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'qemu-guest-agent / qemu-img / qemu-kvm / etc');
}

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