The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:0666 advisory. This update for qemu-kvm provides fixes for the TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA) vulnerability
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 199 |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | CVE-2019-11135 | 14 Nov 201919:15 | – | cve |
![]() | CVE-2019-19338 | 13 Jul 202017:15 | – | cve |
![]() | (RHSA-2020:0666) Moderate: qemu-kvm security and enhancement update | 3 Mar 202013:41 | – | redhat |
![]() | (RHSA-2020:0555) Moderate: virt:8.1 and virt-devel:8.1 security update | 19 Feb 202018:32 | – | redhat |
![]() | (RHSA-2020:0279) Moderate: virt:rhel security update | 29 Jan 202013:42 | – | redhat |
![]() | (RHSA-2020:0366) Important: qemu-kvm security, bug fix, and enhancement update | 4 Feb 202017:46 | – | redhat |
![]() | (RHSA-2019:3842) Important: kernel security update | 12 Nov 201920:16 | – | redhat |
![]() | (RHSA-2019:3936) Important: kpatch-patch security update | 20 Nov 201920:35 | – | redhat |
![]() | (RHSA-2020:0028) Important: kpatch-patch security update | 6 Jan 202013:41 | – | redhat |
![]() | (RHSA-2019:3860) Important: redhat-release-virtualization-host and redhat-virtualization-host update | 12 Nov 201919:09 | – | redhat |
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2020:0666. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(134263);
script_version("1.9");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/11/07");
script_cve_id("CVE-2019-11135");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2020:0666");
script_name(english:"RHEL 7 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2020:0666)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for qemu-kvm.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in
the RHSA-2020:0666 advisory.
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of
architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that
use KVM.
Security Fix(es):
* hw: TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA) (CVE-2019-11135)
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.
Enhancement(s):
* [Intel 7.8 FEAT] MDS_NO exposure to guest - qemu-kvm (BZ#1755332)
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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.");
# https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2020/rhsa-2020_0666.json
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?fdb5b716");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/solutions/tsx-asynchronousabort");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0666");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1753062");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the RHEL qemu-kvm package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:0666.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
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:N/A:N");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-11135");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_cwe_id(203);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vendor_severity", value:"Moderate");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/11/12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/03/03");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/03/06");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:7.6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-img");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-common");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qemu-kvm-tools");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Red Hat Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl", "redhat_repos.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
exit(0);
}
include('rpm.inc');
include('rhel.inc');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || 'Red Hat' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Red Hat');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Red Hat');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (!rhel_check_release(operator: 'eq', os_version: os_ver, rhel_version: '7.6')) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Red Hat 7.6', 'Red Hat ' + 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$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu && 'ppc' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Red Hat', cpu);
var constraints = [
{
'repo_relative_urls': [
'content/aus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/debug',
'content/aus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/optional/debug',
'content/aus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/optional/os',
'content/aus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/optional/source/SRPMS',
'content/aus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/os',
'content/aus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/source/SRPMS',
'content/e4s/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/debug',
'content/e4s/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/highavailability/debug',
'content/e4s/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/highavailability/os',
'content/e4s/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/highavailability/source/SRPMS',
'content/e4s/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/optional/debug',
'content/e4s/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/optional/os',
'content/e4s/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/optional/source/SRPMS',
'content/e4s/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/os',
'content/e4s/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/source/SRPMS',
'content/eus/rhel/computenode/7/7.6/x86_64/debug',
'content/eus/rhel/computenode/7/7.6/x86_64/optional/debug',
'content/eus/rhel/computenode/7/7.6/x86_64/optional/os',
'content/eus/rhel/computenode/7/7.6/x86_64/optional/source/SRPMS',
'content/eus/rhel/computenode/7/7.6/x86_64/os',
'content/eus/rhel/computenode/7/7.6/x86_64/source/SRPMS',
'content/eus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/debug',
'content/eus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/highavailability/debug',
'content/eus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/highavailability/os',
'content/eus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/highavailability/source/SRPMS',
'content/eus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/optional/debug',
'content/eus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/optional/os',
'content/eus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/optional/source/SRPMS',
'content/eus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/os',
'content/eus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/resilientstorage/debug',
'content/eus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/resilientstorage/os',
'content/eus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/resilientstorage/source/SRPMS',
'content/eus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/source/SRPMS',
'content/tus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/debug',
'content/tus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/highavailability/debug',
'content/tus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/highavailability/os',
'content/tus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/highavailability/source/SRPMS',
'content/tus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/optional/debug',
'content/tus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/optional/os',
'content/tus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/optional/source/SRPMS',
'content/tus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/os',
'content/tus/rhel/server/7/7.6/x86_64/source/SRPMS'
],
'pkgs': [
{'reference':'qemu-img-1.5.3-160.el7_6.5', 'sp':'6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'7', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'10'},
{'reference':'qemu-kvm-1.5.3-160.el7_6.5', 'sp':'6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'7', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'10'},
{'reference':'qemu-kvm-common-1.5.3-160.el7_6.5', 'sp':'6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'7', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'10'},
{'reference':'qemu-kvm-tools-1.5.3-160.el7_6.5', 'sp':'6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'7', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'10'}
]
}
];
var applicable_repo_urls = rhel_determine_applicable_repository_urls(constraints:constraints);
if(applicable_repo_urls == RHEL_REPOS_NO_OVERLAP_MESSAGE) exit(0, RHEL_REPO_NOT_ENABLED);
var flag = 0;
foreach var constraint_array ( constraints ) {
var repo_relative_urls = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(constraint_array['repo_relative_urls'])) repo_relative_urls = constraint_array['repo_relative_urls'];
foreach var pkg ( constraint_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;
var cves = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['reference'])) reference = pkg['reference'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['release'])) _release = 'RHEL' + pkg['release'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['sp'])) sp = pkg['sp'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['cpu'])) _cpu = pkg['cpu'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['el_string'])) el_string = pkg['el_string'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['epoch'])) epoch = pkg['epoch'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = pkg['allowmaj'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['exists_check'])) exists_check = pkg['exists_check'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['cves'])) cves = pkg['cves'];
if (reference &&
_release &&
rhel_decide_repo_relative_url_check(required_repo_url_list:repo_relative_urls) &&
(applicable_repo_urls || (!exists_check || 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, cves:cves)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
var subscription_caveat = '\n' +
'NOTE: This vulnerability check contains fixes that apply to\n' +
'packages only available in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux\n' +
'Extended Update Support repository.\n' +
'Access to this repository requires a paid RHEL subscription.\n';
var extra = NULL;
if (isnull(applicable_repo_urls) || !applicable_repo_urls) extra = subscription_caveat + rpm_report_get() + redhat_report_repo_caveat();
else extra = subscription_caveat + rpm_report_get();
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_NOTE,
extra : extra
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'qemu-img / qemu-kvm / qemu-kvm-common / qemu-kvm-tools');
}
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