A flaw was found in the way QEMU-KVM handled the reloading of fs and gs segment registers when they had invalid selectors. A privileged host user with access to ‘/dev/kvm’ could use this flaw to crash the host (denial of service). (CVE-2010-3698)
The following procedure must be performed before this update will take effect :
Stop all KVM guest virtual machines.
Either reboot the hypervisor machine or, as the root user, remove (using ‘modprobe -r [module]’) and reload (using ‘modprobe [module]’) all of the following modules which are currently running (determined using ‘lsmod’): kvm, ksm, kvm-intel or kvm-amd.
Restart the KVM guest virtual machines.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text is (C) Scientific Linux.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(60913);
script_version("1.5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/14");
script_cve_id("CVE-2010-3698");
script_name(english:"Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL5.x x86_64");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:
"The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security
updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"A flaw was found in the way QEMU-KVM handled the reloading of fs and
gs segment registers when they had invalid selectors. A privileged
host user with access to '/dev/kvm' could use this flaw to crash the
host (denial of service). (CVE-2010-3698)
The following procedure must be performed before this update will take
effect :
1) Stop all KVM guest virtual machines.
2) Either reboot the hypervisor machine or, as the root user, remove
(using 'modprobe -r [module]') and reload (using 'modprobe [module]')
all of the following modules which are currently running (determined
using 'lsmod'): kvm, ksm, kvm-intel or kvm-amd.
3) Restart the KVM guest virtual machines."
);
# https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1012&L=scientific-linux-errata&T=0&P=424
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?b16549b3"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"x-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2010/12/06");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/08/01");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Scientific Linux Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Scientific Linux " >!< release) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "running Scientific Linux");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu >!< "x86_64" && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Scientific Linux", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kmod-kvm-83-164.el5_5.25")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kvm-83-164.el5_5.25")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kvm-qemu-img-83-164.el5_5.25")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"kvm-tools-83-164.el5_5.25")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
fermilab | scientific_linux | x-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux |