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AlmaLinux 9 : qemu-kvm (ALSA-2023:5094)

2023-09-1400:00:00
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almalinux 9
qemu-kvm
vulnerability
remote
unauthenticated clients
denial of service

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7.1 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

21.2%

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2023:5094 advisory.

  • A flaw was found in the QEMU built-in VNC server. When a client connects to the VNC server, QEMU checks whether the current number of connections crosses a certain threshold and if so, cleans up the previous connection. If the previous connection happens to be in the handshake phase and fails, QEMU cleans up the connection again, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference issue. This could allow a remote unauthenticated client to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2023-3354)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The package checks in this plugin were extracted from
# AlmaLinux Security Advisory ALSA-2023:5094.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(181440);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/03/15");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2023-3354");
  script_xref(name:"ALSA", value:"2023:5094");
  script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2023-B-0073-S");

  script_name(english:"AlmaLinux 9 : qemu-kvm (ALSA-2023:5094)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote AlmaLinux host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the
ALSA-2023:5094 advisory.

  - A flaw was found in the QEMU built-in VNC server. When a client connects to the VNC server, QEMU checks
    whether the current number of connections crosses a certain threshold and if so, cleans up the previous
    connection. If the previous connection happens to be in the handshake phase and fails, QEMU cleans up the
    connection again, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference issue. This could allow a remote unauthenticated
    client to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2023-3354)

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://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-5094.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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-2023-3354");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
  script_cwe_id(476);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2023/07/11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/09/12");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/09/14");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-guest-agent");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-img");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-audio-pa");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-block-curl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-block-rbd");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-common");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-core");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-ccw");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-vga");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-device-usb-host");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-device-usb-redirect");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-docs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-tools");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-ui-egl-headless");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-ui-opengl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-pr-helper");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:9");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
  script_end_attributes();

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

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2023-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

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

  exit(0);
}


include('rpm.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/AlmaLinux/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || 'AlmaLinux' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'AlmaLinux');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "AlmaLinux release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'AlmaLinux');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^9([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'AlmaLinux 9.x', 'AlmaLinux ' + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item('Host/AlmaLinux/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) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'AlmaLinux', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'qemu-guest-agent-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-guest-agent-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-img-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-img-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-audio-pa-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-audio-pa-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-block-curl-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-block-curl-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-block-rbd-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-block-rbd-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-common-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-common-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-core-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-core-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-ccw-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-ccw-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-vga-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-vga-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-device-usb-host-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-device-usb-host-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-device-usb-redirect-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-device-usb-redirect-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-docs-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-docs-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-tools-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-tools-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-ui-egl-headless-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-ui-egl-headless-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-ui-opengl-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-kvm-ui-opengl-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-pr-helper-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'},
    {'reference':'qemu-pr-helper-7.2.0-14.el9_2.5.alma.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'17'}
];

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 = 'Alma-' + 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 && (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check))) {
    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 / qemu-kvm-audio-pa / etc');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
almalinuxqemu-guest-agentp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-guest-agent
almalinuxqemu-imgp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-img
almalinuxqemu-kvmp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm
almalinuxqemu-kvm-audio-pap-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-audio-pa
almalinuxqemu-kvm-block-curlp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-block-curl
almalinuxqemu-kvm-block-rbdp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-block-rbd
almalinuxqemu-kvm-commonp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-common
almalinuxqemu-kvm-corep-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-core
almalinuxqemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpup-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu
almalinuxqemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-ccwp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-ccw
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7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7.1 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

21.2%