CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
26.7%
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in qemu-kvm, a full virtualization solution on x86 hardware based on Quick Emulator(Qemu).
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :
CVE-2016-7909
Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the AMD PC-Net II emulator support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while receiving packets via pcnet_receive().
A privileged user/process inside guest could use this issue to crash the Qemu process on the host leading to DoS.
CVE-2016-8909
Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the Intel HDA controller emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while processing the DMA buffer stream while doing data transfer in ‘intel_hda_xfer’.
A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to consume excessive CPU cycles on the host, resulting in DoS.
CVE-2016-8910
Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the RTL8139 ethernet controller emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while transmitting packets in C+ mode of operation.
A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to consume excessive CPU cycles on the host, resulting in DoS situation.
Further issues fixed where the CVE requests are pending :
Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the i8255x (PRO100) NIC emulation support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while unplugging the device, and doing so repeatedly would result in leaking host memory affecting, other services on the host.
A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to cause a DoS on the host and/or potentially crash the Qemu process on the host.
Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VirtFS, host directory sharing via Plan 9 File System(9pfs) support, is vulnerable to a several memory leakage issues.
A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to leak the host memory bytes resulting in DoS for other services.
Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VirtFS, host directory sharing via Plan 9 File System(9pfs) support, is vulnerable to an integer overflow issue. It could occur by accessing xattributes values.
A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu process instance resulting in DoS.
Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VirtFS, host directory sharing via Plan 9 File System(9pfs) support, is vulnerable to memory leakage issue. It could occur while creating extended attribute via ‘Txattrcreate’ message.
A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to leak host memory, thus affecting other services on the host and/or potentially crash the Qemu process on the host.
For Debian 7 ‘Wheezy’, these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u18.
We recommend that you upgrade your qemu-kvm packages.
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-689-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(94411);
script_version("2.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-7909", "CVE-2016-8909", "CVE-2016-8910");
script_name(english:"Debian DLA-689-1 : qemu-kvm security update");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated packages.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in qemu-kvm, a full
virtualization solution on x86 hardware based on Quick Emulator(Qemu).
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
following problems :
CVE-2016-7909
Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the AMD PC-Net II emulator support is
vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while receiving
packets via pcnet_receive().
A privileged user/process inside guest could use this issue
to crash the Qemu process on the host leading to DoS.
CVE-2016-8909
Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the Intel HDA controller emulation
support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while
processing the DMA buffer stream while doing data transfer in
'intel_hda_xfer'.
A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to
consume excessive CPU cycles on the host, resulting in DoS.
CVE-2016-8910
Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the RTL8139 ethernet controller
emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could
occur while transmitting packets in C+ mode of operation.
A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to
consume excessive CPU cycles on the host, resulting in DoS
situation.
Further issues fixed where the CVE requests are pending :
- Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the i8255x (PRO100) NIC
emulation support is vulnerable to a memory leakage
issue. It could occur while unplugging the device, and
doing so repeatedly would result in leaking host memory
affecting, other services on the host.
A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to
cause a DoS on the host and/or potentially crash the
Qemu process on the host.
- Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VirtFS, host
directory sharing via Plan 9 File System(9pfs) support,
is vulnerable to a several memory leakage issues.
A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to
leak the host memory bytes resulting in DoS for other
services.
- Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VirtFS, host
directory sharing via Plan 9 File System(9pfs) support,
is vulnerable to an integer overflow issue. It could
occur by accessing xattributes values.
A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to
crash the Qemu process instance resulting in DoS.
- Quick Emulator(Qemu) built with the VirtFS, host
directory sharing via Plan 9 File System(9pfs) support,
is vulnerable to memory leakage issue. It could occur
while creating extended attribute via 'Txattrcreate'
message.
A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to
leak host memory, thus affecting other services on the
host and/or potentially crash the Qemu process on the
host.
For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version
1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u18.
We recommend that you upgrade your qemu-kvm packages.
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description
block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted
to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without
introducing additional issues."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/10/msg00046.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/qemu-kvm"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Upgrade the affected kvm, qemu-kvm, and qemu-kvm-dbg packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/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:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kvm");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qemu-kvm");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qemu-kvm-dbg");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/10/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/10/30");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/10/31");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"kvm", reference:"1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u18")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"qemu-kvm", reference:"1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u18")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"qemu-kvm-dbg", reference:"1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u18")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
26.7%