7.8 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
0.093 Low
EPSS
Percentile
94.7%
Avi Kivity discovered that KVM did not correctly handle certain disk formats. A local attacker could attach a malicious partition that would allow the guest VM to read files on the VM host. (CVE-2008-1945, CVE-2008-2004)
Alfredo Ortega discovered that KVM’s VNC protocol handler did not correctly validate certain messages. A remote attacker could send specially crafted VNC messages that would cause KVM to consume CPU resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2008-2382)
Jan Niehusmann discovered that KVM’s Cirrus VGA implementation over VNC did not correctly handle certain bitblt operations. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to potentially execute arbitrary code on the VM host or crash KVM, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2008-4539)
It was discovered that KVM’s VNC password checks did not use the correct length. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause KVM to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2008-5714).
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu Security Notice USN-776-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(38759);
script_version("1.15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-1945", "CVE-2008-2004", "CVE-2008-2382", "CVE-2008-4539", "CVE-2008-5714");
script_bugtraq_id(23731, 32910);
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"776-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : kvm vulnerabilities (USN-776-1)");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated packages.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related
patches."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Avi Kivity discovered that KVM did not correctly handle certain disk
formats. A local attacker could attach a malicious partition that
would allow the guest VM to read files on the VM host. (CVE-2008-1945,
CVE-2008-2004)
Alfredo Ortega discovered that KVM's VNC protocol handler did not
correctly validate certain messages. A remote attacker could send
specially crafted VNC messages that would cause KVM to consume CPU
resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2008-2382)
Jan Niehusmann discovered that KVM's Cirrus VGA implementation over
VNC did not correctly handle certain bitblt operations. A local
attacker could exploit this flaw to potentially execute arbitrary code
on the VM host or crash KVM, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2008-4539)
It was discovered that KVM's VNC password checks did not use the
correct length. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause KVM
to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2008-5714).
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu 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://usn.ubuntu.com/776-1/"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected kvm and / or kvm-source packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_cwe_id(119, 189, 200, 399);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kvm");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kvm-source");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/05/12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/05/13");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2009-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2009-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("ubuntu.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release");
if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu");
release = chomp(release);
if (! ereg(pattern:"^(8\.04|8\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 8.04 / 8.10", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"kvm", pkgver:"1:62+dfsg-0ubuntu8.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"kvm-source", pkgver:"62+dfsg-0ubuntu8.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"kvm", pkgver:"1:72+dfsg-1ubuntu6.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"kvm-source", pkgver:"72+dfsg-1ubuntu6.1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : ubuntu_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "kvm / kvm-source");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
canonical | ubuntu_linux | kvm | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kvm |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | kvm-source | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kvm-source |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 8.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 8.10 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10 |