Vulnerabilities > CVE-2010-0430 - Improper Restriction of Operations Within the Bounds of A Memory Buffer vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor

047910
CVSS 7.4 - HIGH
Attack vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
SINGLE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE

Summary

libspice, as used in QEMU-KVM in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (aka RHEV-H or rhev-hypervisor) before 5.5-2.2 and possibly other products, allows guest OS users to read from or write to arbitrary QEMU memory by modifying the address that is used by Cairo for memory mappings.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Redhat
1

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Overflow Buffers
    Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
  • Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
  • Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
  • MIME Conversion
    An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.

Nessus

  • NASL familyRed Hat Local Security Checks
    NASL idREDHAT-RHSA-2010-0476.NASL
    descriptionAn updated rhev-hypervisor package that fixes two security issues, multiple bugs, and adds enhancements is now available. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. The rhev-hypervisor package provides a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor ISO disk image. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is a dedicated Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor. It includes everything necessary to run and manage virtual machines: A subset of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating environment and the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Agent. Note: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is only available for the Intel 64 and AMD64 architectures with virtualization extensions. A flaw was found in the way QEMU-KVM handled erroneous data provided by the Linux virtio-net driver, used by guest operating systems. Due to a deficiency in the TSO (TCP segment offloading) implementation, a guest
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    titleRHEL 5 : rhev-hypervisor (RHSA-2010:0476)
  • NASL familyRed Hat Local Security Checks
    NASL idREDHAT-RHSA-2010-0271.NASL
    descriptionUpdated kvm packages that fix one security issue, multiple bugs, and add enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section. KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. KVM is a Linux kernel module built for the standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel. A flaw was found in the way QEMU-KVM handled erroneous data provided by the Linux virtio-net driver, used by guest operating systems. Due to a deficiency in the TSO (TCP segment offloading) implementation, a guest
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    titleRHEL 5 : kvm (RHSA-2010:0271)

Redhat

advisories
  • rhsa
    idRHSA-2010:0271
  • rhsa
    idRHSA-2010:0476
rpms
  • kmod-kvm-0:83-164.el5
  • kvm-0:83-164.el5
  • kvm-debuginfo-0:83-164.el5
  • kvm-qemu-img-0:83-164.el5
  • kvm-tools-0:83-164.el5
  • rhev-hypervisor-0:5.5-2.2.4.2.el5rhev
  • rhev-hypervisor-pxe-0:5.5-2.2.4.2.el5rhev