Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary 6.4.z Crafted Program resource management

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary 6.4.z (Operating System). Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Crafted Program. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Unquoted Windows search path vulnerability in the QEMU Guest Agent service for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6, HPC Node 6, Server 6, Workstation 6, Desktop Supplementary 6, Server Supplementary 6, Supplementary AUS 6.4, Supplementary EUS 6.4.z, and Workstation Supplementary 6, when installing on Windows, allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted program in an unspecified folder.

The weakness was shared 10/01/2013 with Red Hat as Bug 980757 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2013-2231. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 01/08/2022).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 69010 (Oracle Linux 6 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2013-1100)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (85907) and Tenable (69010).

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 69010
Nessus Name: Oracle Linux 6 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2013-1100)
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OpenVAS ID: 881771
OpenVAS Name: CentOS Update for qemu-guest-agent CESA-2013:1100 centos6
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: redhat.com

Advisory: Bug 980757
Organization: Red Hat
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2013-2231 (🔍)
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X-Force: 85907
Vulnerability Center: 40735 - Qemu on Windows Local Privilege Escalation due to an Unquoted Search Path, High
SecurityFocus: 61388 - QEMU Guest Agent CVE-2013-2231 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Entryinfo

Created: 03/24/2015 15:54
Updated: 01/08/2022 08:31
Changes: 03/24/2015 15:54 (67), 05/06/2017 19:53 (4), 01/08/2022 08:29 (3), 01/08/2022 08:31 (1)
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