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VID 14254
Severity 40
Port 22
Protocol TCP
Class LSC
Detailed Description The remote system does not apply CESA-2019:2863 which is kernel security update. The system which does not apply the update is affected by a buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Linux kernel's vhost functionality that translates virtqueue buffers to IOVs, logged the buffer descriptors during migration. A privileged guest user able to pass descriptors with invalid length to the host when migration is underway, could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the host.

Note: This check solely relied on the firefox RPM version of the remote system to assess this vulnerability, so this might be a false positive.

* References:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023456.html

* Platforms Affected:
CentOS Linux Server (v. 6)
Recommendation Update the affected packages.
Launch the graphical update tool through
System -> Administration -> Software Update

For a command line interface, use the following command to update the operating system:
# yum update
Related URL CVE-2019-14835 (CVE)
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