The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1104 advisory.

    KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of     architectures. The qemu-kvm-rhev packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines     that use KVM in environments managed by Red Hat products.

    The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: qemu-kvm-rhev (2.10.0).
    (BZ#1470749)

    Security Fix(es):

    * Qemu: stack buffer overflow in NBD server triggered via long export name (CVE-2017-15118)

    * Qemu: DoS via large option request (CVE-2017-15119)

    * Qemu: vga: OOB read access during display update (CVE-2017-13672)

    * Qemu: vga: reachable assert failure during display update (CVE-2017-13673)

    * Qemu: Slirp: use-after-free when sending response (CVE-2017-13711)

    * Qemu: memory exhaustion through framebuffer update request message in VNC server (CVE-2017-15124)

    * Qemu: I/O: potential memory exhaustion via websock connection to VNC (CVE-2017-15268)

    * Qemu: Out-of-bounds read in vga_draw_text routine (CVE-2018-5683)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Red Hat would like to thank David Buchanan for reporting CVE-2017-13672 and CVE-2017-13673; Wjjzhang     (Tencent.com) for reporting CVE-2017-13711; and Jiang Xin and Lin ZheCheng for reporting CVE-2018-5683.
    The CVE-2017-15118 and CVE-2017-15119 issues were discovered by Eric Blake (Red Hat) and the     CVE-2017-15124 issue was discovered by Daniel Berrange (Red Hat).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 7 : qemu-kvm-rhev (RHSA-2018:1104)

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Version 1.11 Nov 5, 2024, 12:50 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202411051250
Version 1.10 Oct 31, 2024, 10:05 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 7.5) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P") CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2017-15118") Plugin Feed: 202410311005