The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1664 advisory.

    The libvirt library contains a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of     Linux and other operating systems. In addition, libvirt provides tools for remote management of     virtualized systems.

    Security Fix(es):

    * An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented     speculative execution of Load & Store instructions (a commonly used performance optimization). It relies     on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the fact     that memory read from address to which a recent memory write has occurred may see an older value and     subsequently cause an update into the microprocessor's data cache even for speculatively executed     instructions that never actually commit (retire). As a result, an unprivileged attacker could use this     flaw to read privileged memory by conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks. (CVE-2018-3639)

    Note: This is the libvirt side of the CVE-2018-3639 mitigation.

    Red Hat would like to thank Ken Johnson (Microsoft Security Response Center) and Jann Horn (Google Project     Zero) for reporting this issue.

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

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

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RHEL 6 : libvirt (RHSA-2018:1664)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 110013

Version 1.20

Version 1.19

Version 1.20 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") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411051250
Version 1.19 Apr 28, 2024, 1:01 AM CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2018-3639") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404280101