RHEL 6 : libvirt (RHSA-2018:1929)

high Nessus Plugin ID 110606

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for libvirt.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1929 advisory.

- libvirt: Incomplete fix for CVE-2018-5748 triggered by QEMU guest agent (CVE-2018-1064)

- libvirt: Resource exhaustion via qemuMonitorIORead() method (CVE-2018-5748)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL libvirt package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:1929.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?930329e4

http://www.nessus.org/u?a479f7d3

http://www.nessus.org/u?c064174a

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1929

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1528396

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1550672

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 110606

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-1929.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/19/2018

Updated: 4/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-5748

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-lock-sanlock, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libvirt-python, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 6/19/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/25/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1064, CVE-2018-5748

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2018:1929