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CentOS 6 : libvirt (CESA-2018:1929)

high Nessus Plugin ID 110651

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for libvirt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link (s) in the References section.

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) :

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

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

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.

The CVE-2018-5748 issue was discovered by Daniel P. Berrange (Red Hat) and Peter Krempa (Red Hat), and the CVE-2018-1064 issue was discovered by Daniel P. Berrange (Red Hat).

Additional Changes :

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 Release Notes and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 Technical Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

Update the affected libvirt packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b32bc5f4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 110651

File Name: centos_RHSA-2018-1929.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/22/2018

Updated: 9/17/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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:centos:centos:libvirt-client, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libvirt-python, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libvirt, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libvirt-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libvirt-lock-sanlock

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/21/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/25/2018

Reference Information

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

RHSA: 2018:1929