The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2294 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):

    * libvirt: NULL pointer dereference after running qemuAgentCommand in qemuAgentGetInterfaces function     (CVE-2019-3840)

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

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

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 7 : libvirt (RHSA-2019:2294)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 127708

Version 1.10