The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:0555 advisory.

    The Advanced Virtualization module provides the user-space component for running virtual machines that use     KVM hypervisor in environments managed by Red Hat products.

    Security Fix(es):

    * hw: TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA) (CVE-2019-11135)

    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.

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 8 : virt:8.1 and virt-devel:8.1 (RHSA-2020:0555)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 133825

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Version 1.10 Nov 7, 2024, 5:39 AM 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 Plugin Feed: 202411070539
Version 1.9 Jun 4, 2024, 3:18 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202406040318
Version 1.8 Jun 3, 2024, 7:01 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202406031901
Version 1.7 Jan 23, 2023, 7:12 PM Logic Changes (Added support for repository relative URLs) Plugin Feed: 202301231912